阅读材料，回答下面试题。
　　Extensive new studies suggest that the world has made extraordinary progress in reducing poverty in recent decades. The research suggests that the pace of economic progress has been rapid and continued for decades, built on the foundations of relative political stability, rising trade, and economic liberalization (自由化) after two world wars. One new study, published recently by the Institute for International Economics in Washington, find that the proportion of the 6.1 billion people in the world who live on $1 a day or less shrank from 63 percent in 1950 to 35 percent in 1955and 12 percent in 1999. By some other measures, the progress has been more modest. Still, economists agree that poverty has plunged in key nations such as India and especially China, thanks to slowing population growth as well as economic freedom. "This is a huge success for the world as a whole," says Harvard University economist Richard Cooper. "We are doing something right. "
　　The news comes as the World Bank is about to open its annual meeting in Washington an event that has been troubled in recent years by protests that the Bank and its sister Institution, the International Monetary Fund(IMF 国际货币组织) have done too little for the world’s poor. The new economic research will not put an end to that dispute. Vast populations remain poor, and many still question the wisdom of World Bank policies. Nonetheless, the research findings are helpful to understand what policies should be followed by those institutions and hundreds of other development groups working very hard to hasten the pace of world economic progress. If dramatic gains are under way, the present policies calling for open tharkets, free business activities, and tight monetary control are working and correct.
　　But critics of IMF and World Bank policies maintain that such economic success stories as Japan, China, South Korea and Singapore are rooted in more than just "free" markets. These nation shave managed to grow rapidly, and thereby reduce poverty, by limiting imports when their domestic industries were young, pushing exports to rich nations, and putting controls on purely international financial flows. The have been open to foreign owned factories but have often insisted that those investors share the knowledge and skill on modern technologies.
　　第21题 The word "plunged" in the first paragraph means__________.
　　A.decreased　　B.climbed　　C.increased　　D.dropped into water
　　答案：A
　　第22题 From the passage, we learn that__________.
　　A.World Bank has done nothing to help the poor in the world
　　B.IMF only helps the rich in the world
　　C.World Bank controls all the banks in the world
　　D.There are some. demonstrations against World Bank in recent years
　　答案：D
　　第23题 According to this passage, in __________, the world had the largest number of poor people.
　　A.1999　　B.1955　　C.1950　　D.1990
　　答案：C
　　第24题 According to the author, the economy of East Asian countries grew very fast because of the following measures EXCEPT__________.
　　A.encouraging export　　B.opening up to foreign investments
　　C.limiting international financial flows　　D.controlling import
　　答案：B
　　第25题 The best title for this passage might be__________.
　　A.China’s Contribution to the Reduction of Poverty in the World
　　B.World Bank’s Extraordinary Progress in Recent Decades
　　C.India’s Leading Role in Reducing Global Poverty
　　D.Global Progress in Reducing Poverty
　　答案：D
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　　"Equal pay for equal work" is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are unfairly treated by society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work. Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man is thought to earn money to support his family and to make the important decision, so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full- time jobs, they will be unable to do the things they are best at doing i making a nice home and bringing up children.
　　Women who disagree "say they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and to have freedom to choose between work and home life, or a mixture of the two.
　　Women have the right not only to equal pay but also to equal chances.
　　第26题 The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to ask society to __________.
　　A.pay men less than women
　　B.give women harder work
　　C.pay men and women the same amount of money for the same work
　　D.pay people more who do harder work
　　答案：C
　　第27题 Some people believe that __________
　　A.women can' t do what men can
　　B.men have to work much harder than women
　　C.men can earn money more easily than women
　　D.men' s duties are different from women' s
　　答案：D
　　第28题 Some people holding even stronger opinions say that __________.
　　A.women should be kind to their husbands
　　B.women are too weak to take full-time jobs
　　C.home is the best pace for women
　　D.women should only take part-time jobs
　　答案：C
　　第29题 The women who disagree say that __________.
　　A.women need chances to go out of the home more often
　　B.women want more freedom in deciding what kind of life they want
　　C.women are no longer interested in taking care of their homes
　　D.if women are given equal pay, they can do everything instead of men
　　答案：B
　　第30题 According to this passage some women want to give up __________.
　　A.their present position in society　　B.their marriage
　　C.their right to equal pay　　D.their home life
　　答案：A

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