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The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a looming hung
The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a looming hung
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2022-12-06
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The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a looming hunger crisis in poor countries and a looming energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years, and oil prices have more than tripled since the start of 2004. These food-price increases combing with soaring energy costs will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even undermine political stability, as evidenced by the protest riots that have erupted in places like Haiti, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. Practical solutions to these growing woes do exist, but we’ll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.
The crisis has its roots in four interlinked trends. The first is the chronically low productivity of farmers in the poorest countries, caused by their inability to pay for seeds, fertilizers and irrigation. The second is the misguided policy in the U.S. and Europe of subsidizing the diversion of food crops to produce biofuels like corn-based ethanol. The third is climate change; take the recent droughts in Australia and Europe, which cut the global production of grain in 2005 and 2006. The fourth is the growing global demand for food and feed grains brought on by swelling populations and incomes. In short, rising demand has hit a limited supply, with the poor taking the hardest blow.
So, what should be done? Here are three steps to ease the current crisis and avert the potential for a global disaster. The first is to scale-up the dramatic success of Malawi, a famine-prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria is controlling those diseases.
Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of subsidizing the conversion of food into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed subsidy of 51 cents per gal of ethanol to divert corn from the food and feed-grain supply. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods—tree crops (like palm oil), grasses and wood products—but there’s no case for doling out subsidies to put the world’s dinner into the gas tank. Third, we urgently need to weatherproof the world’s crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used for emergency irrigation in a dry spell—can make the difference between a bountiful crop and a famine. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation Fund to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet upon the promise.
[A] poor countries.
[B] all the world.
[C] the Climate Adaptation Fund.
[D] the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
[E] Bangladesh.
[F] Malawi.
[G] the US and Europe.
Protest riots occurred in
选项
答案
E
解析
复现结构。本题左栏中的信息是一个不完整句子,即Protest riots occurred in(抗议骚乱出现在),而右栏的信息均是地点(国家)和机构组织的名称,至此考生大体可以理解出题人是要求考生为左栏的“抗议骚乱出现在”匹配一个地点,即“抗议骚乱出现在哪里”。考生首先把握左栏句子信息中的关键线索点,即Protest riots,然后去原文利用复现结构进行对比查找,看原文哪个地方含有“抗议骚乱”的信息。同时,再根据原文是一篇典型的“先提出问题,再给出问题解决方案”的文章,左栏的句子 “Protest riots occurred in (抗议骚乱出现在 )”应该出现在文章的前半部分,即“提出问题”的部分,考生应该把搜索范围确定在文章的前半部分,即第一段和第二段。据此考生很容易发现在原文的第一段中出现了复现信息,即as evidenced by the protest riots that have erupted in places like Haiti, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. 据此,本题的答案为E项Bangladesh。
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