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  3. Jeffrey Sachs is a macroeconomist by training, an expert in the vagaries of business cycles and international finance. But give

Jeffrey Sachs is a macroeconomist by training, an expert in the vagaries of business cycles and international finance. But give

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问题     Jeffrey Sachs is a macroeconomist by training, an expert in the vagaries of business cycles and international finance. But give the man l0 minutes onstage, and a scholarly symposium starts to feel like a revival meeting. "Let me take you to Malawi," he urges a typical audience, leaning into the microphone and lowering his voice. Like most countries in southern Africa, Malawi has Seen ravaged by AIDS for two decades. One adult in seven is HIV-positive, and some 2 million children have been orphaned. But instead of hurling numbers at his listeners, Sachs transports them to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, a site he visited this year while traveling with the rock star Bono.
    At one end of the facility is a small outpatient clinic where people who can pay $1 a day receive life-sustaining AIDS drugs. "They take the medicine and they get better," Sachs declares. "They return to work. They go back to care for their children." Unfortunately, $1 a day is nearly twice what a typical Malawian lives on. So most AIDS patients end up in wards like the one just down the hall from the outpatient clinic. "ladies and gentlemen", Sachs tells the now hushed hall, "this plague is exploding. Its consequences will make the world quake. Rich countries could stop the devastation. And most are still looking away."
    Sachs is not the first to sound this alarm, but he speaks with special authority. As the newly appointed director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, he heads a huge, interdisciplinary effort to help poor countries build sustainable economies. Instead of treating climate change, epidemic disease and social upheaval as distinct phenomena, the institute’s 800 scientists study the links among such problems—and work to translate their insights into action. Sachs also chairs blue-ribbon panels for the World Health Organization, advises U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on development issues and circles the globe pleading with policymakers to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. In the coming year he’ll help seed new treatment-and-prevention programs throughout Asia and Africa.
    From Sachs’s perspective, controlling AIDS is not only a moral imperative but also a practical necessity. As he is forever trying to convince political leaders, disease can perpetuate poverty, ruin economies and undermine civic order. As a Sachs-led WHO commission concluded last year, "The burden of disease in some low-income regions...stands as a barrier to economic growth and must be addressed frontally and centrally in any comprehensive development strategy." As a group, the world’s richest countries now spend just $6 billion a year in health-related development assistance. The Sachs commission concluded that by raising the commitment to $27 billion by 2007 and $38 billion by 2015, we would save 8 million lives every year while improving a third of the world’s prospects for prosperity.
选项 A、the training of macroeconomists.
B、international finance.
C、symposiums and conferences.
D、the fund raising work for poor countries.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。由题干中的Jeffrey Sachs定位至首段。开篇指出：Jeffrey Sachs是宏观经济学家，是经济循环和国际金融方面的专家。接下来是对Jeffery Sachs做讲座时的具体描述，引出南部非洲国家Malawi艾滋病肆虐这一现象。首段没有涉及Jeffrey Sachs具体的工作内容。因此需要继续阅读第二段。该段最后引用处提到Jeffrey的呼吁：这场灾难正在爆发，其结果会震动全世界，而富裕国家可以阻止其走向毁灭。由此可以推断，Jeffery关注非洲国家的艾滋病问题，呼呼富裕国家在财政上提供支持。第一段首句中的a macroeconomist by training是指Jeffrey是一个科班出身的宏观经济学家，与培训无关；同理从该句可知他是国际金融专家，但并没有说他现在从事这方面的工作；首段第二句提到symposium(研讨会)，但这里是提到的一个研讨会的例子。
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