Every year is busy for the Save the Children Fund but 1989 has been especially important. This independent organization devoted to the welfare of needy children throughout the world is seventy years old. Many children suffered hunger and homelessness at the end of the First World War. Concerned about the plight (困境) of these children, a group of British volunteers founded a new organization in 1919 to publicize the problems and help improve conditions. A founder member, Eglantyne Jebb, drew up the declaration of the "rights of the child", which was adopted by the League of Nations (later the United Nations). This charter (宪章) sums up the philosophy of Save the Children Fund’s work. The basic principle is that dignity and well-being are a vital part of the lives of children and a child should be protected regardless of race, nationality or creed (信仰).
In 1989 millions of children throughout the world are still innocent victims of war, famine and pov
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Shopping has always been something of an impulse activity, in which objects that catch our fancy while strolling are immediately bought on a whim. Advertisers and sellers have taken advantage of this fact, carefully positioning inexpensive but attractive items on paths that we are most likely to cross, hoping that our human nature will lead to a greater profit for them. With the dawn of the Internet and its exploding use across the world, the same tactics apply.
Advertisers now place "banners", links to commercial web sites decorated with attractive pictures designed to catch our eyes while browsing the webs, on key web sites with heavy traffic. They pay top dollar for the right, thus creating profits for the hosting web sites as well. These actions are performed in the hopes that during the course of our casual and leisurely web surfing, we’ll click on that banner that sparks our interest and thus, in theory, buy the products adverti
A. the policy Internet advertisers design to lure clientele and its outcome.
B. the process and mixed consequences of Internet advertising and shopping.
C. the biggest splash Internet advertisers have recently made in sales promotions.
D. the banners Internet advertisers take advantage of to arouse customers' interest.
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