In recent years, the world has made progress in reducing deaths among children under the age of five. A new report says an estimated 6.9 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. That compares to about twelve million in1990.
The report says child mortality rates have fallen in all areas. It says the number of deaths is down by at least 50 percent in eastern, western and southeastern Asia. The number also fell in North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ties Boerma is head of the WHO’s Department of Health Statistics and Informatics. He says most child deaths happen in just a few areas.
TIES BOERMA: “Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia face the greatest challenges in child survival. More than eighty percent of child deaths in the world occur in these two regions. About half of child deaths occur in just five countries—India, which actually takes twenty-four percent of the global total; Nigeria, eleven percent; the Democratic Republic of Congo, seven percent; Pakistan, five percent and China, four percent of under-five deaths in the world.”
Ties Boerma notes that, in developed countries, one child in one hundred fifty-two dies before his or her fifth birthday. But south of the Sahara Desert, one out of nine children dies before the age of five. In Asia, the mortality rate is one in sixteen.
The report lists the top five causes of death among children under five worldwide. They are pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and problems both before and during birth.
Tessa Wardlaw is with the U-N Children’s Fund. She is pleased with the progress being made in Sub-Saharan Africa. The area has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world. But she says the rate of decline in child deaths has more than doubled in Africa.
TESSA WARDLAW: “We welcome the widespread progress in child survival, but we importantly want to stress that there’s a lot of work that remains to be done. There’s unfinished business and the fact is that today on average, around nineteen thousand children are still dying every day from largely preventable causes.”
The World Health Organization says one way to solve these problems is to make sure health care services are available to women. In this way, medical problems can be avoided or treated when identified.
1.Since 1990, the number of the children who died before 5 in the world has dropped by about__________.
A.6,900,000 B.12,000,000 C.1,200,000 D.5,100,000
2. What does the underlined word “mortality” ( in Paragraph 2)mean?
A.illness B.reduction C.death D.problem
3.According to the passage, the readers are likely to believe that __________.
A.child mortality rates have fallen just in five areas
B.Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world
C.in developed countries, no children die before the age of five
D.the world has made little progress in reducing the rates of child mortality
4.______ is the top-one cause of death among children under five worldwide.
A.Global warming B.Malaria C.Pneumonia D.Diarrhea
5.What will be probably referred to in the following paragraph?
A.Women do not want to have babies.
B.How more health care services are available to women.
C.Medical problems are completely solved.
D.The World Health Organization.
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In recent years, the world has made progress in reducing deaths among children under the age of five. A new report says an estimated 6.9 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday. That compares to about twelve million in1990.
The report says child mortality rates have fallen in all areas. It says the number of deaths is down by at least 50 percent in eastern, western and southeastern Asia. The number also fell in North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ties Boerma is head of the WHO’s Department of Health Statistics and Informatics. He says most child deaths happen in just a few areas.
TIES BOERMA: “Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia face the greatest challenges in child survival. More than eighty percent of child deaths in the world occur in these two regions. About half of child deaths occur in just five countries—India, which actually takes twenty-four percent of the global total; Nigeria, eleven percent; the Democratic Republic of Congo, seven percent; Pakistan, five percent and China, four percent of under-five deaths in the world.”
Ties Boerma notes that, in developed countries, one child in one hundred fifty-two dies before his or her fifth birthday. But south of the Sahara Desert, one out of nine children dies before the age of five. In Asia, the mortality rate is one in sixteen.
The report lists the top five causes of death among children under five worldwide. They are pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and problems both before and during birth.
Tessa Wardlaw is with the U-N Children’s Fund. She is pleased with the progress being made in Sub-Saharan Africa. The area has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world. But she says the rate of decline in child deaths has more than doubled in Africa.
TESSA WARDLAW: “We welcome the widespread progress in child survival, but we importantly want to stress that there’s a lot of work that remains to be done. There’s unfinished business and the fact is that today on average, around nineteen thousand children are still dying every day from largely preventable causes.”
The World Health Organization says one way to solve these problems is to make sure health care services are available to women. In this way, medical problems can be avoided or treated when identified.
1.Since 1990, the number of the children who died before 5 in the world has dropped by about__________.
A.6,900,000 B.12,000,000 C.1,200,000 D.5,100,000
2. What does the underlined word “mortality” ( in Paragraph 2)mean?
A.illness B.reduction C.death D.problem
3.According to the passage, the readers are likely to believe that __________.
A.child mortality rates have fallen just in five areas
B.Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest under-five mortality rate in the world
C.in developed countries, no children die before the age of five
D.the world has made little progress in reducing the rates of child mortality
4.______ is the top-one cause of death among children under five worldwide.
A.Global warming B.Malaria C.Pneumonia D.Diarrhea
5.What will be probably referred to in the following paragraph?
A.Women do not want to have babies.
B.How more health care services are available to women.
C.Medical problems are completely solved.
D.The World Health Organization.
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Brazil has become one of the developing world’s great successes in reducing population growth—but more by accident than design.While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates,Brazil has had better result without really trying,says George Martine at Harvard.
Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2.99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1.93% a year between 1981 and 1990,and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average.Martine says this figure may have fallen still further since 1990,an achievement that makes it the envy of many other Third World countries.
Martine puts it down to,among other things,soap operas and installment(分期付款)plans introduced in the 1970s.Both played an important,although indirect,role in lowering the birth rate.Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of soap operas.Globo,Brazil’s most popular television network,shows three hours of soaps six nights a week,while three others show at least one hour a night.Most soaps are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities.
“Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction(生育),they describe middle and upper class values—not many children,different attitudes towards sex,women working,”says Martine.“They sent this message to all parts of Brazil and made people realise other patterns of family life and other values,which were put into a very attractive package.”
Meanwhile,the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers.“This led to change in consumption(消费)patterns and consumption did not get along well with unlimited reproduction,”says Martine.
1.The underlined phrase “puts it down to” is closest in meaning to “ ”.
A.considers the cause of it to be
B.finds it a reason for
C.looks it on as
D.compares it to
2.Soap operas have helped in lowering Brazil’s birth rate because .
A.they keep people sitting long hours watching TV
B.they have gradually changed people’s way of life
C.people are drawn to their attractive package
D.they make birth control measures popular
3.What is Martine’s conclusion about Brazil’s population growth?
A.The increase in birth rate will increase consumption.
B.The desire for consumption helps to reduce birth rate.
C.Consumption patterns and reproduction patterns are contradictory.
D.A country’s production is limited by its population growth.
4.Which is the best title of the passage?
A.Brazil:the developing world’s success
B.Soap operas and installment plans
C.Brazil:reducing birth rate by accident
D.Learn from Brazil,one of the Third World Countries
5.From the passage,we can conclude that .
A.India have reduced birth rates by accident,too
B.many other Third World countries are suffering a population growth rate now
C.Brazil government’s achieved a success reducing the birth rate purposely
D.Brazil has successfully reduced population growth—but more by accident than design
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