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2017年雅思考试阅读集训巩固练习题 　　黄金时代是在我们的前面，而不在我们的后面，以下是小编为大家有哪些信誉好的足球投注网站整理的2017年雅思考试阅读集训巩固练习题，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们应届毕业生! 　　Volatility Kills 　　You should spend about 20 minutes on Question 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage below. 　　A 　　Despite gun battles in the capital of Chad, rioting in Kenya and galloping inflation in Zimbabwe, the economics of sub-Saharan Africa arc, as a whole, in better shape than they were a few years ago. The World Bank has reported recently that this part of the continent experienced a respectable growth rate of 5.6 percent in 2006 and a higher rate from 1995 to 2005 than in previous decades. The bank has given a cautious assessment that the region may have reached a turning point. An overriding question for developmental economists remains whether the upswing will continue so Africans can grow their way out of a poverty that relegates some 40 percent of the nearly 744 million in that region to living on less than a dollar a day. The optimism, when inspected more closely, may be short-lived because of the persistence of a devastating pattern of economic volatility that has lingered for decades. 　　B 　　“In reality, African countries grow as fast as Asian countries and other developing countries during the good times, but afterward they see growth collapses,” comments Jorge Arbache, a senior World Bank economist. “How to prevent collapses may be as important as promoting growth.” If these collapses had not occurred, he observes, the level of gross domestic product for each citizen of the 48 nations of sub-Saharan Africa would have been a third higher. 　　C 　　The prerequisite to prevent the next crash are not in place, according to a World Bank study issued in January. Is Africa#39;s Recent Growth Robust? The growth period that began in 1995, driven by a commodities boom spurred in particular by demand from China, may not be sustainable, because the economic fundamentals—new investment and the ability to stave off inflation, among other factors—are absent