1. 在我们国家里，超声波成了一件大规模杀伤性武器。

In our country ultrasound is becoming __1__ ___2____ __3__ ___4___ ____5____.

a weapon of mass destruction

 

2. 在印度，使用超声波辨别胎儿的性别是非法行为。

Using _____6______ tests to determinea ___7____'s gender is illegal in India.

ultrasound   fetus

ultrasound n.Ultrasonic sound. 超声波

fetus n. 胎儿

 

3. 据我们所知，这项法令遭到了蔑视。

What's known is that act is being ____8______

flouted

flout :to deliberately disobey a law, rule etc, without trying to hide what you are doing: 轻视 , 嘲笑 , 愚弄

Some companies flout the rules and employ children as young as seven.

 

4. 你去做一个超声波检查，然后就能得到粉色或者蓝色糖果

You __9__ __10__ ___11____an ultrasound and you're handed a pink candy or a blue candy.

go in for

go in for something: 1 to do an examination or take part in a competition: 参加 , 追求 , 从事 , 赞成

I go in for all the competitions.

 

5. 而那些不能负担昂贵超声波测试的父母可能会自己处理怀上女孩的问题

Parents who cannot afford expensive tests may ___12___ ____13____ __14___ ____15____ ___16__ __17___.

take matters into their own hands

take matters into your own hands

to deal with a problem yourself because the people who should have dealt with it have failed to do so.

  The police haven't done anything about the vandalism, so local residents have taken matters into their own hands.

 

6. 据报道，在一些偏远地区，女婴在出生之后会被立即杀掉 —— 或被扼死、闷死，或被活埋。

In some rural areas girl babies have been reported to be killed immediately after birth -____18______, ____19______ or buried alive.

strangled  suffocated

strangle v. 扼死

suffocate vt. 使窒息 , 噎住 , 闷熄 vi. 被闷死 , 窒息 , 受阻

 

7. 供职于联合国儿童基金会的 CW 说基金会和其他组织希望能够借鉴他们的成功案例，即通过对村民进行营养不良知识的教育来改变他们对于女孩的态度。

Corrine Woods at UNICEF says her organization and others hope to ___20______ the success they have had with educating villagers about _____21______ to get them to change their attitudes about girls.

replicate   malnutrition

replicate: if you replicate someone's work, a scientific study etc, you do it again, or try to get the same result again:

There is a need for further research to replicate these findings.

 

 

8. 社会学家们正在警醒世人重男轻女现象可能带来的长远后果。

 Social scientists are ____22____ __23__ __24___ about the long-term _____25_______.

ringing the alarm   ramifications

ramification: A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement:

结果：对有时复杂的问题、计划或陈述的发展或由其所造成的后果：

the ramifications of a court decision.

 

 

9. 比尔 • 盖茨对美国移民系统表示担忧，他说对高技术移民数量上的限制，以及官方在程序上的滞后和 911 恐怖袭击之后繁琐的安全检查都妨碍外国人才在美国找工作。

Bill Gates expressed concern about the U. S. immigration system, saying limits on the number of visas for high-skilled workers, ____26_____ delays in processing them and exhaustive security checks following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are ___27_____ talented foreign workers from seeking jobs in the United States.

bureaucratic   deterring

bureaucratic adj. 官僚政治的

deter :v.tr. （及物动词）

To prevent or discourage from acting, as by means of fear or doubt:

威吓：通过恐吓或怀疑的手段阻止或使不敢：

“Does negotiated disarmament deter war?”

 

10. 人们期望国会考虑移民法改革，并努力吸引更多高技术人才，在后面几周里把签证申请周期流水化、高效化。

Congress is expected to consider immigration reform legislation, including efforts to attract more high-skilled workers and ___28___ the visa application process in the coming weeks.

streamline

streamline :To improve the appearance or efficiency of; modernize.

使现代化：改善 … 的表面或效率；使现代化

 

The girls of India are disappearing. On average there are only about 930 girls for every 1, 000 boys. Boys tend to be preferred because they carry on the family name. But families here also fear the financial burden of girls - when it comes time to pay huge traditional dowries to their daughters' future husbands upon marriage.

Sabu George, an academic and activist, says modern medicine makes it possible for Indian couples to now know the sex of their child before it is born. "

In our country ultrasound is becoming a weapon of mass destruction. Instead of saving lives, what we are finding is that millions and millions of girls are being eliminated before birth. "

Using ultrasound tests to determine a fetus's gender is illegal in India. But Corrine Woods of the U. N. Children's Fund says that has hardly stopped the practice. "What's known is that act is being flouted. You go in for an ultrasound and you're handed a pink candy or a blue candy. "

 

Woods says the pink candy is frequently the signal to request an abortion - especially among India's middle and upper classes, where activist Sabu George sees even more discrimination against women than among the lowest classes.

"Improved socio-economic status of women seems to be becoming very, very anti-girl. In part because the most educated families have the least number of children and the smallest number of children are obtained by eliminating girls. "

Researchers say one out of every 25 female fetuses in India is aborted - an estimated half million a year. Parents who cannot afford expensive tests may take matters into their own hands. In some rural areas girl babies have been reported to be killed immediately after birth -strangled, suffocated or buried alive.

And, often, girls who survive infancy die quite young activists say because they are given less food and medical care than their brothers. Those who do survive will generally get less of an education - in both quality and quantity - than the boys in the family.

 

 

Corrine Woods at UNICEF says her organization and others hope to replicate the success they have had with educating villagers about malnutrition to get them to change their attitudes about girls. "Creating a culture at the village level of the value of girls is key. And also creating a culture whereby the women's group in the village is saying 'don't do this. ' So it's peer pressure. "

In the central Indian city of Bhopal a gynecologist and janitor at a hospital were arrested recently following the discovery in a pit behind the medical facility of the remains of an estimated 400 female fetuses and newborn babies.

India 's government is proposing to set up orphanages to raise unwanted girls, hoping that will cut down on the number of abortions and infanticides. But some experts express little hope, saying the idea has been tried before and in many of the orphanages the girls suffered terrible neglect. Social scientists are ringing the alarm about the long-term ramifications. They say history has shown societies with a surplus of young men who have no hope of marriage suffer from instability and surges in crime and violence.

 

 

Bill Gates expressed concern about the U. S. immigration system, saying limits on the number of visas for high-skilled workers, bureaucratic delays in processing them and exhaustive security checks following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are deterring talented foreign workers from seeking jobs in the United States.

In testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Gates warned that the United States could risk losing its competitive edge to other countries if Congress does not reform the immigration system.

"Countries like Canada and Australia have been beneficiaries of our system, discouraging these people with both the limits and the long waits, and what the process feels like as they go through the security checks. "

Congress is expected to consider immigration reform legislation, including efforts to attract more high-skilled workers and streamline the visa application process in the coming weeks. Gates said he believes it is possible to do background security checks without having the process become too burdensome. He also called for ways to make it easier for more high-skilled workers to become permanent residents to help retain talent, particularly in the information technology, or IT, field.