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43 The presence of a lovely animal can be for the elderly who live by themselves.
aggravating disrespectful domesticated therapeutic
44 More damaging are the little violations of ethical standards forced on managers or other employees who are asked
every day to sacrifice personal values for company gain.
Management will be at stake while little sacrifice on workers’ personal values is forced to happen.
Employees’ little sacrifice on personal values for company gain is considered more damaging.
Employees sacrifice their values to rescue the damaging ethical standards in companies.
Ethical standards being violated means more damage of the company gain.
45 The green fairy tale of replacing fossil fuel with biofuel, such as palm oil, begins to look more like an
environmental nightmare.
The wide use of fossil fuel is believed to be a nightmare to the environment for its burning is causing severe
environmental problems.
The long use of fossil fuel is being replaced by palm oil, which is called biofuel and believed to bring a cleaner
environment.
Replacing fossil fuel with biofuel was believed to be good to the environment, but now it seems to cause more
problems.
Replacing fossil fuel with biofuel like palm oil is a green fairy tale because biofuel is called green oil.
46 African voters are losing patience with faulty elections that often exclude popular candidates and are marred by
serious irregularities.
Many voters in Africa have lost in their fight against the government, which often removes popular candidates
from the ballots in elections.
In Africa, the citizenry is irritated by elections which often exclude well-liked contenders and are marked with
unfair practices.
It is common to see that candidates in popular elections in Africa are often those with moral or financial
liabilities.
Many African voters are not happy about problematic elections in which candidates smear each other
irresponsibly.
第47 題至第 50 題為篇章結構,各題請依文意,從四個選項中選出最合適者,各題答案內容不重複
When the Doha global trade negotiations collapsed in July, 2008, many countries shared the blame. 47 Indian
consumers have suffered during the recent food crisis, with inflation over 12 percent for some commodities. Removing
agricultural trade barriers would surely have helped get cheaper food to India’s many millions of poor citizens. Yet Indian
trade minister Kamal Nath declined to open India further to farm imports. 48
Essentially, India’s politicians fear that liberalizing agriculture will expose their farmers to catastrophe if food prices
collapse in the future. India has some efficient farmers who would gain from a boost in trade. 49 Land holdings are small,
productivity is low, mechanization is minimal, and big business faces restrictions in consolidating farming. 50 Over
100,000 Indian farmers have comm itted s uicide in the past decade. Many reasons are cited for this: crop failure, bad monsoons,
mounting debts, and alcoholism. The government’s response has been to award 100,000 rupees compensation to the families of
farmers who have taken their own lives, a policy which has been criticized for creating a perverse incentive to suicides or
murders.
47 But one of the more surprising culprits was India.
What was behind this decision?
But vast areas of the agricultural sector are hugely inefficient.
By refusing to move on from its outdated approach to agriculture, India is condemning farmers to misery.
48 But the fundamental problem is that many Indian farmers will never make a proper living on their own land.
What was behind this decision?
And there is also a humanitarian problem.
But one of the more surprising culprits was India.
49 But vast areas of the agricultural sector are hugely inefficient.
And there is also a humanitarian problem.
But the fundamental problem is that many Indian farmers will never make a proper living on their own land.
What was behind this decision?
50 By refusing to move on from its outdated approach to agriculture, India is condemning farmers to misery.
But the fundamental problem is that many Indian farmers will never make a proper living on their own land.
But vast areas of the agricultural sector are hugely inefficient.
And there is also a humanitarian problem.