MBA考试

【单选题】September 11 should have driven home a basic lesson for theBush administration about life in an interconnected world: misery abroad threatens security at home. It is no coincidence that OsamaBin Laden found warm hospitality in the Taliban’sAfghanistan, whose citizens were among the most impoverished and oppressed on earth. If the administration took this lesson seriously, it would dump the rules of realpolitik that have governed U.S. foreign aid policy for 50 years. Instead, it is pouring money into an ally of convenience, Pakistan, which is ultimately likely to expand the ranks of anti-American terrorists abroaD、
To enlist Pakistan in the fight against the Taliban, theBush administration resurrected theCold War tradition of propping up despotic military regimes in the name of peace and freedom. Its commitment of billions of dollars to Pakistan since September 11 will further entrench the sort of government that has made Pakistan both a development failure and a geopolitical hotspot for decades. Within Pakistan, the aid may ultimately create enough angry young men to make upA1 Qaeda’s losses inAfghanistan. In SouthAsia as a whole, the cash infusion may accelerate a dangerous arms race with Indi
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Historically, the U.S. government has cloaked aid to allies such as Pakistan in the rhetoric of economic development.As aCold War ally, Pakistan received some $ 37 billion in grants and loans from the West between 1960 and 1990, adjusting for inflation.And since September 11, the U.S. administration has promised more of the’ same. It has dropped sanctions imposed after Pakistan detonated a nuclear bomb in 1998, pushed through a $1.3 billion IMF loan for Pakistan, and called for another $2 billion from the WorldBank and theAsianDevelopmentBank. TheBush administration is also, ironically, pressing allies to join it in canceling or rescheduling billions of dollars of old (and failed) loans that were granted in past decades in response to similar arm-twisting.
Despite--even because of--all this aid, Pakistan is now one of the most indebted, impoverished, militarized nations on earth. The causes of Pakistan’s poverty are sadly familiar. The government ignored family planning, leading to population expansion from 50 million in 1960 to nearly 150 million today, for an average growth rate of 2.6 percent a year. Foreign aid meant to pave rural roads went into unneeded city highways--or pockets of top officials.And the military grew large, goaded by a regional rivalry with India that has three times bubbled into war. The result is a government that, as former WorldBank economist WilliamEasterly has observed, "cannot bring off a simple and cheap measles (麻疹) vaccination (预防接种) program, and yet...can build nuclear weapons.\
It implies in the passage that ______.

A、the U.S. government has been helping Pakistan’s economic development
B、the U.S. approved Pakistan’s detonating nuclear bomb
C、the Pakistan government is corrupt
D、the Pakistan government didn’t pay much attention to family planning
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
这是一道推论题。文章第二段指出：布什政府许诺给巴基斯坦的几十亿美元将进一步保护这样的政府——这种政府不仅使巴基斯坦的发展失败，而且还使巴基斯坦几十年内都成为地区热点。第四段指出：因为所有这些援助， 巴基斯坦如今成了世界上负债最多、最贫穷、最军事化的国家之一；该国政府忽视计划生育，导致人口从年的五千万增加到现在的将近一亿五千万；国外的援助意味着铺设通往不需要的城市公路系统的乡村公路，或是钱财流进高官的口袋。由此可知，巴基斯坦政府存在腐败现象。C说“巴基斯坦政府是腐败的政府”，这与文章的意思相符。文章第三段第一句话明确提到了A，不必推论就可知结果，所以不对；文中提到 detonating nuclear bomb时是说“美国政府已经减少了巴基斯坦在1998年试爆核弹后被给予的制裁”，并没有说支持巴基斯坦试爆核弹，所以B不对；文章第四段第三句话明确提到了D，不必推论就可知结果，所以也不对。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>