“Who
made you T-shirt?” A Geo letdown University students raised that question.
Piertra Rivoli, a professor of business, wanted to find the answer. A few weeks
later, she bought a T-shirt and began to follow its path form Texas cotton, rim
to Chinese factory to charity bin (慈善捐赠箱). The result
is an interesting new book, The tran’s of a T-shirt in
the Global Economy (经济).
Following
a T-shirt around the world in a way to make her point more interesting, but it
also frees Rivoli from the usual arguments over global trade. She goes wherever
the T-shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner. In China, Rivoli shows why a clothing factory, even with its poor conditions, means a step
towards a better care for the people who word there. In the colorful used-clohting
markets of Tanzania, she realizes that, “it is only in this final stage of life
that the T-shirt will meet a real market,” where the price of a shirt changes by the hour
and is different by its size and even color, Rivoli’s
book is full of me able people and scenes, like the noise, the bad air and the “muddy sweet smell (泥土香味) of the cotton,” she says. “Here in the factory, Shanghai
smells like shallot water Texas.”
Rivoli
is at her best when making those sorts of unexpected connections. She even
finds one between the free traders and those who are against globalization. The
changes opened up by trade are vase, she argues, but free markets need the
correcting force of politics to keep them in check. True economic progress
needs them both.
1.What
do we learn about Professor Rivoli?________
A. She
used to word on cotton farm.
B. She
wrote a book about world trade.
C. She
wants to give up her teaching job.
D. She
wears a T-shirt wherever she goes.
2.By
saying T-shirt “meet a real market”, Rivoli means in Tanzania _______.
A.
cheaper T-shirts are needed B. used T-shirts are hard to sell
C.
prices of T-shirts rise and fall frequently D. prices of T-shirts are
usually reasonable
3.What
does the word “them” underlined in the last paragraph refer to? _______
A. Free
markets. B. Price changes.
C.
Unexpected connections. D. Chances opened up by trade.
4.What
would be the best title for the text? ________
A. What
T-shirts Can Do to Help Cotton Farms
B. How T-shirts Are Made in Shanghai
C. How
T-shirts Are Sold in Tanzania
D. What
T-shirts Can Teach Us
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