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Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design.
Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design.
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2016-03-05
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Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes at reducing population growth—but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard.
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 3. 99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1991 and 2000, and Brazilian women now have only 2. 6 children on average. Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 2000, an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to, among other things, soap operas(通俗电视连续剧)and installment(分期付款)plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect, role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil’s most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
"Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction, they describe middle and upper class values-not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. " They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package. "
Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and consumption was incompatible(不相容的)with unlimited reproduction," says Martine.
The phrase "puts it down to"(Line 1, Para. 3)is closest in meaning to "___
选项
A、attributes it to
B、finds it a reason for
C、sums it up as
D、compares it to
答案
A
解析
词语理解。由上下文确定put it down to中的it指上文巴西成功降低人口增长率的事实,句中to后接的是导致这一事实的两大原因(电视剧和分期付款计划),前后显然是一种因果关系。
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