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Passage Two
篇章二
Three years ago, Puncha Maya, her husband and five children lived in a shaky flat in Southern Nepal.
三年前，Puncha Maya和她丈夫，以及他們的五個孩子都住在尼泊爾南部搖搖欲墜的房子里。
Every morning, the parents walked the dirt roads seeking work in the rice fields.
每天早上，這對夫妻都要穿過塵土飛揚的路，去稻田里找工作。
After the harvest, the family went begging for food.
豐收之后，這家人只能乞討為生。
Today, the Mayas own a small paper-bag making company.
而今，Maya一家擁有了一個小小的紙袋制造廠。
With the money they've earned, the Mayas have purchased a small plot, on which they grow vegetables and raise goats for additional income.
靠著掙來的錢，Maya一家買了一小塊地來種蔬菜、養山羊，這樣可以增加些額外收入。
In fact, the family has saved $68.
事實上，他們家已經攢了68美元。
This is remarkable in a country with an average annual income of $160.
這在年均收入只有160美元的國家，不容小覷。
Grace Mbakwa, her husband and eight children once lived hand-to-mouth in Cameroon.
Grace Mbakwa，她丈夫，還有8個孩子，以前在喀麥隆只能勉強果腹。
Today, the Mbakwas run a clothing manufacturing business and own a home.
而今，Mbakwa一家經營著服裝加工的生意，有了一套房子。
They are able to send their children to school, at a costly annual sum of $2 800.
他們能夠把孩子送到每年要花2800美元的學校念書。
The idea of starting her own business seemed impossible to Pilar Moya, a poor woman from Atahualpa high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.
Pilar Moya以前從未想過自己竟然能做生意,她來自阿塔瓦爾帕，一個住在厄瓜多爾的安第斯山脈上可憐女人。
Today, however, she is one of the proud owners of a bakery specializing in sweet cakes.
但是現在，她已經驕傲地成為了一家專做甜點的西點店店主。
These businesses are part of economic revolution sweeping the developing world.
作為橫掃發展中國家的經濟革命，這些生意僅是其中一部分。
The sponsor is the Trickle Up Program— a non-profit organization founded by New Yorkers Glen and Mildred Leet.
是“涓流項目”在資助這些生意，一個由紐約人Glen和Mildred Leet成立的非盈利性組織。
This organization offers people like the Mayas, the Mbakwas and Moyas modest $100 grants.
這個組織會適當撥款100美元，資助像Mayas，Mbakwas，還有Moyas這樣的家庭。
Since 1979, the program has helped over 130,000 of the world's neediest people in 90 countries win small life-saving victories over poverty.
從1979年以后，這個項目惠及90個國家，幫助了130000多個世界上最貧苦的人們，救之于水火，讓他們戰勝貧窮，自給自足。
And it has turned conventional thinking about foreign aid on its head.
這也顛覆了人們對外國援助的看法。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
根據你剛才聽到的篇章，回答19至21題。
Question 19. What do we learn about Puncha Maya's family of three years ago?
問題19. 我們了解到3年前Puncha Maya的家庭是什么樣的？
Question 20. What are the Mbakwas able to do now?
問題20. 現在Mbakwa一家可以做什么了？
Question 21. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
問題21. 說話者主要在談論什么內容？
