高级英语2013年1月真题试题及答案解析（00600）

就算汽车车主可以无视公共交通的缺乏，他也很难忽视服务行业总体上的恶化。他的汽车需要维修工，而维修工的费用越来越贵，效率却越来越低。家用小装置更换的费用比维修便宜。越是看起来设备齐全的家庭，越要依赖冷漠的大公司和人数日益减少的服务大军。

生活中几乎任何有趣和有益的事情都需要建设性的、持之以恒的努力。我们中最迟钝、最缺乏天分的人也能有所作为，令那些从不专注的人感到惊奇。

在我看来，科学须运用诚实，它是我们发现真理的唯一可靠手段。

但请记住，语言是人类与同伴交流的方式，正是语言把人类与低级动物区分开来。

三家全国最有声望的公司为他提供了工作，他根本就不需要来参加这次面试，不需要来这家事务所。

奇怪的是，销售人员对他们所承受的长期压力和严密监督反应良好。

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What do you think of the gap between rich and poor nations?

So, when faced with a choice between saving Africa and saving George Bush from a mild diplomatic embarrassment, Blair has, as we could have predicted, done as his master bids.

But the ugliest of its hidden export subsidies is its use of aid as a means of penetrating the markets of poorer nations.

The current world trade agreement was supposed to have prevented the EU and the US from subsidising their exports to developing nations.

The West's farm subsidies, as Blair has pointed out, are a disaster for the developing world, and particularly for Africa.

The speech appeared to mark his transition from the insecure prime minister to a visionary and a statesman, determined to change the world.

The author's attitude to Blair's decision is ( ) .

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Richer countries like the Philippines receive more US food aid than poorer countries because ( ).

The word “plight” in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ( ).

The EU and the US have avoided the World Trade Agreement ban on subsidising food exports ( ).

According to the author, agricultural subsidies are a bad thing because ( ).

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The author is angry with Tony Blair because ( ).

What percentage of African workers are involved in farming?

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World's Rich Nations Miss a Golden

Opportunity to Back Fair Trade

(1) Perhaps the defining moment of Tony Blair's premiership was the speech that he gave to the Labour Party conference in October 2001. In June his party had returned to office with a huge majority. In September two planes were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York. (The speech appeared to mark his transition from the insecure prime minister to a visionary and a statesman, determined to change the world). The most memorable passage was his declaration on Africa. "The state of Africa", he told us, "is a scar on the conscience of the world. But if the world as a community focused on it, we could heal it. And if we don't, it will become deeper and angrier."

(2) This being so, I would like to ask Britain's visionary prime minister to explain what he thinks he was doing at the G8 summit in France. A few weeks ago President Jacques Chirac did something unprecedented. After years of opposing any changes to European farm subsidies(补贴), he approached the US government to suggest that Europe would stop subsidising its exports of food to Africa if America did the same.

(3) His offer was significant, not only because it represented a major policy reversal for France, but also because it provided an opportunity to abandon the (perpetual) agricultural arms race between the European Union and the US, in which each side seeks to offer more subsidies than the other. (The West's farm subsidies, as Blair has pointed out, are a disaster for the developing world, and particularly for Africa).

(4) Farming accounts for some 70% of employment on that continent, and most of the farmers there are desperately poor. Part of the reason is that they are unfairly undercut by the subsidised products dumped on their markets by exporters from the US and the EU. Chirac' s proposals addressed only part of the problem, but they could have begun the process of dismantling the system that does so much harm to the West's environment and the lives of some of the world's most (vulnerable) people.

(5) We might, then, have expected Blair to have welcomed Chirac's initiative. Instead the prime minister has single-handedly destroyed it. The reason will by now be familiar. George Bush, who receives substantial political support from US agro-industrialists, grain exporters and pesticide manufacturers, was not prepared to make the concessions required to match Chirac's offer. If the EU, and in particular the UK, had supported France, the moral pressure on Bush might have been irresistible. But as soon as Blair made it clear that he would not support Chirac's plan, the initiative was dead.

(6) So, thanks to Mr Blair and his habit of doing whatever Bush tells him to, Africa will continue to suffer. Several of the food crises from which that continent is now suffering are made worse by the (plight) of its own farmers. The underlying problem is that the rich nations set the global trade rules. (The current world trade agreement was supposed to have prevented the EU and the US from subsidising their exports to developing nations). But, as the development agency Oxfam has shown, the agreement contains so many loopholes that it permits the two big players simply to call their export subsidies by a different name.

(7) So, for example, the EU has, in several farm sectors, stopped paying farmers according to the amount they produce and started instead to give them direct grants, based on the amount of land they own and how much they produced there in the past. The US has applied the same formula, and added a couple of tricks of its own. One of these is called "export credit": the state reduces the cost of US exports by providing cheap insurance for the exporters. These credits, against which Chirac was hoping to trade the European subsidies, are worth some $7.7bn to US grain sellers. In combination with other tricks, they ensure that American exporters can undercut the world price for wheat and maize by between 10% and 16%, and the world price for cotton by 40%. (But the ugliest of its hidden export subsidies is its use of aid as a means of penetrating the markets of poorer nations). While the other major donors give money, which the World Food Programme can use to buy supplies in local markets, thus helping farmers while feeding the starving, the US insists on sending its own produce, stating that this programme is "designed to develop . " and expand commercial outlets for US products".

(8) The result is that the major recipients are not the nations in greatest need, but the nations that can again in the words of the US department of agriculture,. "demonstrate the potential to become commercial markets" for US farm products. This is why, for example, the Philippines currently receives more US food aid than Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe put together, all of which, unlike the Philippines, are currently suffering from serious food shortages.

(9) But US policy also ensures that food aid is delivered just when it is needed least. Oxfam has produced a graph plotting the amount of wheat given to developing nations by the US against world prices. When the price falls the volume of "aid" rises. This is as clear a demonstration of agricultural dumping as you could ask for. The very programme that is meant to help the poor is in fact undermining them.

(10) (So, when faced with a choice between saving Africa and saving George Bush from a mild diplomatic embarrassment, Blair has, as we could have predicted,done as his master bids). The scar on the conscience of the world has just become deeper and angrier.

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