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The main goal of the World Bank is to fight poverty. But, for almost ten years, the World Bank has also investigated financial crimes by governments and bank officials.
In 1996, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn warned of the need to deal with the “cancer of corruption（*）”.
The World Bank defines corruption as offering, giving, receiving or asking for anything of value to influence the action of a public official example, a local official may demand that a foreign company pay him money ,or a bribe ,to permit a project to go forward.
The World Bank says corruption is the biggest barrier to development uption hurts the poor people who are supposed to gain from development bank loans and aid.
The World Bank created a group of anti-corruption investigators in later became the Department of Institutional Integrity bank says the DII has investigated almost two thousand accusations of corruption. The Bank has twenty-two investigators. It spends about ten million dollars each year on anti-corruption measures.
The current. World Bank President was appointed last year. He says he will increase number of investigators and the budget for fighting corruption. He has also suspended loans to India, Kenya, Bangladesh and other nations suspected of corruption.
Reports say some members of the World Bank do not agree with his actions say it is not fair to deny the necessity of a loan for purposes such as health care r all ,only a small proportion of the money is related to corruption.
Critics say the Bank can’t carefully supervise（监督）the loans and projects it finances. The Bank approves about two hundred and forty new projects each year. And it has more than one thousand existing loans, each of which may contain many agreements.
In addition, the World Bank is part of the World Bank Group includes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has one hundred and eighty-four member nations. In 2004 ,the World Bank Group provided or guaranteed more than $ 2,500,000,000 loans.
1．What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．The World Bank fights the “cancer of corruption”.
B．The main goal of the World Bank is to fight poverty.
C．What is connected with corruption.
D．Corruption is the biggest barrier to development.
2．Which of the following isn’t a way to fight corruption?
A．Establishing a group of anti-corruption investigators.
B．Investigating accusations of corruption.
C．Increasing the budget for fighting corruption.
D．Approving more new projects each year.
3．The current World Bank President .
A．believes loans to India are not enough
B．has been at his post for many years
C．will add more money to fight corruption
D．is supported by every member of the World Bank
4．The last two paragraphs intend to tell us .
A．corruption is hard to deal with since the Bank provides many loans each year
B．The World Bank is the largest bank in the world
C．the World Bank has not provided any loans to India Because of corruption
D．the World Bank should not devoted its energy to fighting corruption
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