[讨论]gwd 30-35，36

GWD30-Q35 to Q37:

(The following was excerpted from

material written in 1988.)

      For over a decade the

            most common policy advice

            given to developing countries

Line     by international development

  (5)            institutions has been to copy

the export-oriented path of the

newly industrializing countries,

the celebrated NIC’s.  These

economies—Brazil, Hong

 (10)     Kong, Mexico, Singapore,

South Korea, and Taiwan—

burst into the world manufac-

turing market in the late 1960’s

and the 1970’s; by 1978 these

 (15)     six economies, along with India,

enjoyed unequaled growth

rates for gross national product

and for exports, with exports

accounting for 70 percent of

 (20)     the developing world’s manu-

            factured exports.  It was,

            therefore, not surprising that

dozens of other countries

attempted to follow their model,

 (25)     yet no countries—with the pos-

sible exceptions of Malaysia

and Thailand—have even

approached their success.  In

“No More NIC’s,” Robin Broad

 (30)     and John Cavanagh search for

the reasons behind these fail-

ures, identifying far-reaching

            changes in the global econ-

omy—from synthetic substitutes

 (35)
                   for commodity exports to

unsustainable levels of foreign

debt—as responsible for a glut

economy offering little room for

           new entrants.  Despite these

 (40)           changes, the authors maintain,

the World Bank and the Inter-

national Monetary Fund—the

foremost international devel-

opment institutions—have

 (45)            continued to promote the NIC

path as the way for heavily

indebted developing countries

to proceed.  And yet the futility

of this approach should,

 (50)            according to the authors, be

all too apparent so many years

into a period of reduced growth

in world markets.

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Q35:

Given the information in the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the NIC’s?

1. Their economic success among developing countries has been exceeded only by the successes of Malaysia and Thailand.
2. By 1978 they produced 70 percent of the world’s manufactured exports.
3. In the late 1970’s, their growth rates for gross national product were among the highest in the world.
4. In recent years their development has been heavily subsidized by major international development institutions.
5. They received conflicting policy advice from international development institutions in the late 1960’s and the 1970’s.

Answer:

the World Bank and the Inter-

national Monetary Fund—the

foremost international devel-

opment institutions—have

 (45)            continued to promote the NIC

path as the way for heavily

indebted developing countries

to proceed.

indebted developing countries是什么意思?受惠国吗?我看到promote,indebted这种,就觉得35应该选D,而且B明显不能推出它是highest的.