Question

In the social and economic fields the UN increased its efforts to fight against poverty, ignorance, hunger, and disease and to help raise the standards of living in the newly developing countries.

The sixteenth General Assembly placed considerable emphasis on the idea of economic development by planning the current decade as the United Nations Decade of Economic Development. The agreement called upon UN members to help the newly developing countries achieve a minimum rate of growth of 5% by the end of the decade. It also emphasized the need for industrial development and encouraged cooperation with respect to regional-development programs.

In the past the organs and agencies of the UN in the economic field have concentrated largely on economic development. Increased attention was directed towards the need for balance and integration in economic and social development. It was emphasized at various UN meetings that particular attention must be given in the new nations to such problems as urbanization, housing, community development, and child welfare.

The Assembly has also offered a $100,000,000 world food program designed to use surplus (过剩的) food to encourage the development of needy countries. The program would improve upon the present unsatisfactory method of disposing of surplus food supplies and would enable the poorer nations to use more of their resources for development purposes.

Many of the UN specialized agencies increased their budgets. This means that such agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the World Health Organization, and the International Labor Organization will be pushing ahead at an increasing rate to deal with problems in their respective fields.

The Assembly again set $150,000,000 as the target figure for the work of the UN Technical Assistance Program and the Special Fund. If funds are available, technical assistance will move ahead at a faster speed.

 

72. What was the sixteenth General Assembly’s goal?

  A. To help increase the economy of the world.

  B. To help emphasize the importance of the economic field.

  C. To help newly developing countries to develop.

  D. To get their ideas accepted by all the UN members.

73. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

  A. UN has done a lot to help all the member countries.

  B. UN has called upon all the new countries to develop economy.

  C. UN has realized all their goals to develop the world economy.

  D. UN has done a lot to help develop the economy of the new countries.

74. The attitude of the author of the above passage is ______.

  A. praising                B. objective            C. personal            D. imaginary

75. The best topic of the above passage might be ______.

  A. UN, Efforts to Help Needy Countries 

  B. UN, a Helpful and Developing Organization

  C. UN, Past and Future Developments   

  D. UN, Balance of World Economy

Answer 1

72―75 CDAA