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Multivitamins Urged for All Pregnant Women
A recent study in Tanzania found that when pregnant women took vitamins every day, fewer babies were born too small. Babies that weigh less than two and one-half kilograms at birth have a greater risk of dying. Those that survive are more likely to experience problems with their development. And experts say that as adults they have a higher risk of diseases including heart disease and diabetes. The World Health Organization estimates that every year twenty million babies are born with low birth weight. Nine out of ten of them are born in developing countries.
The new study took place in Dar es Salaam. 4,200 pregnant women received multivitamins. The pills contained all of the vitamins in the B group along with vitamins C and E. They also contained several times more iron and folate than the levels advised for women in developed nations. Pregnant women especially in poor countries may find it
A. 20,000,000.
B. 18,000,000.
C. 2,000,000.
D. 38,000,000.
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More Efforts Urged to Empower Women at AIDS Conference
Prevention is a central issue being discussed at the sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada. Twenty-four thousand delegates are at the conference which ends Friday.
Bill and Melinda Gates called for faster research to develop preventions like microbicides for women to use when they have sex.
(1) Melinda Gates said the way to "change this epidemic" is to put power in the hands of women. In southern Africa, for example, about sixty percent of adults living with HIV are women. Bill Gates said women today often have no choice but to depend on men not to infect them. "A woman should never need her partner’s permission to save her own life, " he said as the conference opened Sunday.
(2) On Monday, former President Bill Clinton said more people would get tested for HIV if an aggressive effort took place to fight the stigma. But reduci
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Men and women who do all the office work are called white-collar workers. Secretaries and receptionists, typists, bank tellers and computer operators work for many different kinds of companies. There are big banks that do business all over the world and small banks that serve a single neighborhood or a small town. The big insurance and industrial companies employ thousands of people who work in tall office buildings, while around the comer an employment agency or a manufacturer’s representative may have a staff of only half a dozen clerks.
Many office workers dream of working their way up to the top from clerk to president of the corporation. This way lies through middle management positions. Middle management includes junior executive, who fill specialized jobs, recommend action to top management, or see that the company’s policies are being carried out. At the very top are the senior executives. They establish policies for their companies
[单项选择]Women all over the world are_________ equal pay for equal jobs.
A. calling on
B. calling about
C. calling off
D. calling for
[单项选择] Global Warming and Technological changes
Recent studies have identified four major global environmental risks: acid rain, ozone depletion, deforestation and the greenhouse effect. On the whole, thanks to technological changes, people now tend to move toward warmer regions in North America and Europe. Climate warming will probably be a boon to Alaska, which is America’’s least productive state in Gross National Product(GNP)per square mile.
Studies of the impact of global warming on the United States and other developed regions find that the most vulnerable areas are those dependent on unmanaged ecosystems—on naturally occurring rainfall, run-off and temperatures, and the extremes of these variables. Agriculture, forestry and coastal activities fall into this category.
Most economic activity in industrialized countries, however, depends very little on the climate. Intensive-care units of hospitals, communications, heavy manufacturing and microelectronics
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
