If it takes you six hours to read this book, somewhere in the world 2,500 people will have died of starvation or of hunger ª²

    Why are so many   2   ? Susan George affirms with conviction, and with solid evidence, that it is not because there   3    too many passengers on ¡° Spaceship Earth ¡± , not because of bad weather of changing climates, but because food   4    by the rich.   5    the poor go hungry.

    The multinational agribusiness corporations, Western governments with their food ¡° aid ¡± policies and supposedly neutral multilateral development organizations   6    responsibility for their    7   . They all work in cooperation   8    local elites themselves nurtured and protected by the powerful in the   9    world. United States agripower  gives the way, leads  the  pack and is   10  imposing its control over the whole planet.

    Only those   11    people who can become consumers will eat in the Brave New World being shaped    12    the well ª² fed. The standard liberal solutions to   13    the world ¡ª population control or the Green Revolution ¡ª are just what the hungry poor don't need. All they need is social change, otherwise known as   14   . With that, they could, and would, resolve most of their problems   15   .

1.A. spend               B. read                    C. finish           D. overtake

2.A. hungry             B. poor                    C. rich             D. civilized

3.A. are                    B. were                   C. aren't           D. left

4.A. was offered        B. is controlled             C. is meant         D. is yielded