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China is working hard to deal with the contaminated dairy products scandal（丑闻）, which has so far left four babies dead, a senior official with the World Health Organization(WHO) said on Sunday.

Dr. Shigeru Omi, director of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, told a press conference that China is taking the issue “seriously”.

“After acknowledging the problems, the Chinese government is very serious about the matter and I hope the situation will be brought under control as soon as possible,” Omi said.

“A number of investigations have been launched and several batches of products have been recalled in a bid to establish the magnitude of this ‘serious public health issue’,” he said.

“The WHO is assisting China in probing the scandal but will not conduct its own investigations,” he said.

“Globalization means the scandal that started in China is a problem for people around the world,” he said.

“Every country is vulnerable（脆弱的，易受影响的）, every country can be affected, so the international community should work together to solve the problem,” he said.

“The poison milk problem has shown that there are still challenges for both local governments and the private sector,” Omi said.

“There is large room for improvement on quality control, more investment is needed at the lower level, and serious commitment should come from the private sector,” he said.

Since the scandal over the contaminated dairy products broke out, 6,244 infants have fallen ill, 150 have been diagnosed with acute kidney failure, and four have died.

Investigations have shown the babies were made sick by the presence of melamine in milk formula.

Anthony Hazzard, a food safety pecialist at the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, said the decision by some countries to recall milk products imported from China was “reasonable”.

“I think many countries decided on the recall. I think under this kind of situation when the picture is not clear, it is a very reasonable position that countries take.”

1. In the opinion of Dr.Shigeru Omi, China _______.

A.      doesn’t admit the existence of polluted dairy products.

B.      takes the polluted dairy products for granted.

C.      will solve the problem of polluted dairy products quickly.

D.     has no way to deal with the poison milk products.

2. The role of the WHO in the Chinese milk problem is to _____.

A.      help China to investigate the poison milk problem.

B.      look into the problem all by itself.

C.      invest some money in helping the private sector.

D.     shoulder the responsibility of the poison milk problem.

3. The attitude of Anthony Hazzard toward the decision to recall the milk products is that of _____.

A. disappointment      B. unconcern      C. disagreement      D. approval

4. What might be the most suitable title for the passage?

   A. Chinese dairy products are exported to foreign countries.

   B. China faces a challenge from foreign countries in dairy products.

   C. Milk scare is taken very seriously in China.

   D. The poison milk products lead to the death of infants.

Answer 1

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