单选题 September 11 should have driven home a basic lesson for the Bush administration about life in an interconnected world: misery abroad threatens security at home. It is no coincidence that Osama Bin Laden found warm hospitality in the Taliban's Afghanistan, whose citizens were among the most impoverished and oppressed on earth. If the administration took this lesson seriously, it would dump the rules of realpolitik that have governed U.S. foreign aid policy for 50 years. Instead, it is pouring money into an ally of convenience, Pakistan, which is ultimately likely to expand the ranks of anti-American terrorists abroad.
To enlist Pakistan in the fight against the Taliban, the Bush administration resurrected the Cold War tradition of propping up despotic military regimes in the name of peace and freedom. Its commitment of billions of dollars to Pakistan since September 11 will further entrench the sort of government that has made Pakistan both a development failure and a geopolitical hotspot for decades. Within Pakistan, the aid may ultimately create enough angry young men to make up A1 Qaeda's losses in Afghanistan. In South Asia as a whole, the cash infusion may accelerate a dangerous arms race with India.
Historically, the U.S. government has cloaked aid to allies such as Pakistan in the rhetoric of economic development. As a Cold War ally, Pakistan received some $ 37 billion in grants and loans from the West between 1960 and 1990, adjusting for inflation. And since September 11, the U.S. administration has promised more of the' same. It has dropped sanctions imposed after Pakistan detonated a nuclear bomb in 1998, pushed through a $1.3 billion IMF loan for Pakistan, and called for another $2 billion from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The Bush administration is also, ironically, pressing allies to join it in canceling or rescheduling billions of dollars of old (and failed) loans that were granted in past decades in response to similar arm-twisting.
Despite--even because of--all this aid, Pakistan is now one of the most indebted, impoverished, militarized nations on earth. The causes of Pakistan's poverty are sadly familiar. The government ignored family planning, leading to population expansion from 50 million in 1960 to nearly 150 million today, for an average growth rate of 2.6 percent a year. Foreign aid meant to pave rural roads went into unneeded city highways--or pockets of top officials. And the military grew large, goaded by a regional rivalry with India that has three times bubbled into war. The result is a government that, as former World Bank economist William Easterly has observed, "cannot bring off a simple and cheap measles (麻疹) vaccination (预防接种) program, and yet...can build nuclear weapons./

单选题 The author's purpose of writing this article is to ______.
A. search for the source of Pakistan's poverty
B. seek for the reason for terrorism
C. criticize the realpolitik in U.S. foreign aid policy
D. find a solution to the tension in South Asia
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这是一道主旨题。文章第一段指出：9•11事件将使布什政府清楚地记住这个相互联系的世界有关生命的基本教训——国外的贫穷会威胁到国内的安全；本•拉登在塔利班控制的阿富汗受到盛情款待，这不是巧合；如果政府认真考虑了这次教训，它就应该抛弃现实政治的一些准则，这些准则左右美国的对外援助政策达50年之久；相反，政府正在给巴基斯坦提供大量的金钱，这种做法最终有可能扩大国外反美国的恐怖分子的阵营。随后两段具体说明了美国外援的政策。最后一段指出：因为所有这些援助，巴基斯坦如今成了世界上负债最多、最贫穷、最军事化的国家之一； 巴基斯坦贫穷的原因是人们都知晓的。这说明，作者写本文是为了批评美国援外政策。C说“批评美国援外政策中的现实政治”，这与作者的意图相符。巴基斯坦的贫穷等问题只是文章最后一段提到的内容，不能表达作者的主要意图，所以A不对；文中提到terrorism时是说“政府正在给一个利益同盟——巴基斯坦——提供大量的金钱，这种做法最终有可能扩大国外反美国的恐怖分子的阵营”，并没有分析恐怖主义的根源，所以B不能表达作者的主要意图；文中提到South Asia时是说“在整个南亚地区，资金的流入可能加速与印度危险的军备竞赛”，并没有提出解决方案，所以D也不能表达作者的主要意图。
单选题 By saying "It is no coincidence that Osama Bin Laden found warm hospitality in the Taliban's Afghanistan," the author means ______.
