سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — المفردات في السياق (تدريب 6734)

(1) The United Kingdom (UK) joined the European Economic Community in 1973, which later became the European Union (EU) in 1992 when EU nations agreed on four economic freedoms - the free movement of workers, good, services, and capital. (2) In 1992 people in the UK started to take advantage of this freedom of movement. Now there are about two million British citizens living in Spain. Another one million people live in other countries in Europe. They there to work in banks and other service industries. (3) In 2004, Eastern European nations, such as Poland, were given membership to the EU. Poland was poor due to the failure of the communist government which collapsed in the late 1980s. With EU membership came opportunity. Young Poles were able to find better paid work in the UK, so in 2004 thousands of well-trained and educated Polish workers moved there to find work as doctors, engineer, mechanics, and nurses. Many returned to Poland later in the decade when workers’ pay in Poland due to better economic conditions. (4) People in the UK also benefitted from the free movement of goods and services. Supermarkets all over Britain brought in products from all over Europe. They started to sell a much wider variety of products. Food from France, Italy, Denmark, and Ireland was found in most supermarkets. In terms of the service sector, banks benefitted the most from trade with EU nations because of the free movement of capital and services. (5) The UK left the EU in 2020. The word migrated in Paragraph (2) is closet in meaning to ……………