Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.

　　A new United Nations report says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.

　　The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.

　　To get the latest updates, go to www.unsv.com.

　　Contributing: James Brooke

　　8. The passage mainly tells us __________.

　　A. What measures the Japan Government takes to solve the nuclear crisis .

　　B. Worries and influences caused by the nuclear crisis .

　　C. With great efforts of scientists , the Japan Government has put the nuclear crisis under control .

　　D. To explain that the nuclear crisis has less effect on its neighboring countries.

　　9. Which of the following is NOT the influences caused by the leak of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station?

　　A. Workers at the nuclear station are suffering the risk of death .

　　B. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing radiation, the kind released in a nuclear accident.

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