A. Osama Bin Laden and Taliban are good friends
B. America's foreign policy is one of the sources of the misery in Afghanistan
C. it is not difficult for Bin Laden to find warm hospitality in Afghanistan
D. Osama Bin Laden is the source of misery abroad
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这是一道词义题。题干中的信号词出自于文章第一段第二句话中。作者说这句话，是想表达这样的意思——美国的外交政策给阿富汗带来了苦难。B说“美国的外交政策是阿富汗贫穷的根源之一”，这与文章的意思相符。文中没有提到A；文中是说“本•拉登在塔利班控制的阿富汗受到盛情款待，这不是巧合”，并不是说本•拉登不难在阿富汗受到盛情款待，所以C不对；D明显与作者的意图不符。
单选题 America supports the military regime in Pakistan in order to ______.
A. control the government of Pakistan
B. get the natural resources of Pakistan
C. keep peace and freedom
D. draw the support of Pakistan in fighting against Taliban
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这是一道细节题。题干中的信号词为the military regime，出自于文章第二段第一句话中。文章第二段指出：为了在反塔利班的战争中得到巴基斯坦的支持，布什政府重新启用冷战时期以和平与自由的名义支持专制军事政权的传统做法。这说明，美国支持巴基斯坦军事政权的目的是为了争取巴基斯坦对反塔利班战争的支持。D说“获得巴基斯坦在反塔利班的战争中的支持”，这与文章的意思相符。文中没有提到控制巴基斯坦政府的意思，也没有提到获得巴基斯坦的自然资源的意思，所以A和B不对；C只是布什政府的借口，并不是真正目的，所以也不对。
单选题 It implies in the passage that ______.
A. the U.S. government has been helping Pakistan's economic development
B. the U.S. approved Pakistan's detonating nuclear bomb
C. the Pakistan government is corrupt
D. the Pakistan government didn't pay much attention to family planning
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这是一道推论题。文章第二段指出：布什政府许诺给巴基斯坦的几十亿美元将进一步保护这样的政府——这种政府不仅使巴基斯坦的发展失败，而且还使巴基斯坦几十年内都成为地区热点。第四段指出：因为所有这些援助， 巴基斯坦如今成了世界上负债最多、最贫穷、最军事化的国家之一；该国政府忽视计划生育，导致人口从年的五千万增加到现在的将近一亿五千万；国外的援助意味着铺设通往不需要的城市公路系统的乡村公路，或是钱财流进高官的口袋。由此可知，巴基斯坦政府存在腐败现象。C说“巴基斯坦政府是腐败的政府”，这与文章的意思相符。文章第三段第一句话明确提到了A，不必推论就可知结果，所以不对；文中提到 detonating nuclear bomb时是说“美国政府已经减少了巴基斯坦在1998年试爆核弹后被给予的制裁”，并没有说支持巴基斯坦试爆核弹，所以B不对；文章第四段第三句话明确提到了D，不必推论就可知结果，所以也不对。
单选题 All of the following can be learned from the passage EXCEPT ______.
A. realpolitik has a long history in U.S. foreign aid policy
B. in the Cold War, the U.S. supported some military regimes in Asia
C. the Pakistan government has intensified the tension in South Asia
D. the Pakistan government won't spend foreign aid on developing nuclear weapons in future
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这是一道细节题。文章第一段第三句话说“如果政府认真考虑了这次教训，它就应该抛弃现实政治的一些准则，这些准则左右美国的对外援助政策达50年之久”，说明A正确；文章第二段第一句话说“为了在反塔利班的战争中得到巴基斯坦的支持，布什政府重新启用冷战时期以和平与自由的名义支持专制军事政权的传统做法”，说明B也正确；文章第二段最后一句话以及第四段第五句话证实C也正确。只有D文中没有提到。