II. 文意選填:請依據上下文選出最適合的答案,並忽略大小寫。(10%) Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Human trafficking is a catastrophe that is __11__
people across the world. People in economically backward areas are, in particular, ending up as soft targets by trafficking.
According to a report by an Indian journalist Soma Basu for Youth Ki Awaaz (Voice of the Youth), traffickers are now running a
shocking __12__ with women from Nepal first being trafficked to Mumbai and their skin being removed in order to sell across the
country. This skin is being used for penis and __13__ enlargement across the globe. A 100-inch square path is sold to __14__ labs in
India for Rs 50,000 to Rs 1,00,000. It’s then exported to US-based firms that manufacture skin and tissue __15__ for cosmetic surgeries.
The skin tissues are also used for lip __16__ and plastic surgery, services for which India has become a new market.
The trade is so __17__ with a high demand for human tissues that many people have rapidly joined it and the network is growing
rapidly. Whorehouses in Mumbai and other parts of India are the skin factories catering to this rising demand since women are afraid to
complain as they have seen others being killed or tortured for refusing. __18__ women is a way to remove skin and it's routine in
__19__ where women are drugged and tied to beds if a client wants to try something adventurous. When the skin is missing, women just
assume that the client might have done it.
Women’s rights activists have expressed outrage over this since Nepal is one of the worst hit by trafficking in the world. It comes
at a point where Nepal current is struggling to balance with safe guarding the rights of women. In a country where there a woman is the
President, a woman is the chairman of the parliament and a woman is the chief justice why the women of Nepal are featured with such
__20__ of human rights.
(AB) deriding (AC) atrocities (AD) augmentation (AE) breast (BC) fraudulent
(BD) sedating (BE) brothels (CD) pathology (CE) scam (DE) lucrative
(ABC) plaguing (ABD) derivatives
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