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Happy  Birthday to Me (and My Mom)

     Forty-three years ago my mother went into labour for the second time. It was either very late New Year's Day or very early on the second day of 1969 depending on how you looked at it but either way, it was a full week past her due date when my mom woke up knowing it was time to wake my dad up. get dressed, pack up the car and head to the hospital. Her regular doctor was on vacation and when they reached the hospital they planned to deliver in* they were told that the doctor was on his way to another hospital so they should head there，in neighbouring city. Most surprising to me now is that she felt well enough to attend a New Year's party the previous night and stayed long enough to toast in the new year!

     My mom and her family had immigrated to the United States just twenty years earlier from El Salvador. And that was a lucky thing for me. Not only did my mom gain access to a belter education and career options here in the US for herself, each of her three daughters would also enjoy her access to quality maternity (孕产妇的）care. While the US is hardly the world leader in maternal health or birth outcomes， these days a woman faces a 1 in 2,100 risk of dying  during her life and in El Salvador, it’s 1 in 350-6 times worse. In 1969. that difference was even greater.

     However， I was pregnant with my second child in El Salvador six years ago when I realized how very different my life might have turned out if I'd lived there when I delivered my first child. I travelled down there with CARE, the humanitarian relief organization. whose efforts my mom had long supported, to see some of their principal programmes in action. Among them was one in particular that remains with me today. It was a water project where pregnant women, many of whom had walked miles to access this clean water，receive some basic care before or after childbirth. Here these women were，facing the exact same physical challenges as me hut still carrying the full work load of the family and with little to no resources for information，care, transportation or comfort during or after their pregnancies.

     By this time，I was all loo aware of what a challenge childbirth could be. After delivering my daughter in 2003，I survived a hemorrhage (大出血），the leading childbirth-related complication (hat takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world. One girl or woman dies every 90 seconds in pregnancy or childbirth

from what is in most cases a preventable death. I was as shocked as you arc when I discovered this fact but I was also grateful. Grateful because I had been in the care of a team of health worktT^ when 1 needed them most.

     I thought of my mother's life. While she had been born in a good hospital in San Salvador in the 1930's, at that time pregnancy-related deaths were common even in the US, My great grandmother also hemorrhaged* only after delivering her filth child and she died. Her husband, my mom's grandfather was a physician at the time. He would give up practising medicine forever when he couldn’t save her.

    But it wasn't only my mom and her family that I thought of as I considered

my own fate and good fortune, it was all those women I’d spent the day with in the rural community I d visited with CARE* Wc tl made a connection that day，we mothers，as women. These women did not have access to the simple interventions (介入）that could insure their survival and that’s what concerned me. It did more than concern me, it woke me up and begged this question，why should any one life be of different value than any other?

     And so，I made the commitment right there and then to do all I could to improve maternal health and reduce the number ot maternal deaths around the globe.

65. The underlined phrase “ went into labour ”，in Paragraph 1 means

“      ”.

A. suffered from a disease     birth to a baby

up m offer of work     ed up the house

66. According to the passage，the writer felt fortunate enough      .

A. to enjoy the best maternity care in the world

B. to attend better schools in the United States

C. to live in a developed country permanently

D. to have a better sense of maternal security

67. When she returned to her motherland six years ago，the writer    .

A. regretted not delivering her first child there

B. was very surprised at the great changes there

C. offered special care to women in need there

D. researched into the medical conditions there

68. The writer realized the vital importance of maternity care

ugh her own experience

B. with the help of health workers

C. during her slay in El Salvador

D. upon the death of some women

69. The writer is obviously determined to           .

A. be a physician different from her great grandfather

B. change the situation in the field of maternal health

C. request more people to care about maternity care

D. volunteer care during or after women's pregnancies

70. What conclusion docs the passage lead you to?

A. Pregnancy-related deaths can hardly be kept from happening.

h and death went hand in hand with each other very often,

C. Physicians failed to save patients from various curable diseases.

D. Women would rather have no children for tear of a hemorrhage.

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