在高楼林立的现代都市里,在人们的()中,本已零落的古建筑更加凋零,每天都面临着彻底消失的命运,如果教育能让孩子从小感受古建筑所蕴含的魅力,让他们懂得珍惜,就能最终积累出保护古代建筑最()的力量。依次填入括号部分最恰当的一项是()
A. 忙碌;可靠
B. 漠视;坚实
C. 误解;基础
D. 麻木;强大
Do you remember the Millennium (千禧年) Goals When world leaders celebrated the year 2000 with a serious promise to reduce poverty (贫穷) and hunger, check the spread of AIDS, get boys and girls into school, and improve public health, all by 2015Well, three years down the road, and the UNDP’s yearly collection of facts and figures already shows that if we carry on as we are, the only goal likely to be met is that for reducing poverty by a half, and that is entirely due to the success of one country--China. It is so vast that the fast-growing economy in China lifts millions of people above the poverty line, even though in Africa, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, people have actually been getting poorer.Otherwise, progress is good only in parts. East Asia should meet its goal of reducing hunger by a half by 2015, and Latin America and the Caribbean are not far behind, but at the present speed of progress, Africa and South Asia won’t get there for another hundred years.The good news is that it can be done--there are success stories. Ghana--an economic basket case in the eighties and early nineties--has managed to find a way out of its difficulties and it’s now comfortably in the middle range of countries, way ahead of the much more naturally wealthy Nigeria. For Congo, Cambodia or Iraq, ruined by war, or every southern African country damaged by AIDS, there is a Mauritius or a South Korea steadily working its way up the league table towards a better life for its people. What economic situation is best expressed as "basket case" ( Paragraph 4) ?()
A. Very bad.
B. Promising.
C. Unexpected.
D. Naturally developed.