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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)阅读理解分类模拟题93 Reading ComprehensionPart AText 1 An epidemicof poverty in Britain is having a dramatic impact on the survival rates and health chances of children from poor families, an influential coalition will warn this week in a major report that casts doubt on government efforts to close the inequality gap.  End Child Poverty, a network of childrens charities, church groups, unions and think-tanks, claims that the gap between rich and poor represents a huge injustice in British society and has become one of the major factors affecting child mortality rates.  Its report, based on a wide-ranging analysis of government data, finds that children from poor families are at 10 times the risk of sudden infant death as children from better-off homes. And it reveals how babies from disadvantaged families are more likely to be born underweight less than children from the richest families. Poorer children are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer chronic illness when toddlers and twice as likely to have cerebral palsy, according to the report, Health Consequences of Poverty for Children. Poverty is now one of the greatest dangers faced by our children, said Nick Spencer, one of the reports authors and professor of child health at the University of Warwick. If poverty were an infection, we would be in the midst of a full-scale epidemic.  The report is likely to revive the debate on child poverty and focus attention on Labors record when it comes to tackling social inequalities. In March 1999, the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, promised to eradicate child poverty within a generation. This was later defined as a commitment to end child poverty by 2020, with a target of halving the number of children living in poverty by 2010/11. But while the current row over social inequality has tended to focus on education and benefits, the implications for health have been largely ignored. Now, however, the End Child Poverty report highlight