Paraguay has failed to turn this charity into a development partnership. In 1990, the average Taiwanese was three times better off than the average Paraguayan; now the g________（C） is more than sevenfold. Of the 10,000 Taiwanese who migrated to Paraguay, many of them in the 1980s, only half remain. Taiwanese investment comprises little more than an ailing[2] industrial park—partly because skilled labour is short. （2）Taiwanese experts have passed on technical advice, but their lessons were ignored, says Carlos Paris, a trade official.

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然而，巴拉圭没能将这种施舍转变为一种发展伙伴关系（没有与台湾一起实现同步发展）。1990年，台湾人平均收入是巴拉圭人的3倍，现在差距已经超过7倍。移民到巴拉圭的一万名台湾人中，许多都是上世纪80年代去的，如今只剩半数还继续留在巴拉圭。台湾的投资也大多集中在一个工业园，现已每况愈下，部分是因为缺乏技术熟练的劳工。贸易官员卡洛斯•巴黎说，台湾专家提供了很多技术方面的建议，但是却没有传授任何经验。（“pass on”意为“传递”，在本句中是指“先后”有很多专家前往巴拉圭进行技术指导，也就是技术援助。“be ignored”的主语也应该是“台湾专家”，就是说，这些台湾专家只给巴拉圭从技术方面建言献策，但他们“忽视了”介绍自身工作积累的一些经验和教训，于是乎，没有前车之鉴，巴拉圭就难免总是摔跟头了。意思是明白了，语言组织是一件难事，凑合着看吧。）

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（3）Meanwhile, China looms larger. Last year, it supplied a quarter of Paraguay's imports, second only to Brazil. It buys much of the country's soya crop. For some Paraguayans, such as Jorge Samaniego, whose factory a________（D） Chinese motorcycles, lack of diplomatic ties is becoming a problem. It makes it harder for his Chinese suppliers to visit.