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Historically, the term “fair trade” has meant many things. The Fair Trade League was 1 in Britain in 1881 to restrict 2 from foreign countries. In the United States, businesses and labor unions 3 “fair trade” laws to construct what economist Joseph Stiglitz calls “barriers to imports.” These so called “anti-dumping(反倾销)” laws allow a company that 4 a foreign one of selling a product below cost to request that the government charge special taxes to protect it from “unfair” 5 .
Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the 6 of the organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight”. Their 7 aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their 8 by cutting out the inflated profits of the middlemen on whom they 9 for getting their goods to distant markets. Fair-trade products 10 cocoa, coffee, tea, and bananas do not compete with domestic European production, and 11 do not have a protectionist motive(动机).
This is how it works: In 12 for being paid a guaranteed price and meeting “agreed labor and environmental standards” (minimum wages, no farm chemicals ), poor-country farming cooperatives(合作社) receive a FAIRTRADE mark for their products, given 13 by the FAIRTRADE Labeling Organization. This mark 14 supermarkets and other businesses to sell the products at a higher than 15 price . Third-world farmers get their income increased , 16 first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.
The fair-trade movement, 17 in the 1980’s, has been growing rapidly. In a significant breakthrough in 1997, the British House of Commons 18 to serve only fair-trade coffee. By the end of 2007, more than 600 producers’ organizations, 19 1.4 million farmers in 58 countries, were selling fair-trade products. Today, a quarter of all bananas in UK supermarkets are sold under a FAIRTRADE mark. But FAIRTRADE-labeled products still represent a very 20 share – typically less than 1% – of global sales of cocoa, tea, coffee, etc.
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(答案→)B 解析：文章主要讲解了公平贸易联盟成立的历史及其成立的宗旨，并介绍了这个组织下所提供的产品都会有一种FAIRTRADE的标记同时介绍了这些公平贸易产品的市场情况。【小题1】A. discovered发现B. founded成立C. encouraged 鼓励D. promoted促进；前文讲到公平贸易联盟The Fair Trade League，所以应该是成立于1881年。故选 B【小题2】A. imports 进口B. exports出口C. output输出D. trade贸易；后文讲到barriers to imports.进口壁垒，所以此处应该是用来限制外国的进口的，故选A【小题3】A. disobey 违反B. break打破C. use 使用D. study学习，研究；在美国，商业和劳工组织都使用公平贸易的法律来构建所谓的进口贸易壁垒。故选C【小题4】A. suspects怀疑 D. advertises广告；这种就是所谓的反倾销条例，它允许一个公司怀疑另一个外国公司以低于成本价的方式而买产品。故选A【小题5】A. agreement协议B. contract合同C. game游戏D. competition竞争；这种反倾销条例是要求政府对那些公司征收特殊的税来保护其国内公司，免遭不公平的竞争，故选D【小题6】A. worries 担心B. minds想法C. comments评论D. projects项目；这种贸易保护主义的思想是背离了那些英国历年举行公平贸易周的那些组织者的初衷。minds想法，初衷，故选B【小题7】A. educational 教育意义的B. political政治的C. worthy有价值的，相称的D. immediate立刻的；这些组织者的真正目的是提高支付给发展中国家农民的前。符合题意的只有C.【小题8】A. favour偏爱，赞同B. benefit益处C. interest利益D. produce产品；为发展中国家的农民所提供的产品支付更高的价钱。故选D【小题9】这里运用了定语从句，depend on依赖于，on提前，句意：发展中国家的农民们依靠中间商将他们的产品远销海外。故选A【小题10】like像…，像可可粉、咖啡、茶和香蕉等公平贸易的产品就不会与欧洲国内的产品进行竞争，故选B【小题11】A. instead代替B. otherwise否则C. therefore因此D. anyhow无论怎样；前文讲到不会和国内的产品竞争因此不会有贸易保护主义的动机。故选C【小题12】贫困国家农场合作社将支付了保证金和满足劳动和环保标准的产品作为交换，来为他们的产品提供fairtrade的标记，故选D【小题13】A. secretly秘密地B. publicly 公共地C. officially官方地D. successfully成功地 ；这个标志是一个名叫FAIRTRADE Labeling Organization的官方组织所给的，故选C【小题14】这个标志允许超市和别的商店以一个更高的价钱出售这些产品，故选B【小题15】A. normal 通常的B. potential潜在的C. lowest最低的D. best最好的，前文讲到在超市或是别的商店卖的东西要比平常的贵，所以选A【小题16】while表示两个动作同时进行，第三世界的农民的收入会增加，同时第一世界的消费者们也会逐渐的感到是件好事，故选B【小题17】A. launched启动B. arranged安排C. invented发明D. developed开发；这个公平贸易运动是开始于20世界80年代，故选A【小题18】A. wanted想要B. refused 拒绝C. had有D. decided决定；句意：英国的下议院决定只提供这种公平贸易的咖啡，故选D【小题19】A. telling告诉B. representing代表C. Choosing选择D. receiving接收；到2007年为止，超过600个组织，代表着58个国家的140万农民正在出售这种公平贸易的产品。故选B【小题20】前文作者语意进行转折，所以虽然英国四分之一的香蕉都是这种标示的，但跟全球的可可粉，茶，咖啡来比，仍然是一个很小的份额，故选A

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