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DEVELOPMENT REPORT

March 4, 2002: Gates Foundation


By Jill Moss 1



This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


The richest man in the world is an American, Bill Gates. He started Microsoft, the company that makes computer
programs and operating systems. Two years ago, Mister Gates and his wife Melinda decided 2 to use some of their
money to improve the lives of people in developing countries.


They started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. The foundation has twenty-four thousand-
million dollars. It is the biggest not-for-profit organization in the world. Bill and Melinda Gates started
the foundation because they believed progress in medical science and information technology was not reaching
people in developing countries. Their foundation finances 3 programs aimed at improving health and education in
poor countries.



One of the foundation’s major goals is the development of new medicines to
prevent and treat tuberculosis 4, malaria 5 and AIDS. The World Health Organization
reports that these three diseases kill more than five-million people a year.


Another leading foundation project is an effort to reduce death rates for babies in
poor countries. The foundation also supports efforts to provide necessary medicines
to prevent diseases among children in seventy-four developing countries. It also


supports training programs for health workers.


Bill and Melinda Gates are also concerned about connecting people to the Internet computer system. The
foundation believes men and women of all ages and races should be able to use the Internet as a tool for lifelong
learning. For example, the foundation gave nine-million dollars to more than three -hundred-fifty public libraries
in Chile for computers and technology training.


The Gates Foundation usually provides money to developing countries in the form of a gift or grant. However,
there are conditions for receiving grants. Governments or other not-for-profit organizations working in a country
must promise to provide an equal amount of money. The receiver must also meet performance goals or risk
losing the money.


For more information, write to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P-O Box two-three-three-five -zero,
Seattle, Washington, nine-eight -one-zero-two, U-S-A. Or, e-mail the organization at info-at-gatesfoundation-dotorg.



This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.



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n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
n.(pl.)财源,资产
  • I need a professional to sort out my finances. 我需要专业人士为我管理财务。
  • The company's finances are looking a bIt'shaky. 这个公司的财政情况看来有点不稳定。
n.结核病,肺结核
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
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aluminum acetate solution
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be in deep water
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bullionmarket
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coelacanthids
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cronos
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dinitramine
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dorsal commissure
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flash sale
format specification
fredriksons
from among
gabalina
gear stage velocity ratio
genus taraktogenoss
hallmarking
hardware error
harties
high baritone
home-brews
homo erectus heidelbergensis
Hranovnica
ii kingss
in a blue moon
intelligent simulation support system
intersymbol error
kamui
Kinaden
Kwedia
light derrick boom
lous
mandibular prosthesis
mccleskey
mean time between removals
Meliau
mexicoes
molecular orientation
Naberezhnyye Chelny
netwriter
niinde
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output disturbance
painted printed circuit
pan amalgamation
personalitywise
petits-fours
poorly-drained
popcorn film
prevable
r.p.m
Rabdosia stracheyi
redshortness
reinforced frame
release from debt
rhopographus babai
satyrium esakii
secular Jew
separable constraint
shafting efficiency
sigue
Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other
skirting-board
solar drying
Stooded
structure-oriented description and simulation
thumprinting
transmigrator
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turdball
underwriting year basis
usonian
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varicated
vemeer
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