首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Tuning in round the clock, via satellite or internet blog, to any bout of mayhem anywhere, you might not think the world was bec
Tuning in round the clock, via satellite or internet blog, to any bout of mayhem anywhere, you might not think the world was bec
admin
2011-04-12
48
问题
Tuning in round the clock, via satellite or internet blog, to any bout of mayhem anywhere, you might not think the world was becoming a more peaceable place. But in some ways it is, and measurably so. A recent Human Security Report released by the Liu Institute at the University of British Columbia registers a 40% drop in the number of armed conflicts between 1992 and 2003, with the worst wars, those claiming more than a thousand lives in battle, down by 80%. While 28 armed struggles for self-determination ignited or reignited between 1991 and 2004, an encouraging 43 others were contained or doused.
Yet measured in a different way, from the point of view of the half of the world’s population that is female, argues the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the world is an awfully violent place, and not just in its war zones. Men still fill most of the body bags in wartime, including in civil wars, even on DCAF’s figures, but their sisters, mothers, wives and daughters, it argues in a new report entitled "Women in an Insecure World", face nothing short of a "hidden gendercide".
Violence against women is nothing new. DCAF’s contribution is to collate the many figures and estimates—not all of them easily verifiable, it has to be said—on everything from infanticide to rape (in both war and peace), dowry deaths, sex trafficking and domestic violence (in richer countries as well as poorer ones).
According to one UN estimate cited by DCAF, between 113m and 200m women are now demographically "missing". This gender gap is a result of the aborting of girl foetuses and infanticide in countries where boys are preferred; lack of food and medical attention that goes instead to brothers, fathers, husbands and sons; so-called "honour killings" and dowry deaths; and other sorts of domestic violence. It implies that each year between 1.5m and 3m women and girls are lost to gender-based violence. In other words, every two to four years the world looks away from a victim count on the scale of Hitler’s Holocaust.
Women between the ages of 15 and 44 are more likely to be maimed or die from violence inflicted one way or another by their menfolk than through cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war combined. Poor health care means that 600,000 women are lost each year to childbirth (a toll roughly equal annually to that of the Rwandan genocide). The World Health Organisation estimates that 6,000 girls a day (more than 2m a year), mostly in the poor world, undergo genital mutilation. Other WHO figures suggest that, around the world, one woman in five is likely to be a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.
The word "contained" in the last sentence of the first paragraph most probably means______.
选项
A、involved
B、checked
C、embraced
D、included
答案
B
解析
这是一道词汇题,测试考生对原文中词语的准确识别与理解。“contained”一词在原文首段尾句的含义是“控制、抑制”,故本题的正确选项应该是B“checked”(控制、抑制)。考生在阅读时应注意熟词僻意这一常考题型。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/Bm0RFFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
TherearethosewhoconsideritquestionablethattheseAdefence-linkedprojectswillBaccountforanimprovementinthestandar
WirelesstechnologyisintroducedasBymentioningInternet,theauthormeansthat
SupposeyouarePresidentofStudentUnionandaregoingtorecruitsomevolunteerstoparticipateinHopeProjectinthenexts
Inthefirstparagraph,theinternetofPradaismentionedtoWhatistheauthor’sattitudetowardthesalesoninternet?
Inthefirstparagraph,theinternetofPradaismentionedtoWhydoesPradaignorethesalesonWeb.?
UnitedStatesSenatorJohnGlennreturnedtoorbitaboardthespaceshuttleDiscoveryinlateOctober,1998,36yearsafterhis
UnitedStatesSenatorJohnGlennreturnedtoorbitaboardthespaceshuttleDiscoveryinlateOctober,1998,36yearsafterhis
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterprise,market-orientedeconomyinwhichconsumerslarg
TheAmericaneconomicsystemisorganizedaroundabasicallyprivate-enterprise,market-orientedeconomyinwhichconsumerslarg
随机试题
多毛细胞白血病的病理细胞经细胞化学染色呈明显阳性的是
患者于某,男性,50岁。素有咳喘宿痰,属多湿多痰体质,于恼怒后突然昏厥,喉有痰声,呼吸气粗,舌苔白腻,脉沉滑。其治法是
病程中突然出现呼吸困难,闻及两肺满布湿啰音,应考虑()。
化湿开窍、宁心安神药是祛痰开窍、安神药是
下列关于刑事诉讼中控审分离原则说法不正确的是()
甲国某咨询公司派人来华与境内外商投资企业X公司共同为某国有企业提供咨询业务,国内客户支付咨询费用200万元,根据工作量的分配,境外咨询公司和X公司按照4∶6的比例分配收入,税务机关在核定境外公司的境内业务收入时,最低不得少于()万元。
若某笔贷款的名义利率为8%,同期通货膨胀率为2%,则该笔贷款的实际利率为()。
班主任要努力成为学生的人生导师,是新时代对班主任提出的要求。()
十八大的报告中论述:全面实施素质教育,深化教育领域综合改革,完善终身教育体系,建设学习型社会。加强教师队伍建设,提高师德水平和业务能力,增强教师教书育人的荣誉感。《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要(2010—2020年)》提出的双基是什么?()
You(will)feelinconvenientinJapan(if)youcan(either)(speak)JapanesenorEnglish.
最新回复
(
0
)