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问题描述:

The world’s population continues to grow. There now are about 4 billion of us on earth. That could reach 6 billion by the end of the century and 11 billion in a further 75 years. Experts have long been concerned about such a growth. Where will we find the food, water, jobs, houses, school and health care for all these people?

A major new study shows that the situation may be changing. A large and rapid drop in the world’s birth rate has taken place during the past 10 years. Families generally are *** aller now than they were a few years ago. It is happening in both developing and industrial nations.

Researchers said they found a number of reasons for this. More men and women are waiting longer to get married and are using birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy. More women are going to school or working at jobs away from home instead of having children. And more governments, especially in developing nations, now support family planning programs to reduce population grow.

China is one of the nations that have made great progress in reducing its population growth. China has already cut its rate of population growth by about half since 1970.

Each Chinese family is now urged to have no more than one child. And the hope is to reach a zero population growth with the total number of births equaling the total number of deaths by the year 2000.

Several nations in Europe already have fewer births than deaths. Experts said that these nations could face a serious shortage of workers in the future. And the persons who are working could face much higher taxes to help support the growing number of retired people.

1. The world’s population could reach ____________.

a. 6 billion in 75 years

b. 11 billion in 2075

c. 11 billion by the end of this century

d. 600 million in 15 years

2. Which of the following is true?

a. The world’s birth rate is higher than ten years ago.

b. There has been a slower population growth in the past ten years.

c. Families are as large as before.

d. Birth control has been well practiced in all nations.

3. By the year 2000, the number of births and the number of deaths in China will _______.

a. be greatly different

b. drop a great deal

c. be equal

d. bee much larger

4. According to the essay, China’s population control ________.

a. is not quite successful

b. should be considered a big success

c. is far from being successful

d. is a plete failure

5. It may happen in the future that the people who are working in Europe will have to pay much higher taxes because___________.

a. more and more children will be born

b. the number of retired people will bee ever larger

c. fewer and fewer children will be born

d. they will be making a lot of money

解析:

译文 : 世界的人口继续增长。 在地球上大约我们中的40亿个现在有。 那在世纪和更长的75 年份中的110亿个末之前能达到60亿。 专家早就担心这样的发展。 我们将在哪里找到食品，水，工作，房子，学校和健康照顾所有这些人？ 一项较大的新研究显示形势可能正改变。 在世界的出生率方面的大和迅速的下降已经在过去10 年期间发生。 家庭与他们几年以前相比现在一般更小。 它正在发展和工业国过程中发生。 研究人员说他们找到这的许多原因。 更多的男人和妇女正等很久结婚并且正使用诞生控制装置和防止的方法或者延迟怀孕。 更多的妇女正离开家在工作去上学或者工作而不是有孩子。 以及更多的 *** ，特别是发展国家，现在降低人口的支持计划生育方案增长。 中国是已经在降低它的人口增长过程中取得大的进步的国家之一。 中国已经从1970年起以大约一半削减它的人口增长的比率。 每个中国家庭现在被催促有顶多一个孩子。 并且希望是用在2000 年以前等于死的总数的诞生的总数达到一次人口无增长。 与死相比较，在欧洲的几个国家已经有更少的诞生。 专家说这些国家将来能面临工人的严重的短缺。 并且正工作的那些人能很多面向 更高的税款帮助支持日益增多的退休的人。

1.世界的人口能伸 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . 在15 年内的在这个世纪末之前在2075 c. 110亿在75 年b. 110亿内的a. 60亿d. 6亿

2.如下内容中的哪些是真实的？ a.世界的出生率比10 年以前高。 b.在过去的10 年中有更慢的人口增长。 c. 家庭象以前一样大。 d.节育已经被在全部国家实践得好。 3.在2000 年以前，诞生的数量和在中国的死的数量将 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . 成为大得多的4，a.非常不同b. 下降许多c.是相等的d.。 根据散文，中国的人口控制 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . 不是成功的d.是完整的失败5 a.不是成功b.的十分应该考虑大的成功c.。 正在欧洲工作的人们必须支付高得多的税款，这将来可能发生因为 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . a.越来越多的孩子 将面世的数量退休人们将变得孩子的越来越少的将出生他们将挣大钱的d.的大c.的b。