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Take Steps to Protects Children Preventing childhood injuries would seem a tough task. But there’s a long list of proven way

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问题                         Take Steps to Protects Children
    Preventing childhood injuries would seem a tough task. But there’s a long list of proven ways to make the world safer for children. The World Health Organization wants its 193 member nations—and especially those in the developing world, where most deaths from injury occur—to know that accidents don’t have to happen.
    Many prevention strategies used by rich societies are only now being adopted in the developing world. They include strict drunken-driving laws; requirements that wells be covered and swimming pools fenced off; installing window guards in upper-story apartments; having standards for child-resistant lighters; requiring child-resistant packaging of drugs, stove fuel and poisons; and establishing poison-control centers and burn units.
    Traffic injuries are perhaps the most dramatic example of how much could be gained if strategies that have been shown to prevent injury were put in place more broadly. Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death worldwide for 15-to- 19-year-olds and the second-leading cause for children 5 to 14. But the use of seat belts, child seats and helmets, and the institution of "graduated licensing" of new drivers are essentially unknown in many countries.
    For society, the payoff of prevention efforts is huge. For every $ 1 invested in bike helmets and child seats, for example, $29 is saved in health care, disability and lost income costs. But for individuals, prevention is often economically burdensome. According to the WHO report, a factory laborer in a low-income country must work 11 times as long as his counterpart in a high-income country to buy a bicycle helmet. For a child soar, it’s 16 times as long.
    At the same time, some countries have risks not widely shared by others. Death rates from bums are 11 times as high in developing countries as in industrialized ones. European and American boys and girls have virtually equal rates of death from fire. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, however, girls’ mortality is three times that of boys because girls assist in family cooking at an early age; and the heat source is often an open flame on the ground; and female clothes are long and flowing.
    Prevention in those societies may need to include changes as simple—and as difficult—as getting the stove up to waist height.
What can we learn from Para. 1 ?
选项 A、It is impossible to prevent children from being injured.
B、A number of methods need to be proved to protect children.
C、More children died from injuries in developing countries.
D、Nobody knows that accidents don’t have to happen.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。由题干定位到第一段可知，保护儿童不受伤害是一项艰巨的任务。但是已经有许多经证明行之有效的方法可以采用。世界卫生组织希望自己的成员国保护好儿童，大多数的儿童意外死亡事件发生在发展中国家。故[C]“发展中国家儿童意外死亡事件较多”符合文章意思。[A]“预防儿童受伤是不可能的”与文章意思不符，故排除；[B]“许多方法需要进行验证，是否能保护儿童”，文中并未提到这一点，故排除；[D]“没有人了解意外事件是可以避免的”与文章意思不符，故排除。
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