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Book Ⅹ Unit 1 Building the future A.Read the following essay quickly and answer these qusetions. 1.When was Live Aid held? 2.What does WEP stand for? 3.How many people has the WEP helped since it was established? B.The following is one of the winning eassys of a student writing competition.Read it to find out more about helping developing countries. Give a man a fish In 1985,there was little rainfall in Ethiopia,which led to destroyed harvests and killed cattle.The severity of this catastrophe shocked Bob Geldof,an Irish musician who organized a charity concert called Live Aid to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia.The concert took place on 13 July 1985 in two locations---in Lodon and in Philadelphia---and included the biggest stars of the time.Geldof intended the concert to raise money for and public awareness of the femine relief funding.The concert also received so much attention around the world that it put great pressure on politicians and statesmen to do something bout the famine. The Ethiopian famine was in 1985,and for many people in the developing world,disease and poverty are still serious problems.For examples.For example,the disease malaria,which is spread by mosquitoes,kills over one million children yearly.On top of this,according to the United Nations,hunger and malnutrition claim ten million lives every year.In fact,hunger is the number one global health risk,killing more people than any disease. In trying to fight worldwide hunger,the United Nations set up the World Food Programme (WFP) in 1963.the WFP has organized a number of programmes,including the Food-for-Life programme,which sends emergency food aid to countries during times of crisis;the Food-for-Growth programme,which targets people most at risk,such as babies,pregnant women and the elderly;the Food-for-Work programme,which helps unemployed people support themselves by giving them work and paying them in food aid.Though programmes like these,the WFP has helpde more than one billion