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Reading Comprehension B Answer the following questions.

A Read the article below. 1 . In paragraph I, we are told (-)

a. when people in Rwanda started to use plastic bags.
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Grameen Bank b. what plants can’t grow in Rwanda.
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c. what will make Rwanda a pleasant city.
d. why Rwanda became a polluted place.

I About twenty-five years ago, Mr. M. Yunus was visiting a village in Bangladesh. While 2. Why were the streets of Rwanda flooded? (paragraph I)
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there, he bought a bamboo stool from a young boy who made bamboo stools. The boy had .............................................................................................................................................
good hands and made beautiful stools, but he was so poor that he couldn’t afford to buy
the bamboo, the material he needed for his stools. He had to borrow the money from the 3 . According to paragraph II, the government of Rwanda (-)

5 bamboo sellers and then pay them most of the profit he made on each stool he sold. After a. put a ban on cloth bags.
selling the stools, he was left with so little money that once again, he couldn’t buy bamboo, b. doesn’t allow anyone to sell plastic bags.

and he had to borrow more money. And so, the cycle continued with no way out for the
young boy. c. is causing damage to Rwanda.
d. ignored the results of the study.
II As Yunus walked around the village, he found forty-two people who were in the same

10 situation – trapped in a cycle of poverty with no escape. When he added up the amount of 4 . According to the government of Rwanda, what plan wouldn’t prevent people from using
money that they needed in order to get out of that cycle, it was just twenty-seven dollars for plastic bags in Rwanda? (paragraph III)
all of them. Yunus remembers, “I was ashamed of myself for being part of a society that could .............................................................................................................................................
not provide even twenty-seven dollars to forty-two hardworking, skilled people.”
5. COMPLETE THE SENTENCE ACCORDING TO PARAGRAPH IV.
III Yunus decided to lend the money to the forty-two people in need. He told the people to *

15 pay it back whenever they could. They used the money to buy materials and kept the profits The story of Kanza’s cows shows .................................................................................... .
for themselves. They slowly collected enough money to pay Yunus back and even expanded 6 . How did the government make sure that even tourists don’t use plastic bags?
their businesses. After some time, Yunus got all of his money back, so he decided to do the (paragraph IV)
same thing in other villages. He always got his money back. Soon, Yunus started his own
bank, the Grameen Bank, with a new approach to lending money. .............................................................................................................................................

7 . Who was afraid of losing money because of the ban on plastic bags? (paragraph V)
20 IV The regular banking system is based on the idea that the more money you have, the more
you can borrow. Grameen Bank is different: It lends money to those who have almost nothing, .............................................................................................................................................
especially to poor women and children. The loans that Grameen Bank gives are small, and the
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people can pay back the money a little at a time. 8. In what way did the ban help Rwanda’s economy? (paragraph V)
a. They don’t have to make new plastic bags anymore.
V So far, Yunus’s bank has lent around a billion dollars to more than two million borrowers
b. They now use cheaper kinds of bags.
25 across Bangladesh. The economy of the country has improved greatly since Grameen Bank
c. More tourists now want to visit the clean country.
opened. “This loan changed my life,” says Rihaa, a Bangladeshi who has recently finished
paying back a loan to Grameen Bank. “I still work hard. But now, instead of using the money d. Travelers to Rwanda have begun to tell the world about the ban.
I make to pay back expensive loans, I can use the money for my family.”

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