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Whoever said that victory has many fathers and defeat is an orphan, surely had never heard of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Whoever said that victory has many fathers and defeat is an orphan, surely had never heard of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
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2010-06-30
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Whoever said that victory has many fathers and defeat is an orphan, surely had never heard of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In the case of the hapless multilateral trade body and its long-suffering representatives, the total failure of the opening meeting of the so called Millennium trade round has lots of people boasting of their role in the melee. Well. That’s just brilliant. They are proud of being part of a movement that wants to wreck the most important engine of economic growth, prosperity and overall global rising living standards we have--the freedom of trade and movement of people and goods between nations.
The 135-member WTO is composed of sovereign governments wishing to further this goal and ease the settlement of international trade disputes. Form the sounds emanating from Seat tie, though, it would now seem the WTO has now replaced the Trilateral Commission and the Freemasons as candidate No. 1 .to take over the world. Everybody has his favorite Seattle story. The city’s police chief will have plenty of time to think about this, having now resigned in disgrace over the loss of control of downtown Seattle. The Seattle business community may be more inclined to brood over theirs; the poor fools invested $ 9 million to attract the’ meeting to their fine city. What stands out more? I would nominate the union of steel workers, who were marching in protest. It’s an image that will’ boggle the mind for years to come.
The debate now is over just how effective this anti-globalist coalition will turn out to be. In the heat of the moment, it always looks as though the world as we know it is coming to an end. But the overwhelming likelihood is that we have not actually seen a replay of the anti-Vietnam War movement, which had much clearer focus, obviously, though its consequences were far reaching. How long, after all, can you protest against cheap imports when those same imports are all over your house?
No, the real reason for the disaster in Seattle is political. Taking the long view, other trade rounds have had difficult beginnings, too. It took years to get the Uruguay Round under way, which finally happened in 1986. Thankfully, we will soon be electing another president, and it should be someone whose actions match his rhetoric.
Still, it is a disgrace that the world’s greatest trading nation, i.e. the United States, is currently led by a man whose motivations are so narrowly political and egocentric that he has now wrecked any chance of entering the history books as a champion of free trade.
By saying that "It’s an image that will boggle the mind for years to come," (the last sentence in paragraph 2) the author means that______.
选项
A、the WTO is likely to have a bad image in people’s mind in the future
B、the startling scene will hang in people’s mind in the years to come
C、the WT0 will have a difficult time changing people’s way of thinking in the furture
D、people will lose whatever confidence they have in the future of the WTO
答案
B
解析
语义题。根据其所在的上下文确定其意义。先确定it在此处的确切指代是本段上文提到的各种混乱现象,以及失败给各种人带来的得失,再确定boggle的意思,此处应为“令人不知所措”,“令人困惑”,这才是这种现象可能产生的后果。因此全句意为:这个令人吃惊的场景在未来的几年里将萦绕在人们心中。所以选项B是正确答案。
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