题目内容
UNICEF reports that 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse(虐待) and neglect. The USA National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse finds 3 million new reports of child abuse or neglect every year.
According to such information on human rights abuses of children, the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth. In answer to the common human rights abuses of young people, Dr. Mary Shuttleworth of Youth for Human Rights International(YHRI) recently completed her seventh annual World Tour to five continents in eighty days. The purpose of the tour is to promote the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights to tens of thousands of children and officials.
According to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are illegally traded all over the world every year.
Sold as goods, these children are forced into inhuman labor, denied basic education and robbed of their childhoods. Youth who do not know their rights are easily cheated by ill-intentioned men. That is why YHRI thinks highly of education.
“When the United Nations declared 2010 as the International Year of Youth, I knew that their human rights had to be greater than ever,” Dr. Shuttleworth said. The tour reached Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Japan, Hawaii and Los Angeles.
The YHRI World Tour 2010 has reached tens of thousands of students as well as officials, educators, and religious leaders and thus promotes human rights education to millions more.
1.2010 was declared as the International Year of Youth because ______.
A. 3 million children reported their information to the UN
B. many children are suffering from ill-treatment and neglect
C. children are illegally traded throughout the whole world
D. human rights abuses of young people have been avoided
2.According to para. 2, Dr. Shuttleworth first started her annual World Tour in _____.
A. 2000 B. 2004 C. 2008 D. 2010
3.Youth for Human Rights International is paying attention to education because _______.
A. education should serve most children
B. too many children are forced to leave school
C. children who know their rights will make more money
D. children who know little about their rights are easily cheated
4.According to the passage, the YHRI World Tour 2010 _______.
A. has almost stopped the child abuse B. has reached different areas and people
C. has found more forced child labor D. was neglected by some political leaders
1.B
2.B
3.D
4.B
【解析】略
UNICEF is appealing for more than one billion dollars in aid for women and children around the world. The United Nations Children's Fund has released its “Humanitarian Action Report” for two thousand ten. The report lists twenty – eight countries and territories with some of the world’s most pester affecting women and children.
Haiti was considered to be in crisis long before the earthquake in January. The deputy executive director of UNICEF, Hilde Johnson, says the quake has only made the need for aid more immediate. But she says children all over the world have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else.
The "Humanitarian Action Report" discusses several issues that UNICEF says increasingly threaten the basic rights of women and children. It says climate change has caused droughts and food insecurity in many areas. High food prices and the global financial crisis of two thousand eight-two thousand nine have only added to poverty and malnutrition (营养不良). And armed conflict continues to threaten the lives of millions.
Hilde Johnson says children are always the most affected by conflicts and disasters. They face an increased risk of abuse, including sexual violence and other serious rights violations(侵犯).
UNICEF deals with about two hundred emergencies around the world every year. The greatest need last year was in sub-Saharan Africa. The report says drought, food insecurity and civil unrest affected about twenty-four million people.
Violence and displacements of people were especially bad in Sudan, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
In Asia, UNICEF expects its financial assistance needs to more than double this year. This is partly the result of adding Pakistan and the Philippines to the latest report. In Pakistan, it says, more than two million people have been forced from their homes by the conflict in the Swat Valley and other areas of the northwest. And in the Philippines, more than two hundred thousand people are still living in shelters after severe storms last year.
This year's UNICEF report talks about the value of public and private partnerships in helping children and families in emergencies.
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms. For a link to the UNICEF report listing the twenty-eight countries and territories in crisis, go to www.unsv.com. I'm Steve Ember.
1.According to Hilde Johnson, the most easily affected peens suffering from conflicts and disasters are .
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A．women |
B．children |
C．the old |
D．the disabled |
2.From this passage we know that the most serious problems in Asia are .
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A．earthquakes and malnutrition |
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B．displacemerds, and storms |
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C．seminal violence and other rights violations |
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D．droughts and food insecurity |
3.By saying “… the quake has only made the need for aid more immediate.” Hilda Johnson probably intends to energy the idea that “ ”.
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A．everything must have a beginning |
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B．grass never grows where the wide blows |
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C．cloudy herrings turn to clear evenings |
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D．it never rains but pours |
4.Which of the following might serve as a suitable tickle for this passage?
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A．Haiti was in crisis due to the earthquake in January. |
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B．Violence in the twenty – eight countries and territories |
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C．UNICEF Appeals for And for Women and Children |
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D．the vatic of public and private partnerships in helping |