专八改错练习及详解(8)

专八改错练习第八篇：

One of our main arguments is that we in Western countries actually have part to play in causing the __1__
problems of the Third World. Many Third World
countries are saddle with immense debt burdens, for __2__
example. They were lent money with low interest rates __3__
in the 1970s, when money flooded into Western banks
from the oil-producing countries and was lent out to
the Third World. The interest rates have then been risen __4__
dramatically. So you have a situation where a country
in many cases can’t even repay the interest, letting alone __5__
the capital, on the debt. And I suppose the best example
from what I have come across is a country in West
Africa where the consumption, the local consumption
of peanuts was banned, because peanuts, if they are
imported can bring in a great deal of foreign income. __6__
The peanut is a major source of protein in this country.
So you have people go hungry as a result of that. __7__
The peanuts were exported to Great Britain and the
United States to feed our cattle. Those cattle then produced
a surplus of milk which we do not know what to do with.
We have enough milk, more milk than we can
cope with in the Western World. And also that milk __8__
was transformed into dried milk powder and then taken
back to this country to help feed children who were
suffering from malnutrition. So that’s the kind of insanely __9__
economic relationship that we have got ourselves in __10__
the Third World.