gwd 6-v-35

      Many researchers regard Thailand’s

            recent economic growth, as reflected by its

            gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates,

Line     as an example of the success of a modern

  (5)      technological development strategy based

on the market economics of industrialized

countries.  Yet by focusing solely on aggre-

gate economic growth data as the measure

of Thailand’s development, these research-

(10)     ers have overlooked the economic impact of

rural development projects that improve

people’s daily lives at the village level—

such as the cooperative raising of water

buffalo, improved sanitation, and the devel-

(15)     opment of food crops both for consumption

and for sale at local markets; such projects

are not adequately reflected in the country’s

GDP.  These researchers, influenced by

Robert Heilbroner’s now outdated develop-

(20)     ment theory, tend to view nontechnological

            development as an obstacle to progress.

            Heilbroner’s theory has become doctrine in

some economics textbooks:  for example,

Monte Palmer disparages nontechnological

(25)     rural development projects as inhibiting

constructive change.  Yet as Ann Kelleher’s

two recent case studies of the Thai villages

Non Muang and Dong Keng illustrate, the

nontechnological-versus-technological

(30)     dichotomy can lead researchers not only to

overlook real advances achieved by rural

development projects but also mistakenly to

            conclude that because such advances are

initiated by rural leaders and are based on

(35)     traditional values and practices, they retard

“real” economic development.

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Q35:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

我觉得选A，作者的意思是说那些研究者只看到了technological development strategy based

on the market economics，但是overlooked the economic impact of rural development projects that improve people’s daily lives at the village level。这两者都是GDP增长的原因

I agree with D.

A错在explain上面。作者没有explain Thai的经济增长的原因。

欧也坚定不移地认为是D

这题很麻烦。

作者反对用technological development 作解释，强调rural development projects的作用。但B中，argue for the adoption 是没有根据的。而D中，assumption也很含糊，Many researchers regard，不是assume. 大家看看C有没有可能？

同意liu-9000。本来选的是D，但是仔细看了一下，觉得D是有问题，文中没有提到任何assumption. 还是觉得B好一些。反对那些经济学家的偏见，实际上就是在argue for the projects.

请指正。