【培源吳】評論

慈濟釋疑原文第一段:For more than two years, people everywhere have been in the grip of a pandemic—but not necessarily the same one. In the affluent world, a viral respiratory disease, Covid, suddenly became a leading cause of death. In much of the developing world, by contrast, the main engine of destruction wasn’t this new disease, but its second-order effects: measures people took in response to the coronavirus. Richer nations and poorer nations differ in their vulnerabilities.原文第五段:Across much of the world, in short, the response to the coronavirus has ushered in a shadow pandemic. The coronavirus’s real death toll, then, has to be calculated not just in deaths from Covid, but also in deaths that would otherwise have been prevented, from malaria, TB, HIV, diabetes and more.  原文第六段:This shadow pandemic isn’t simply a story about disease—it’s about poverty, hunger, truncated education and stunted lives.選項(A) A Tale of Two Pandemics 正確，第一段先談到大眾熟知的 Covid Pandemic，以及因為疫情所實施的各種措施而衍生而出的另一 shadow pandemic，此受忽略的 shadow pandemic 涵蓋極廣，包括 Covid 以外的疾病 (如 malaria, TB, HIV, diabetes)、貧窮、飢餓等，由於這個 shadow pandemic 與 Covid Pandemic 的治理息息相關，受其影響甚巨，故稱為 shadow pandemic。選項(C) The Survival of the Poor Countries in the Covid Pandemic 不能涵蓋到 此 shadow pandemic 的重點與內容，且文中的落後與貧窮國家受到的威脅是 來自 Covid 以外的疾病與其他因為 Covid Pandemic 的治理而衍生的影響， 反而受到 Covid 直接的傷害較小。是故，選項(C)不正確。