Banker Wins Nobel Peace PrizeMuhammad Yunus and the bank he founded are honored for their

Banker Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded are honored for their work to help the world’s poor. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. They won the award for their efforts to help bring millions of people, especially women, out of poverty.

“Every single individual on earth has both the potential and the right to live a decent life. Across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development,”the Nobel Committee said in its citation.

The Peace Prize is one of the biggest honors in the world. Yunus is the first Nobel Prize winner from Bangladesh, a nation of about 141 million people. In 1983, Yunnus and the Grameen Bank started a now worldwide system that lets people borrow small amounts of money to start businesses. Through these loans, called“microcredit”, the world’s poor have been able to buy much needed things like cows to start a dairy, chickens to run an egg business, or a cell phone in places where there is no other access to a phone.

Yunus said he would use part of the $ 1.4 million award money to create a company that will make low-cost, high-nutrition food for the poor. The rest of his share will go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh.“I am so, so happy, it’s really great news for the whole nation,”Yunus said after hearing of his win.

Since the bank began, it has lent $ 5.72 billion to more than 6 million Bangladeshis. About 97 percent of the borrowers are women.

56．Why does Nobel Peace Prize of 2006 come to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank?

　　A．Because they helped the rich to become richer.

　　B．Because they helped children to finish their education.

　　C．Because they helped millions of people, especially women, out of poverty.

　　D．Because they helped millions of people, especially men, out of poverty.

57．It can be inferred that microcredit system     .

　　A．has made all the people in Bangladesh start their own business

　　B．has a history of about 23 years

　　C．only loaned money to the people of Bangladesh

　　D．has spread all over the world for thirty years

58．Which statement is true according to the passage?

A．The award money will be used in setting up an eye hospital and a food company for the poor.

B．All the $ 1.4 million award money will be shared by the poor in Banladesh.

C．Muhammad Yunus will loan the money to the poor women in Bangladesh.

D．Muhammad Yunus will save the $1.4 million award money in Grameen Bank.

59．According to the passage, we can infer that the average amount of microcredit might be     .

A．140 dollars      B．95 dollars       C．970 dollars      D．572 dollars