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　　Twenty five years ago, Muhammed Yunus, a Bangladeshi economics teacher, was visiting a village when he met a woman who made bamboo stools. She couldn't afford to buy the bamboo to make the stools, so she had to borrow the money from the bamboo sellers and then pay them a large part of the profit from each one she sold. There was so little money left for her to keep that she couldn't afford to buy more bamboo, so she had to borrow more money. And so the cycle continued with no way out for her. She couldn't borrow money from friends or family because they were as poor as she was. She couldn't borrow from the bank because she had no collateral (property or land) to guarantee that she would pay back the loan.

　　Yunus went around the village and found forty-two people who were in the same situation--trapped in a cycle of poverty with no escape. When he added up the amount of money that they needed to break free of the cycle, it came to just twenty-seven dollars. As Yunus says“I felt ashamed of myself for being part of a society which could not provide even twenty-seven dollars to forty-two hardworking, skilled human beings.”

　　He lent them the money and told them to pay it back whenever they could. He got all of it back, so he went to other villages and did the same thing. He always got his money back. The official banks didn't want to get involved in what he was doing, so Yunus started his own bank. The Grameen bank was born, and with it a new approach to lending moneymiero-credit.

1．Which of the following correctly shows the“cycle”the poor woman had to go through?

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A．　　　　　　B．

C．　　　　　　　D．

2．Why were official banks unwilling to lend money to the poor villagers?

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A．There wouldn't be much profit.

B．The villagers might not be able to pay it back.

C．The villagers live too far away from the cities.

D．The villagers needed too much money.

3．Which of the following is not stated but can be inferred from the passage?

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A．The Grameen bank would be a complete failure.

B．The villagers were hardworking people.

C．The villagers were skilled people.

D．The villagers were honest, trustworthy people.

4．This passage shows Muhammed Yunus was _____.

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A．kind-hearted　　　B．very rich

C．an expert banker　D．excellent teacher

Answer 1

答案：D;B;D;A