The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price iricrcases. combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we'll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.

Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or S10 billion altogether.

Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol (乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods — tree crops, grasses and wood products — but there's no case for the government to pay to put the world's dinner into the gas tank.

Third, we urgently need to weather-proof die world's crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond — which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather — can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation hind to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise.

An international fund based on the Malawi model would______.

A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year

B. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries In a year

C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices

D. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds

With the second step, the author expresses the idea that ______.

A. it is not wise to change food crops into gas

B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank

C. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way

D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against dry weal

B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor

C. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.

D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not.

 In the passage, the author calls on us to______.

A. slow down but not to stop economic.

B. develop tree crops, grasses'and wood products

C. achieve economic growth and political stability

D. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage

【小題1】D

【小題2】 A

【小題3】 A

【小題4】 D


解析:

主要內(nèi)容：世界的經(jīng)濟(jì)如今已經(jīng)遇到困難。盡管近年來(lái)有很多警告，我們需要警惕在貧窮國(guó)家里可能會(huì)有饑荒、以及世界范圍內(nèi)的能源危機(jī)，然而世界各國(guó)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人還是沒(méi)有能夠提早考慮這些問(wèn)題。結(jié)果就是現(xiàn)在全球范圍的食品危機(jī)。

【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。此題可以從第二段的第二句話“to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity”里得到答案。

【小題2】段落大意題。文章的第三段里說(shuō)了第二個(gè)步驟，那么作者要表達(dá)的意思就是A項(xiàng)，“將糧食轉(zhuǎn)化成汽油是不明智的”，第三段的第一句話中的“abandon”、“paying partly for the change of food into biofuels”也提示了答案。

【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)推理題。根據(jù)文章意思知A項(xiàng)是正確的，“修建一個(gè)蓄雨水的水池是一個(gè)很簡(jiǎn)單的對(duì)付干季的措施”。而B(niǎo)項(xiàng)“一個(gè)氣候適應(yīng)基金已經(jīng)建立起來(lái)，來(lái)幫助貧窮地區(qū)”是不對(duì)的，C項(xiàng)“整個(gè)世界對(duì)建立農(nóng)場(chǎng)的池塘已經(jīng)作出了鄭重的承諾”沒(méi)有提到，D項(xiàng)說(shuō)“我們是否發(fā)展食品生產(chǎn)是沒(méi)有什么多大區(qū)別的”很顯然是錯(cuò)誤的。

【小題4】深層理解題。通過(guò)閱讀文章，我們可以獲悉作者的用意是來(lái)號(hào)召“我們立刻行動(dòng)起來(lái)，來(lái)緩解全球的食物短缺”，所以D項(xiàng)為正確答案。

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