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During the past two decades astonishing progress has been made in fighting infectious diseases in poor countries. Polio has almo
During the past two decades astonishing progress has been made in fighting infectious diseases in poor countries. Polio has almo
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2020-03-31
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During the past two decades astonishing progress has been made in fighting infectious diseases in poor countries. Polio has almost been eradicated; malaria is being tamed; AIDS is slowly being brought under control. Yet almost unnoticed, another
epidemic
is raging across the developing world, this one man-made.
Road crashes now kill 1.3 m people a year, more than malaria or tuberculosis. On present trends, by 2030 they will take a greater toll than the two together, and greater even than AIDS. The vast majority of victims die in poor and middle-income countries—1. 2m in 2011, compared with 99, 000 in rich ones. For every 100,000 cars in the rich world, fewer than 15 people die each year. In Ethiopia the figure is 250 times higher.
It is tempting to see the kill as the price of development. Building roads is a highly effective way of boosting growth: the World Bank finds many projects to fund that do better than its minimum acceptable economic rate of return of 12%. In the rich world road deaths and growth went hand-in-hand for decades; the first death-by-car was in 1896 and the peak came in the 1970s.
However, since then, restraints on drivers and investment in safety have slashed road deaths in the rich world by more than half. New York’s roads are now at their safest since records began in 1910. Sweden is still some way from its stated goal of ending road deaths altogether, but in 2013 just one Swedish child under seven died in a crash. Technology such as alcolocks, which prevent drunk-driving, and self-driving cars will make roads in the rich world safer still.
Governments in poor countries tend to assume that they, too, must see deaths soar before they are rich enough to think about saving lives. Aid donors and development banks may conclude that a dangerous road is better than no road at all. But the experience of rich countries has shown that roads can be made safer cheaply and simply. And far from being an unaffordable luxury, safe roads make better economic sense than dangerous ones. Most crash victims are boys and working-age men. Their death or disability leaves families in poverty and deprives countries of their most economically valuable citizens. In medical bills, care, lost output and vehicle damage, the kill costs desperately poor countries as much as 10% of GDP.
The best title for the text may be______.
选项
A、Road Crashes; Hard to Prevent
B、Road: Bringing Growth or Death
C、The Unnoticed Infectious Disease
D、The Most Serious Problem in Poor Countries
答案
B
解析
本文第一段提到人类对抗疾病,是为了引出第二段全文讨论的话题——road era—shes。选项[C]和[D]两项明显与之无关,可以先排除。[A]项的前半部分是正确的,后半部分的“Hard to Prevent”与最后一段的“But the experience of rich countries has shown that roadscan be made safer cheaply and simply.”一句明显不符,文章提到车祸并不是难以避免的,公路可以变得更加安全,故该项错误。而文章除了讨论车祸造成的死亡以外,第三段明确指出:Building roads is a highly effective way of boosting growth.由此可见文章也提到了公路建设促进发展,因此最适合的标题是选项[B]。
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