Unit 3 UN Activities原文与答案

Unit 3 UN ActivitiesSection A1. Security Council. 2. special fund 3. permanent members 4. closed-door 5. Goodwill Ambassador 6. urgent meeting 7. General Assembly opened. 8. antipoverty.9. Human Rights Committee Red Cross 10. resolutions Section B1. (The) United Nations has released new data showing that rich countries have made little overall progress in reducing the output of the gases blamed for climate change.2. Qatar has become the first Arab country to pledge troops for a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, offering to send up to 300 troops to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.3. In a speech to the 191-member General Assembly, Mr. Annan urged an enlargement of the Security Council by adding six new members.4. World leaders speaking on the second day of the United Nations World Summit have called for reform of the international body and have urged it to play a key role in the fight against terrorism.5. The United Nations has launched its biggest annual appeal for humanitarian assistance, asking for 4.7 billion dollars to help the victims of war, famine and natural disasters around the world.Answer :1.C 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.BSection CItem 1 The United Nations childrens agency UNICEF is beginning a huge campaign in Pakistan today to immunize 800,000 children affected by the earthquake last month. The agency is sending 600 health teams into towns and mountain villages to vaccinate children against measles, polio, diphtheria and tetanus. UNICEF staff say it would be a race against time to reach children scattered in remote mountain communities before winter snows arrive. The agency has already vaccinated 300,000 children.Answer: Task 1: 2 4 7 Task 2:1. childrens agency 2. health teams mountain communities immunize/vaccinate winter snows 300000 3. race against timeItem 2 The United Nations relief agency says an attack on a displaced persons camp in Sudans western Darfur region has reportedly left 29 people dead and 10 seriously injured. A spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told VGA it s the first time that a displaced persons camp has been attacked in more than two years of civil war. The spokesman says up to 300 armed Arab men on horses and camels attacked the camp on Wednesday.Answer: Task1: 1. C 2. D Task2: 1. F 2. T 3. T. 4. T 5. FItem 3 The United Nations World Food Program has appealed urgently for donations of more than 150 million dollars to prevent a food crisis in southern Africa. It warned that almost 10 million people across six countriesZambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland urgently needed food aid. The shortages are blamed on drought and the effects of HIV/AIDS and chronic poverty. A BBC correspondent in southern Africa says that in Zimbabwe, children in rural areas have already started to show signs of malnutrition. She says some eat only once a day.Answer:1. Donations of more than $150 million 2.Prevention of a food crisis in southern Africa 3.Almost 10 million people 4.Drought,HIV/AIDS and chronic poverty 5.Signs of malnutritionSection DItem 1 The South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon has won the support of all five permanent members of the UN Security Council in his bid to become the next Secretary General of the UN. Mr. Ban had been the favorite to succeed Kofi Annan in the post, and had come first in three previous informal ballots held by members of the Security Council. However, until this latest vote it had not been known whether his candidacy might be vetoed by one of the five permanent members, the United States, China, Russia, France or Britain. Its expected that a formal vote will be held next week. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton said new candidates could come forward, but that was unlikely.Answer：（1）Secretary General (2)Foreign Minister (3)won the support (4)succeed (5)informal ballots (6)veto (7)candidacy (8)unlikeItem 2 Despite U.S. objections, the United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly voted to create a new human rights council to improve the UNs ability to deal with human rights offenders. The council replaces the discredited UN Human Rights Commission based in Geneva. U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the Assembly today that UN made some improvements but they are not enough. Bolton told the Assembly that rules for the new council are too weak to prevent human rights violators from obtaining seats. Under the resolution adopted today, the old commission will be abolished June 16th, and the new council will convene three days later.Answer：Task1: 1.C 2.C Task2: 1.F 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.T 6.TItem 3 The United Nations has welcomed new pledges by donor countries of nearly 600 million dollars to fund relief efforts after the South Asian earthquake. But the UNs chief relief coordinator Jan Egeland said it was not clear how much was for immediate emergency relief and how much for longer-term work. Pakistan says 79,000 people have died and Mr. Egeland had early warned that hundreds of thousands more could die without an immediate big boost in funds. Winter snow is expected in the earthquake zone within weeks. A top Pakistani relief official, General Farooq Ahmed, told the BBC that an extra 30,000 troops were in the area to help.Answer：1.Donor nations have made piedges of nearly 600millino dollars to fund relief efforts after the South Asian earthouake 2.Mr. Egeland is the UN chief relief coordinator. He said it was not clear how much was for immediate emergency relief and how much for longer-term work. 3. Pakistan says 79,000 people have died and Mr. Egeland had early warned that hundreds of thousands more could die without an immediate big boost in funds 4. Winter snow is expected in the earthquake zone within weeks. 5. An extra 30,000 troops were in the area to help.Section E1. Sri Lankan officials say government forces have killed at least 40 Tamil Tigers and wounded 70 during a rebel attack on strategic areas in the countrys northeast. Military officials say five government troops were also killed in the fighting early today around the port of Trincomalee. The rebels say they overran four military outposts, but authorities in Colombo say the rebels have made no territorial gains. Rebels also fired mortar shells into a civilian area in Muthur near Trincomalee, killing at least two civilians.Answer：A.(4)B(3)C(5)D (2)E(1) 2. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without electricity in western New York after a major snowstorm this week. It hit Thursday night and dropped as much as two feet of snow by th