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When the residents of Buenos Aires want to change the pesos they do not trust into the dollars they do, they go to a cueva, or "

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问题     When the residents of Buenos Aires want to change the pesos they do not trust into the dollars they do, they go to a cueva, or "cave" , an office that acts as a front for a thriving illegal exchange market. In one cueva near Florida Street, a pedestrian avenue in the centre of the city, piles of pesos from previous transactions lie on a table. A courier is getting ready to carry the notes to safety-deposit boxes.
    This smallish cueva handles transactions worth $50,000-75,000 a day. Fear of inflation and of further depreciation of the peso, which fell by more than 20% in January, will keep demand for dollars high. Few other ways of making money are this good. "Modern Argentina does not offer what you could call an institutional career," says one cueva owner.
    As the couriers carry their bundles around Buenos Aires, they pass grand buildings like the Teatro Colón, an opera house that opened in 1908, and the Retiro railway station, completed in 1915. These are emblems of Argentina’s Belle époque, the period before the outbreak of the first world war when the country could claim to be the world’s true land of opportunity. In the 43 years leading up to 1914, GDP had grown at an annual rate of 6% , the fastest recorded in the world. The country was a magnet for European immigrants, who flocked to find work on the fertile pampas, where crops and cattle were propelling Argentina’s expansion. In 1914 half of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign-born.
    The country ranked among the ten richest in the world, after the likes of Australia, Britain and the United States, but ahead of France, Germany and Italy. Its income per head was 92% of the average of 16 rich economies. From this point, it looked down its nose at its neighbours: Brazil’s population was less than a quarter as well-off.
    It never got better than this. Although Argentina has had periods of robust growth in the past century—not least during the commodity boom of the past ten years—and its people remain wealthier than most Latin Americans, its standing as one of the world’s most vibrant economies is a distant memory. Its income per head is now 43% of those same 16 rich economies; it trails Chile and Uruguay in its own backyard.
We know from the fourth paragraph that ______.
选项 A、Argentina is now ranking among the ten richest countries in the world
B、Argentina’s average income accounts for 92% of all 16 rich economies
C、Argentina was much richer than Brazil, where many people lived in poverty
D、Argentina was looked down upon by countries like Australia, the U. K.  and the US
答案C
解析 选项A对应第四段首句：The country ranked among the ten richest in the world，after the likes of Australia, Britain and the United States，but ahead of France，Germany and Italy．该项的now一词错误，文章讲述的是过去，而不是现在，故该项错误。选项B对应该段第二句：Its income per head was 92％ of the average of 16 rich economies．原文说的是“92％ of the average of 16 rich economies”，该项说的是“92％ of all 16 rich economies”，显然all与average不符，该项错误。选项C对应该段最后一句：From this point，it looked down its nose at its neighbours：Brazil’s population was less than a quarter as well-off．该项的“Argentina was much richer than Brazil”可以通过上下文看出来，而“Brazil where many people lived in poverty”体现在“Brazil’s population was less than a quarter as well-off”一句，该项与原文是同义替换表述，故该项正确。选项D对应原文的“it looked down its nose at its neighbours”，指的是“阿根廷看不起它的邻国”，而该项说别的国家看不起阿根廷，故该项错误。综上所述，答案为选项C。
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