سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 6181)

the hands of a few. The great powers, in turn, enriched themselves lavishly at the expense of the colonized peoples who were subjected to poverty, hardship and deprivation. Because of these policies, poverty remained the lot of the majority. But now that globalization has become the frame of reference, there is no justification for an ever-smaller minority to become richer while the majority poor become even poorer. A situation in which one segment of the global population lives in opulence while most of the rest live in dire poverty is morally reprehensible. We can, and in fact we must work to reduce the number of those who live in extreme poverty so that this will be a better world for all. The words great powers in the passage refer to …………………