China Seeks Donors to Narrow Bone Marrow Gap

     1.Chinahas launched a campaign to recruit more bone marrow donors, amid a shortage of funds as well as of sibling donors who could help the growing number of patients in need of life-saving transplants, state media reported on Monday.

     2.The Chinese Red Cross¹began the national campaign over the weekend to find donors for some 4 million patients suffering from leukaemia, thalassaemia and other blood diseases and awaiting bone marrow transplants, the official China Daily said. Every yearChinahas 40,000 new leukaemia patients, most of them under 35 and 50 percent of them children,² the newspaper said. Other reports have linkedChina’s growing childhood leukaemia to solvents and building materials used in interior decoration³.

    3.With a tiny pool of bone marrow donors, weakened by the absence of sibling donors for most children because ofChina’s one-child policy,doctors rely on⁴donors fromTaiwanto save many young leukaemia patients, the Beijing Evening Newssaid last weekend.Taiwan, with a population of 22 million, has 210,000 registered donors compared with fewer than 30,000 donors among mainlandChina’s 1.3 billion people⁵, the newspaper said.

    4.Yet the lack of registered donors may reflect a lack of funding for testing and recording data on potential donors rather than a lack of volunteers, the newspaper said.Chinaneeds a pool of at least 100,000 donors but testing them would cost more than 50 million yuan, it said.

    5.The Hong Kong Marrow Match Foundation⁶ said it has helped "a handful" of patients inBeijing,Shanghaiand other cities. "The number of requests is increasing" from mainlandChina, including direct calls to the charity from desperate patients or relatives, said the foundation’s donor coordinator Marven Chin. But the cost of extracting bone marrow from one of the foundation’s 40,000 registered donors and flying it by courier has to be borneby the patients, and many of them have to be aided financially, Chin said.

词汇：

marrow /"mærəʊ/ n.髓,骨髓

pool /puːl/ n.储备库

amid /ə"mɪd/ prep.在……中,在……当中

charity /"tʃærɪtɪ/ n.慈善团体

sibling /"sɪblɪŋ/ n.兄弟（或姐妹），同胞

desperate /"desp(ə)rət/ adj.绝望的

transplant /træns"plɑːnt/ n.移植物

coordinator /kəʊ"ɔ:dɪneɪtə/ n.协调人

leuk(a)emia/luː"kiːmɪə/ n.白血病

extract /ɪk"strækt/ vt.抽出

thalass(a)emia /,θæləsei"i:miə/ n.珠蛋白生成障碍性贫血,地中海贫血

courier /"kʊrɪə/ n.送急件的人,信使

recipient /rɪ"sɪpɪənt/ n.接受者

solvent /"sɒlv(ə)nt/ n.溶剂,溶媒

注释：

1. the Chinese Red Cross:中国红十字会

2. ...most of them...children...：其中大多数为35岁以下,50%为儿童……这是两个分词独立结构作状语,省去两个分词being。完整的说法应该是most of them being under 35 and 50 per cent of them being children。

3.interior decoration：(室）内装修

4.rely on/upon:依靠,依赖

5....compared with...1.3 billion people...:如果与中国内地13亿人口中只有不足3万名志愿者比较起来……(as)compared with:与……比较起来fewer than 30,000 donors:不足3万名志愿者

6.the Hong Kong Marrow Match Foundation:香港骨髓匹配基金会

B to be responsible for childhood leukaemia

C an urgent and tough task to be accomplished

D less than one third of the minimunl

E an expensive cost to be paid

Some solvents and building materials are considered __________.

A:A B:B C:C D:D E:E F:F

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Inventor Studio的环境可以根据设计过程中的需要在装配、（）与Inventor Studio环境之间切换。

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下列不属于Visual Studio 2008的新功能的是

A:HTML/CSS编辑器 B:AJAX和JavaScript支持 C:ADO的支持 D:Silverlight和XAML

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A:HTML/CSS编辑器 B:AJAX和JavaScript支持 C:ADO的支持 D:Silverlight和XAMI

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A:stay away from B:stay off C:to stay away from D:staying

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