索马里人道救援面临困境一托福阅读机经背景.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料索马里人道救援面临困境一托福阅读机经背景 The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food supplies. But the countryside is still a war zone controlled by an al-Qaida linked extremist group that restricts humanitarian access, and has killed aid workers. 对于人道救援机构来说，索马里南部遭遇的饥荒是一个很大的挑战。问题不是缺乏紧急救援食品和物资，而是如何把这些食品和物资送到急需救援的大人 和孩子的手上。一个和基地恐怖组织有关联的极端主义团伙目前仍然控制着索马里郊外;这个团伙对救援机构的行动，施加了很多的限制，一些救援人员甚至遭到了 杀害。在这种形势下，就出现了救援物资到不了目的地的情况;以至于在救援物资囤积不远处、几公里以外，处在饥荒之中的儿童成百上千地死去的状况。 The roads into Mogadishu are dotted with families streaming in from parched southern Somalia in hopes of saving their wafer-thin children from starvation. But even in the capital, the prospect of survival is little better. 在去往索马里首都摩加迪沙的路上，到处可见来自南部旱灾灾区的大人和孩子。这些人拖家带口，到摩加迪沙，无非是希望让骨瘦如柴的孩子不至于饿死。不过，即便是到了摩加迪沙，存活的机率也不见得高到哪儿去。 Twenty-six-year-old Hamsa Ali and her six children were part of a small community that packed their belongings and walked 20 days to get to Mogadishu. Fifteen died along the way, and now children weakened by malnutrition are dying of measles. 26岁的海姆莎·阿里带着六个孩子，跟随其他人一道，卷了铺盖卷，走了20天的路，终于到了索马里首都摩加迪沙。路上，他们一行人当中，就死掉了15个;如今，到了摩加迪沙之后，营养不良的孩子，又有不少，正在被麻疹等疾病夺去生命。 She said her three-year old boy became swollen, contracted measles and died a few days ago. 海姆莎·阿里说，她的三岁的儿子得了麻疹几天前就这么死去的。 Her group has taken refuge in the remains of an Italian-colonial-era church, but it offers little protection from the elements, and the crowded conditions invite disease. Officials say hastily-erected tent communities like this one are at the breaking point. New camps spring up every day. Some stocks of emergency food have arrived at a U.N. World Food Program warehouse in Mogadishu. More is on the way, and much more is needed, but the vexing question is how to get the food to people before they starve. 联合国下属的世界粮食项目在摩加迪沙设有一个专门存放紧急救援物资的仓库;一些救援食品刚刚被送到这里，而且更多的救援食品也已经在路上了。不过，救援人员目前面临的一大问题