"We’re using the wrong word," says Sean Drysdale, a desperate doctor from a rural hospital at Hlabisa in northern KwaZulu-Natal. "This isn’t an epidemic, it’s a disaster. " A recent UNIEF report, which states that almost one-third of Swaziland’s 900,000 people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, supports this diagnosis. HIV is spreading faster in southern Africa than anywhere else in the world.
But is anyone paying attention Despite the fact that most of the world’s 33.5 million HIV/AIDS cases are in sub-Saharan Africa—with an additional 4 million infected each year—the priorities at last week’s Organization of African Unity summit were conflict resolution and economies development. Yet the epidemic could have a greater effect on economic development—or, rather, the lack of it—than many politicians suspect.
While business leaders are more concerned about the 2K mi
A. The poor economic power in the African countries
B. The industrial infrastructure is complex
C. The informal sector is widespread
D. The lack of government concern
"We’re using the wrong word," says Sean Drysdale, a desperate doctor from a rural hospital at Hlabisa in northern KwaZulu-Natal. "This isn’t an epidemic, it’s a disaster. " A recent UNIEF report, which states that almost one-third of Swaziland’s 900,000 people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, supports this diagnosis. HIV is spreading faster in southern Africa than anywhere else in the world.
But is anyone paying attention Despite the fact that most of the world’s 33.5 million HIV/AIDS cases are in sub-Saharan Africa—with an additional 4 million infected each year—the priorities at last week’s Organization of African Unity summit were conflict resolution and economies development. Yet the epidemic could have a greater effect on economic development—or, rather, the lack of it—than many politicians suspect.
While business leaders are more concerned about the 2K mi
A. The words "epidemic" and "disaster" are misspelled in the UNIEF report
B. The word "epidemic" is not severe enough to describe the situation
C. The word "disaster" is too severe to describe the situation
D. The word "diagnosis" is left out by some unknown reason
"Making money is a dirty game," says the Institute of Economic Affairs. summing up the attitude of British novelists towards business. The IEA. a free market think-tank, has just published a collection of essays (The Representation of Business in English Literature) by five academics chronicling the hostility of the country’s men and women of letters to the sordid business of making money. The implication is that Britain’s economic performance Is retarded by an anti-industrial culture.
Rather than blaming rebellious workers and incompetent managers for Britain’s economic worries. then, we can put George Orwell and Martin Amis in the dock instead. From Dickens’s Scrooge to Amis’s John Self in his 1980s novel Money, novelists have conjured up a rogue’s gallery of mean. greedy, amoral money-men that has alienated their impressionable readers from the noble pursuit of capitalism.
The argument has been well made before, mos
A. posing a contract
B. justifying an assumption
C. making a comparison
D. explaining a phenomenon
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