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科目:高中英语 来源:启东中学作业本高三英语(下) 题型:054
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Deaths and injuries from motor-vehicle accidents are increasing in developing countries around the world. Traffic accidents in the young nations of 1 have become a :social scourge (祸害)”, and all too often the victims (受害者) are young, educated Africans 2 increased earning power has enabled them to buy a motorcycle or an automobile. Reports 3 three Latin-American countries, Chile, Costa Rica and Venezuela, 4 that, as in the US, traffic accidents have become the leading cause of 5 among young adults.
About 250,000 people throughout the world are 6 in traffic accidents each year, and more than seven million are injured. 7 the US has the highest number of people killed in traffic accidents of 8 country (about 50,000 per year), it has one of the lowest rates of fatalities (死亡率) per motor vehicle or passenger mile, 9 , in the US there are six fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, 10 in Kenya and Uganda there are from 55 to 65 fatalities per 100 11 passenger miles. In India the fatality rate per motor vehicle is 10 to 15 times higher than it is in the US. In all countries the death rate from traffic accidents is higher for 12 than it is for females.
To 13 the growing epidemic (流行) of traffic 14 , the WHO has 15 a worldwide study of road traffic accidents and is encouraging the development of preventive programs. If traffic accidents are 16 by methods similar to those used 17 the great “killing diseases”, the organization states, the present epidemic of road 18 could be made to disappear 19 as plague (瘟疫) and smallpox have now been 20 almost everywhere in the world.
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科目:高中英语 来源:浙江省杭州学军中学2010-2011学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题 题型:054
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