Question 19
Cloze PassageJAMB 1993 Passage IV (cloze): Food aid and population planning
Did you ever pause to think that eating and mating may be ________ (16) to the extent of becoming targets for a planned international political strategy? If by an accident of geography, you happen to live in a region of Africa, Asia or Latin America that is one of the ________ (17) of foreign 'aid', then pay ________ (18) to an insight provided by Josne de Castro, a Brazilian sociologist and a former president of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The United States imposes birth control, not to help the poor countries — no one believes any more in its 'disinterested' aid programme — but because that is its strategic, defence ________ (19). We must ________ (20) that the pill is North America's best guarantee of continuing the domination of the Third World. If ever the Third World achieves normal development, Washington's 'Roman Empire' will ________ (21).
These views were ________ (22) about a decade later, when R. T. Ravenholt of the United States Office of Population stated that the United States was seeking to provide the means by which one quarter of the world's fertile women can be ________ (23).
These two statements are indicative of the ________ (24) of interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, defence strategists and food politicians. Whether or not population planning is a ________ (25) of the ruling elite for finding a scapegoat for its ineptitude, it is debatable. However, it is evident that there exists an inextricable link between food aid and population planning policies.
The United States imposes birth control, not to help the poor countries — no one believes any more in its 'disinterested' aid programme — but because that is its strategic, defence ________ (19). We must ________ (20) that the pill is North America's best guarantee of continuing the domination of the Third World. If ever the Third World achieves normal development, Washington's 'Roman Empire' will ________ (21).
These views were ________ (22) about a decade later, when R. T. Ravenholt of the United States Office of Population stated that the United States was seeking to provide the means by which one quarter of the world's fertile women can be ________ (23).
These two statements are indicative of the ________ (24) of interests of multinational pharmaceutical corporations, defence strategists and food politicians. Whether or not population planning is a ________ (25) of the ruling elite for finding a scapegoat for its ineptitude, it is debatable. However, it is evident that there exists an inextricable link between food aid and population planning policies.
Passage IV, gap 19: The United States imposes birth control, not to help the poor countries — no one believes any more in its 'disinterested' aid programme — but because that is its strategic, defence ________ (19).
- A.aim
- B.problem
- C.method
- D.policy
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Answer: D (policy)
Explanation
A government's planned course of action on defence is its 'defence policy'.