Day 164|耐力&力量【德国五月失业率上升】

原文摘自每日英语听力“经济学人”频道6.14内容。

Germany's unemployment rate rose to 5% in May, the first increase in five years.

Most of the rise is explained by a change to the way the government counts the unemployed, but the labour ministry said that Germany's slowing economy was also a factor.

1.耐力练习

加粗部分即句子主干。

2.力量练习

Most of the rise is explained by a change to the way the government counts the unemployed, but the labour ministry said that Germany's slowing economy was also a factor.

主干：（失业率的）上升得以解释，但劳动部说经济是个原因。

得到怎样的解释？

by a change to the way the government counts the unemployed（政府计算失业人数的方法导致的）

什么经济是个原因？

Germany's slowing（德国增长放缓的经济）