时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


英语课

February the 14th is National Condom Day. It aims to raise awareness 1 of safe sex and the reasons for it. Today we live in a world where unwanted pregnancies 2 and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS, are on the increase. This increase can be reversed with proper education, especially among young people. Half of reported STDs in the USA are among the age group 15-24. America’s Social Health Association encourages young people not to risk having sexual relations as the best way of avoiding STDs. However, it also recognizes that young people will choose to be sexually active and that it is essential to teach them about the importance of condoms and how to use them correctly.


Condoms have been used for over 400 years. They were originally made from the intestines 3 of animals. Since the nineteenth century, they have been the most popular method of contraception and birth control in the world. They have saved countless 4 lives and have prevented young girls from becoming pregnant. They are widely accepted in many countries, although the embarrassment  of talking about them has not yet disappeared. In other countries they are controversial and banned. The Roman Catholic Church opposes condom use. The demand for and use of condoms is growing rapidly. It is estimated people will buy 18.6 billion condoms in 2015.



1 awareness
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
2 pregnancies
怀孕,妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )
  • Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象,战时人口正该补充。
  • She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。
3 intestines
n.肠( intestine的名词复数 )
  • Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
  • The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句
4 countless
adj.无数的,多得不计其数的
  • In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
  • I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。
学英语单词
acrodictys reniforma
aleurometer
alpha-naphthol reaction
Ambloplites rupestris
antixerophthalmic factor
ariseth
at loose end
axial seal
bankruptcy court
bath agitation
bch bound
biochemistry laboratory
black hole neighbourhood
brushless machine
Castiglione dei Pepoli
ciales
clamourousness
Clifts
cold plume
concentration solubility product
conditional sales
Coolidge tubes
cursing
cuticular colour
cyclic disorder
despatch half demmurage
disc blade
Dzungarians
elasticity of individual demand
electrical instrumentation
electrotape
equilibrium error
facial information
fixed piping system
flat film
floor lug
Ghizunabeana Is.
grand viziers
granular carbon
Gugh
ill-fated
improvidential
isosteric heat of adsorption
jachendars
kars
key-drawing
lacklustrely
last recorded price
leg-byes
light paste
light-to-dark currents ratio
lime dry process
limit of measurability
Los Sabinos
magnesium chloride brine
merrymade
michaelsonite
micropterous
mild drawn wire
minosaminomycin
misspoke
multiple star of Trapezium type
neuritises
non-coherent carrier
opalescences
pancreatomies
pantomimical
partisanly
pedagogical science
pentacarbonyl
perdreaux
PF3T
play sb up
poo-chi
potential enstrophy
power source for indication lamp
prevulcanization
psychological therapeutics
quieted
rate constant
residual stress by welding
root of hair
sacred fig
Shiel.
shim (ming) valve
shoe-gazing
side moraine
Side-Chain-Cleaving
steering gear column bushing
steering transistor
superlunar
supradental
surrogate court
taffiest
take-it-or-leave-it
Tamm, Igor Evgenievich
trencherlike
tropic rainy climate
unallayable
unescapableness
viviparous eelpout
volutae