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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.
Which of the following statements is true according to Para. 3?
选项 A、Prevention strategies have not been used as widely as they should be.
B、All the deadly injuries come from car accidents for the 15 years old.
C、Children aged from 5 to 14 are more likely to be injured by car.
D、A new driver has to buy a child seat to prevent children injuries.
答案A
解析 推理判断题。由题干定位到第三段可知，交通伤害的例子可以证明有效的预防策略推广得还不够。故[A]“预防策略没有得到应有的广泛使用”符合文意。对于15岁到19岁的孩子来说，交通伤害是最大的死亡威胁。[B]“所有受伤死亡的15岁的孩子都死于车祸”与文章意思不符，故排除；[C]“5岁到14岁的孩子最有可能被车撞伤”，根据本段第二句可知，车祸是5岁到14岁孩子面临的第二大杀手，最容易在车祸中受伤的是15岁到19岁的孩子，故排除；[D]“刚获得驾照的司机必须购买儿童座椅以防止儿童受伤”，文中并未提到这一点，故排除。
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