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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 "
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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2020-03-31
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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 "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 Col6n, an opera house that opened in 1908, and the Retire railway station, completed in 1915. These are emblems of Argentina’s Belle 6poque, 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.
Before the outbreak of World War I, Argentina______.
选项
A、depended mainly on agriculture
B、was the richest country in the world
C、had no appeal to European immigrants
D、had the highest GDP recorded in the world
答案
A
解析
根据before the outbreak of World war I定位到第三段。选项[A]对应倒数第二句:…where crops and cattle were propelling Argentina’s expansion.故该项表达是正确的。选项[B]文章没有提到,属于无中生有。文章只提到“the world’s true land of opportunity世界真正的机会之地”,并没有提到“the richest”这样的信息,故该项错误。选项[C]与该段“The country wasa magnet for European immigrants,who flocked to find work on the fertile pampas”所述内容完全相反,故错误。选项[D]对应该段中间一句:In the 43 years leading up to 1914,GDP had grownat an annual rate of 6%,the fastest recorded in the world.其中的“fastest”与该项“highest”不符,属于偷换概念,故该项错误。综上所述,答案为选项[A]。
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