填空题Directions:You are going to read a list of headings and a
text about leadership. Choose a heading from the list A-F that best fits the
meaning of each numbered part of the text. The first and last paragraphs of the
text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to
use. The word 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 increases, combined
with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many
parts of the world and will even affect political stability, as evidenced by the
protest riots that have erupted in places like Haiti, Bangladesh and Burkina
Faso. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we'll have to start
thinking ahead and acting globally. The crisis has its roots in
four interlinked trends. The first is the chronically low productivity of
farmers in the poorest countries, caused by their inability to pay for seeds,
fertilizers and irrigation. The second is the misguided polity in the U. S. and
Europe of subsidizing the diversion of food crops to produce biofuels like
corn-based ethanol. The third is climate change: take the recent droughts in
Australia and Europe, which cut the global production of grain in 2005 and 2006.
The fourth is the growing global demand for food and feed grain brought on by
swelling populations and incomes. In short, rising demand has hit a limited
supply, with the poor taking the hardest blow. So, what should
be done? 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 years. An international
fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the
rich world, or $10 billion altogether. Such a fund could fight hunger as
effectively as the Global fund to Gight AIDS, TB and Malaria is controlling
those diseases. 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 Find to help poor regions climate-proof
vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not
yet acted upon the promise. A. poor countries
B. all the world C. the Climate Adaptation Fund
D. the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria E.
Bangladesh F. Malawi G. the US and
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