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初中英语Lesson 24 Blindness/ World Sight day asf听力文件无病毒，请放心打开 听力理解 Key words: 1. World Sight Day 世界爱眼日 2. vision 视力 3. World Health Organization 世界卫生组织 4. release 准予发表，释放 5. infectious 传染性的 6. cataract 白内障 7. trachoma 沙眼 8. antibiotic 抗生素，抗菌素，链霉素 9. fly 蝇 10. assembly 会议，集会 Exercises: I. Complete the statements with the information you have heard from the report. 1. They say the number of blind people could almost double __________. 2. Yet the World Health Organization says that in eight out of ten cases, __________. 3. In most of Africa and Asia, cataracts __________ that can be cured. 4. The disease known as river blindness is __________. Flies spread the infection. 5. Officials __________ loses about twenty-eight-thousand-million dollars each year from curable blindness. II. Answer the questions according to what you have heard from the report. 1. Which day is the World Sight Day? 2. What is the goal of the Vision 2020 campaign? 3. How many cases of blindness does trachoma cause? 4. What is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children? 5. What does the resolution passed by the World Health Assembly in May urge the government to do? Blindness/ World Sight Day This is Phyis Roberts with the VOA Special English Development Report. An estimated 135,000,000 people have low vision. Forty to forty-five million others cannot see at all. Health experts warn that the number of blind people will increase sharply as the world population grows, and grows older. They say the number of blind people could almost double by 2020. Yet the World Health Organization says that in eight out of ten cases, blindness can be cured or avoided. October ninth was World Sight Day. A campaign called Vision 2020 released materials to help governments and health workers develop national plans to prevent blindness. Vision 2020 is a joint effort of the WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. The goal is to end preventable bl