| We enter the new millennium with more
poor people than the world has ever known. Out of 6 billion now (compared with
fewer than 2 billion in 1900), 1.3 billion are below the absolute poverty line,
living on less than $ 1 a day, and 2.8 billion eke out survival on less than $ 2
a day. Inequality has multiplied enormously. The gap between the one-fifth of the world’ s people who live in the poorest countries and the one-fifth who live in the richest countries is now 71 to 1. In 1990 it was 60 to 1 and in 1960 it was 30 to 1. Yet in Asia, the absolutely poor are now one-third of the total, compared with onehalf in 1970. Their average life expectancy is 65 years, compared with 48 years then, and 70 percent of adults are now literate, compared with 40 percent. So there has been improvement. But excruciating misery is s A. to realize with strain. B. to base on. C. to suffer from. D. to fail to get. 更多"{{B}}Test 3{{/B}} We en"的相关试题:我来回答: 提交
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