托福阅读机经背景：加州加紧打击人口贩卖活动.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读机经背景：加州加紧打击人口贩卖活动   A recent U.S. State Department report says 27 million people worldwide are subject to forced labor and sexual slavery. A major effort is under way in California to fight the problem.  人口贩卖是当今国际社会的一个严重问题。美国国务院报告显示，全球有两千七百万人口由于人口贩卖而成了强制劳工或性奴隶。美国加利福尼亚州与墨西哥交界，深受人口贩卖活动的影响。加州最近采取新的行动打击人口贩卖活动。  Virginia Isaias was forced to marry at 15 in her native Mexico, and later kidnapped with her six-year-old daughter and forced into prostitution. Her story is told in a documentary now being produced, called Sands of Silence.  维吉尼亚?伊萨亚斯15岁时在家乡墨西哥被迫结婚。之后不久，她 和她6岁的女儿被绑架，被迫进入了色情服务行业。纪录片“沉默的沙漠”讲述了她的故事。  Isaias herself is now an anti-trafficking activist who talks about the cost of human trafficking to groups such as this one, in Santa Ana, California.  伊萨亚斯现在积极参与反人口贩卖活动。她向一些组织介绍人口贩卖的代价。  They take your baby and give it to another woman and they give another womans baby to you. So a mother is less likely to flee. They also threaten you and have people watching over you, said Isaias.  她在加州圣安娜的演讲中说：“他们抢走你的孩子，把孩子交给另外一个母亲，然后给你一个别人的孩子。这样一来，母亲们就不太可能逃跑了。他们同时也威胁你并且找人盯着你。”  IsaIas escaped and paid a ransom for her child. Her story is all too common, says filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle.  伊萨亚斯最终逃走了，并且为她的孩子交了赎金。电影制作人切罗?阿尔瓦-斯蒂荷说，像她这样的故事还有很多。  Because of globalization, or migration, that pushes people to move from one country to another and they become vulnerable to traffickers, said Alvarez-Stehle.  她说：“全球化和 移民 使人们从一个国家迁移到另外一个国家。这些移民很容易成为人贩子的目标。”  Alvarez-Stehle has also created an online game to educate young people on the problem.  阿尔瓦-斯蒂荷还制作了一个在线游戏，帮助年轻人增进对人口贩卖问题的了解。  United Nations figures show that victims of trafficking are mostly young, and 80 percent are subject to sexual exploitation. Twenty percent are subject to forced labor, and one in five victims is a child.  联合国的数据显示，人口贩卖的受害者大多是年轻人，其中有80%被迫从事色情服务，20%成为了强制劳工。在每5个被贩卖的人口中就有