印度有效根除小儿麻痹症一托福阅读机经背景摘要.docx

智课网TOEFL备考资料 印度有效根除小儿麻痹症一托福阅读机经背景   India recently celebrated a year of being polio-free. This is a remarkable achievement in a country that until recently was recognized as the world’s epicenter of polio. India’s momentous accomplishment is boosting prospects of polio becoming only the second disease after smallpox to have been eradicated. To ensure that it remains polio-free, India is holding a second round of National Immunization Days. Between February 19 and 25, vaccinators aim to immunize 172 million children against polio.  印度最近庆祝全国整整一年没有出现新的小儿麻痹症病例。对于印度这个直到最近还是全世界小儿麻痹症发病率最高的这么一个国家来说，这实在可以说 是一个相当大的成就。为了确保全国各地保持没有小儿麻痹症的出现，印度展开了第二轮全国免疫日活动。在2月19号到25号这期间，当地的免疫人员将为全国 各地一亿七千两百万儿童注射小儿麻痹症的疫苗。  Staff Benda Bilili, a group of eight former street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, are singing their signature song Polio. Four of the musicians are disabled polio victims. They sing about the disease that drastically changed their lives. They urge parents to immunize their children. They travel throughout Africa on a mission to kick polio out of the continent.  Sona Bari is external relations officer for the World Health Organization’s Global Polio Eradication Initiative. She said, A year has passed in which no child in India has been paralyzed by polio for the first time in history.  素纳·伯瑞是世界卫生组织负责在全球范围内彻底消除小儿麻痹症的项目官员之一。她说：“在印度，过去一年来，没有一个孩子因为小儿麻痹症而瘫痪，这可以说是史无前例的。”  She says India has always been considered the toughest place on earth to stop the virus. But she notes it has achieved this milestone through political will, huge funding by Rotary International, and determination and persistence by the whole society.  她说，印度一向被认为是全世界范围内最不容易消除小儿麻痹症的一个国家。这位专家指出，印度之所以做到了根除小儿麻痹症，很大程度上是因为印度政府下定决心要将这一疾病彻底根除，而且来自国际社会的基金也起到了相当的作用，再加上印度全社会上下都展示了决心和恒心。  India and Indians had to be committed for a decade to month after month of vaccination activities, said Bari. House to house to vaccinate children, keeping surveillance for p