Muhammad Yunus earned the nickname “banker to the poor” by giving tiny cash loans to the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. That simple idea, however, has grown into an international movement. __ 47__ He taught at Middle Tennessee State University before returning to Bangladesh in 1972 to teach economics at Chittagong University. __ 48__ The amount was the equivalent of $27. Two years later, Yunus founded the Grameen Bank to make such loans on a wider scale, mostly to people with no collateral who would not be served by typical banks. __49__ As it spread to other countries, it gave thousands of people the opportunity to pull themselves out of poverty. Yunus and Grameen were jointly given the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006. __50__ 【題組】
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(A) Peace can never be achieved unless people find ways to break out of poverty. (B) Yunus’s home town of Chittagong was part of India until the Partition of 1947.
(C) Mr. Yunus was born in a developed country.
(D) Yunus earned a Ph.D. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1969
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