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have made the least progress towards reducing it. A woman in Africa has a one in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth, pared with one in 3,800 for a woman in the rich world. 1. The word “botched” (Line 5, Paragraph 1) most probably means_____. [A] awkward [B] wrong [C] backward [D] bungled fact that the abortion rate in Africa and Asia in 2020 is almost identical to that in Europe implies that_____. [A] the abortion rate has nothing to do with a country’s national wealth. [B] the abortion rate has nothing to do with a country’s restricting measures on abortion. [C] the abortion rate cannot be lowered through the legal measures. [D] the abortion rate cannot be lowered by the implement of tightened abortion laws. 3. The conclusion of the study can be proved by the following proofs offered in the passage except that _____. [A] the abortion rate in countries with strict aboriton laws is higher than that of the counties with liberal laws. [B] there are much more abortions occuring in developing countries than in developed countries. [C] there was a dramatic drop in former munist Easter Europe between 1995 and 2020. [D] there was a big increase in contraceptive use in the region which still has the world’s highest abortion rate between 1995 and 2020. 4. Women in poor countries are much more likely dying in childbirth or pregnancy than women in rich countires because of _____. [A] botched procedures of abortion in poor countries [B] inequalities of development between rich and poor countries [C] ignorance of and little emphasis on the maternal health in poor countries [D] strict abortion laws in poor countries 5. The passage is mainly about_____. [A] a study on the aborition rate between developed and developing countries [B] a study on the aborition laws in different countries [C] a study on the general maternal health condition in different countries [D] a study on the influence of the aboriton laws on the abortion rate. 文章剖析 這篇文章介紹了嚴(yán)格限制墮胎的法律對(duì)墮胎率的實(shí)際影響。 詞匯注釋 : botch v. 做的拙劣 contraceptive adj. 避孕的 lest , 免得 sweeping adj. 范圍廣大的 , 總括的 。 [句子譯文 ]這項(xiàng)研究由紐約的 Guttmacher研究所和世界衛(wèi)生組織合作進(jìn)行,發(fā)表于英國醫(yī)療期 刊 Lancet 上,該