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"My expectations and my happiness all got destroyed, that was the minute that it happened." So testified Sony Sulekha, one of th

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问题    "My expectations and my happiness all got destroyed, that was the minute that it happened." So testified Sony Sulekha, one of the plaintiffs in the largest human-trafficking case ever brought in America He and around 500 other Indians had been recruited to work in the Signal International shipyard in Mississippi. Each had paid at least $10,000 to a local recruiter working for Signal, expecting a well-paid job and help in getting a green card. Instead they laboured in inhumane conditions, lived in a crowded camp under armed guard and were given highly restricted work permits.
   Bonded labour is also common in parts of Pakistan, Russia and Uzbekistan—and prevalent in Thailand’s seafood industry. A recent investigation by Verite, an NGO, found that a quarter of all workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry were in forced labour.
   But the focus is now widening to the greater number of people in other forms of bonded labour— and the proposed solutions are changing. 【F1】Campaign groups and light-touch laws, backed up by the occasional high-profile prosecution, aim to shame multinationals into policing their own supply chains.
   【F2】The Global Fund to End Slavery, which is reported to have substantial seed money from Andrew Forrest an Australian mining magnate, will seek grants from donor governments and part-fund national strategies developed by public-private partnerships in countries in which bonded labour is common. The Freedom Fund finances research into ways to reduce bonded labour.
   【F3】The Freedom Fund’s first schemes include assessments of efforts to free bonded labour in the Thai seafood industry, the clothing industry in southern India and—a harder problem, since the customers are rarely multinationals—in brick caves in two Indian states. Arguably, the lack of evidence about what works is the main obstacle to reducing the prevalence of modern slavery.
   【F4】America made human trafficking illegal in 2000, after which it started to publish annual assessments of other countries’ efforts to tackle it. But it has only slowly turned up the heat on offenders within its borders.
   Australia and Britain have recently passed light-touch laws along the lines of a law requiring transparency in supply chains that was adopted by California in 2010. 【F5】This requires manufacturers and retailers that do business in the state and have global revenues of at least $100m to list the efforts they are taking to remove modern slavery and human trafficking from their supply chains.
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答案美国在2000年规定人口贩卖属违法行为，此后开始逐年评估其他国家对此所做的努力，并将其公之于众。
解析 ①本句是主从复合句，主句是“make sth．+a.”的结构，意为“使某物如何”，形容词作宾语补足语，进一步补充说明宾语。②after which引导的非限定性定语从句修饰前面所述的年份2000年，说明2000年后的情况。③从句的主语it指代主句的主语America,谓语是start to do sth．结构，意为“开始做某事”，文中是指美国开始发布评估信息。④句末的介词短语of other countries’efforts和不定式短语to tackle it都是作后置定语，前者修饰annual assessments，后者修饰other countries’efforts，指“发布其他国家对此所做努力的评估信息”。⑤句末的代词it指代的是前文提到的human trafficking，即“贩卖人口”这一问题。
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