Passage 1Finland’s finance minis

Passage 1
Finland’s finance minister recently made a bold promise to Europe’s 16m unemployed. His country’s presidency of the EU, which starts on July 1st, will be almost unique: it will be marked by no new job-creation schemes.
Europe’s unemployment, the central bankers declare, is nothing do with macroeconomic policy: it is solely a “structural” problem. This is nonsense. Some of Europe’s unemployment is cyclical, meaning that it could be cut by faster economic growth without sparking inflation. For example, Germany’s unemployment rate is 10.6%. The IMF estimates its structural rate at 8.9%. Faster growth could reduce the gap. Even so the bulk of Europe’s unemployment is structural. So is the European Central Bank right to say that macroeconomic policy cannot affect it?
Well actually, no. Europe’s high structural unemployment cannot be blamed on labor-market rigidities(僵化) alone. Its labor markets were as just as ossified 20 years ago, yet joblessness was then far lower. However, there is a danger that, when labor markets are gummed up, a cyclical rise in unemployment can turn into a structural one——making it impervious(不受影响的) to an economic upturn. For example, strict employment-protection laws make it hard for workers who lose their jobs to find new ones. The longer they stayed unemployed, the more their skill rust and the less employers are likely to hire them. Unable to compete effectively for jobs, they no longer help retrain pay demands: They have become “structurally” unemployed.
46.The writer thinks that macroeconomic policy can affect unemployment.
A、True
B、False
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:根据文章内容，作者明确表示欧洲中央银行认为宏观经济政策不能影响结构性失业是错误的。文章中指出，虽然欧洲的高结构性失业不能完全归咎于劳动市场的僵化，但劳动市场的僵化确实存在问题。作者提到，当劳动市场出现问题时，周期性的失业可能会转变为结构性的失业，这使得失业问题对经济复苏不再敏感。此外，作者还提到了严格的就业保护法律使得失业者难以找到新工作，随着失业时间的延长，他们的技能会退化，雇主也不太可能雇佣他们，最终导致他们成为"结构性"失业者。因此，作者认为宏观经济政策确实可以影响失业，选项A是正确的。