成人英语三级考试

解析:Passage 3  Questions 11 to 15 are b

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【单选题】Passage 3  Questions 11 to 15 are based onthe following passage:  (79)Extensive new studies suggestthat the world has, made extraordinary progress in reducing poverty in recent decades. The research suggests that the pace of economic progress has been rapid and continued for decades, built on the foundations of relative political stability, rising trade, and economic liberalization (自由化) after two world wars. One new study, published recently by the Institute for InternationalEconomics in Washington, finds that the proportion of the 6.1 billion people in the world who live on $1 a day or less shrank from 63 .percent in 1950 to 35 percent in 1980 and 12 percent in 1999.By some other measures, the progress has been more modest. Still, economists agree that poverty has plunged in key nations such as India and especiallyChina, thanks to slowing population growth as well as economic freedom. “This is a huge success for the world as a whole,”says Harvard University economist RichardCooper. “We are doing something right.”  The news comes as the WorldBank is about to open its annual meeting in Washington’ an event that has been troubled in recent years by protests that theBank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF国际货币基金组织), have done too little for the world’s poor. (80) The new economic research will not put an end to that dispute. Vast populations remain poor, and many still question the wisdom of WorldBank policies. Nonetheless, the research findings are helpful to understand what policies should be followed by th6se institutions and hundreds of other development groups working very hard to hasten the pace of world economic progress. If dramatic gains are under way, the present policies-- calling for open markets, freebusiness activities, and tight monetary control are working and correct.  But critics of IMF and WorldBank policies maintain that such economi
C、success stories as Japan,China, South Korea and Singapore are rooted in more than just "free’, markets. These nations have managed to grow rapidly, and thereby reduce poverty, by limiting imports when their domestic industries were yotmg, pushing exports to rich nations, and putting controls on purely international financial;flows. They have been open to foreign-owned factories but have often insisted that those investors share"the knowledge and skill on modem technologies, According to this passage, in__________, the world had the largest number of poor people.
A、1999
B.1980

C、1950
D.1990

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