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关于防溺水安全的英语美文关于防溺水安全的英语美文：孟加拉国努力预防儿童溺水On a hot day, several 12-year-olds are learning to swim at a park in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is a rare sight to see an inflatable swimming pool on the grounds of the park.For the past seven years, local swim instructors have taught about 360,000 children to swim. Many of the boys and girls come from nearby villages.The swimming program is a service of a non-profit group called the Center for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh. The center says it has taught over 2,700 instructors to obey international swimming guidelines.Aminur Rahman is director of the International Drowning Research Center in Dhaka. He remembers one tragedy when a boy attempted to rescue his five-year-old brother from a pond.Then the villagers actually tried to search [for] the child and thought that he could be in the pond. So they use fishing net and unfortunately they got both the child from the water. They rescued the child by that time and both of them were dead. It was assumed they went to the pond for washing hands and feet and maybe the younger one may have fallen down in the pond and the older one who knew swimming but didn t know how to rescue others Maybe tried to rescue his younger, but unfortunately he couldn t do [it]. So it is a pity that both children drowned.Bangladesh sits on one of the world s largest river deltas, above the Bay of Bengal. It is a country of ponds and other waterways.Dr. Rahman says people often do not think of water as a threat because it is so close to many homes.Somebody says, we used to swim here, we go for bathing, washing, everything nothing happened. And sometimes they oftensay that it s God s will we cannot protect him. If the luck is that he will drown, he ll drown [and we] have nothing to do with that. This kind of misperception actually exists in the community.Most drowning deaths happen when unsupervised children fall into ponds within 20 meters of their homes.In recent years, child health has improved in Bangladesh. Deaths from diarrhea and pneumonia have dropped sharply. The two are the largest killers of children in many developing countries. However, there was no reduction in drowning deaths in Bangladesh.Most drowning victims are from poor, uneducated families in rural areas. Many children walk around nearby fields, roads and ponds on their own.At a school in Dhaka, 12-year-old Halima Sadia Tina recalled learning to swim.Now I can swim. When I went to my village house, I swim in that area and now I can swim better. The children who lived in rural areas they don t know what is kick, float, glide and other systemic way of swimming.Thirteen-year-old Rezul Islam says learning to kick was the most difficult part.The first time I was scared but after some time I became normal with the water. Now I can save myself from drowning and also I can save other children s life.A paper in the journal Pediatrics reported that in three years of the program, drownings among children between five and nine years old dropped 48 percent.With each child who grows confident in the water, Bangladesh makes progress against a preventable public health threat.关于防溺水安全的英语美文：溺水的城市In October last year, Hurricane Sandy hit the northeast coast of America, causing devastation to much of New York. I m IsabelHilton and I ve been to New York to look at the lessons the city has learned from Sandy and how it might cope with future floods and storms. This is The Drowning City. If you stand here in Battery Park at the very tip of Manhattan, you get, amongst other things, a great view of New York Harbour and the Statue of Liberty. This is where New York story began. But now it s facing an uncertain future. Just four months ago, after Hurricane Sandy ripped into New York, this park was under ten feet of water. Sandy, combined with steadily rising sea levels, had a devastating effect. It killed more than 100 people along the coast, destroying houses, flooding streets and subways and knocking out the power to over 8 million customers for days. Some people died. Some people lost their property. Some people lost their businesses. People died at Breezy Point where houses were overwhelmed, where houses were burnt, you know, some people didn t get out. When you put entire Wall Street out of business for days, that s vulnerable. When you have schools over hundreds of square miles not operating, that s vulnerable. Cell communication was down. Internet was down. People were killed because there re trees came crashing down on their houses. That s very vulnerable.去年10月，飓风桑迪席卷美国东北海岸，对纽约市大部分地区造成重创。