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2017考研英语拓展阅读：常州中学污染是监管缺失？
Hundreds of students at a high school in East China’s Jiangsu Province were sickened by alleged environmental pollution from nearby former chemical factories, media reported Sunday.
Since Changzhou Foreign Languages School (CFLS) relocated to its current site in September 2015, a total of 493 students at the school have developed abnormal blood parameters and diseases such as dermatitis, eczema and bronchitis, while some have even been diagnosed with leukemia and lymphoma, China Central Television (CCTV) reported.
Parents have attributed the illnesses to a construction site north of the school, where three chemical factories used to stand.
The level of pollutants detected in the groundwater and soil at the construction site were excessively above safety standards, with chlorobenzene levels as much as 100,000 times higher than the standard, according to the CCTV report.
One employee who had worked for 30 years in one of the three factories, Jiangsu Changlong Chemicals Co, was quoted as saying by CCTV that some employees would dispose of contaminated water directly outside the factory and often buried dangerous waste underground.
Ji Zhong, a deputy director of Changzhou’s education commission, insisted that CFLS’ new site had passed an environmental assessment and noted that the school was moved to its current location due to safety hazards at its previous facilities, CCTV reported.
据有关媒体在周日的报道，自从江苏省常州外国语学校搬迁新址过后，已有数百名学生病倒。据悉，常外新校区附近以前有几家化工厂，据推测此次的学生病倒事件正是由于遗留下来的环境污染造成的。
据CCTV报道，自从去年九月常州外国语搬到新校区以来，已经有493名学生病倒。学生们被检测出有不同程度的血液异常和疾病，有些学生患上了皮炎、湿疹、支气管炎，更甚至还被诊断出患有白血病和淋巴瘤。
学生家长们认为罪魁祸首是学校北面的一处建筑工地，因为那里曾有3家化工厂，严重污染了环境。
据CCTV的报道，通过对该工地进行污染物检测实验，人们发现那里的地下水和土壤中的污染物含量都远超国家安全标准。以氯苯含量来说，该地区的检测结果超过了国家最高标准10万倍。
上述三家企业中有一家名为江苏常隆化工有限公司，据该公司一名30年工龄的员工向CCTV透露，有一些工人直接把污水倒在工厂外面，而且经常就地掩埋危险污染物。
据CCTV据对常州市教委副主任继忠(音)的采访，他坚持表明常外新校区是通过环境评估了的，并且指出是出于对旧址安全问题的考虑，常外才决定搬迁到新校区的。