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[单项选择]For most of the 20th century, Asia asked itself what it could learn from the modern, innovating West. Now the question must be reversed. What can the West’s overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞涨的) nations learn from a nourishing Asia
Just a few decades ago, Asia’s two giants were stagnating (停滞不前) under faulty economic ideologies. However, once China began embracing market economy reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth. Crucially, as they opened up their markets, they balanced market economy with sensible government direction. As the Indian economist Amartya Sen has wisely said, "The invisible hand of the market has often relied heavily on the visible hand of government."
Contrast this middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically over-board in their own ways. Since the 1980s, America has been increasingly clinging to the ideology of uncontrolled free markets and dismissing the role of government—follo
A. Market economy reform plus government intervention.
B. Copying western-style economic behavior.
C. Heavy reliance on the hand of government.
D. Timely reform of government at all levels.
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The whole world put attention to the South Asia where the
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restaurants served "tsunami" sushi rolls. The word was used in dozens of
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tragic meaning.
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{{/U}} solemn use, much the way "Ground Zero", for the site of the World
Trade Center, had its meaning {{U}} (50) {{/U}} from "starting
point" to the center of the Sept. 11 tragedy, said Paul Payack, head of Global
Language Monitor. Payack said that since the Dec. 26 tsunami, the {{U}} (51)
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of 88,000 articles in major media.
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