[originaltext]Money from migrant workers now exceeds the combined total of all

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Money from migrant workers now exceeds the combined total of all direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America -- 62.3 billion dollars. 23 billion dollars of that was sent back to Mexico, mostly from workers living in the United States. It now ranks along with oil and tourism as Mexico’s biggest foreign currency earner. The Inter-American Development Bank, which supports the region with aid and other help, says the remittances, as they’re known, will increase by about fifteen percent a year during the next four years, topping one-hundred billion dollars by 2010. The bank describes the money as a very effective poverty reduction programme because it keeps between eight and ten million families above the poverty line. But it says it also means the economies of the region are not generating enough jobs to keep workers from leaving in the first place. Another problem is that as much of the money is sent back in small amounts, it’s difficult to track. The average is between a hundred and a hundred-and-fifty dollars a month. That in turn makes it an unpredictable source of revenue for governments to tap into. The bank says it wants people to get away from what it calls cash to cash flows and into account to account transfers but the bank says the recent crackdown on illegal immigrants by the American authorities could hinder efforts to get migrants to use banks.

选项 A、The amount of money sent home by migrant workers to their families in Latin America has reached more than $62 billion.
B、The number of the money could surplus $100 billion in four years’ time.
C、The combined total of all direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America is less than all the remittances by the migrant workers.
D、The money will increase at an annual rate of 20%.

答案 D

解析 此题是判断题。由文中的信息,选项a、b、c都是正确的,都能在文章中直接找到,只有d是错误的,正确的年增长率应该是15%,只要能抓住这个信息,很容易得出答案。
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