Question

A very important world problem is the growth of population on the earth. The population of the world today is more than 6,500,000,000. That is a great number and we know it quite well. The important thing is not how large the population of the world is now, but is the rate (速度) of the growth. It is about 1.63% every year after the number of dead people has been taken away.

To give you some ideas of the birth rate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second, four babies are born in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You can not speak quickly enough to keep up with the birth rate. The population is growing faster and faster. So it goes on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to find food for over 350,000 mouths more.

This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year 2010—there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the earth! So this is one of the biggest problems that you are going to meet within your life.

1.What’s one of the important world problems today according to the passage?

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2.What is the growth rate of population every year?

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3.將文中畫線的句子翻譯成漢語。

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4.From the passage, how many new babies are there to be born in a minute?

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5.What may be the population of the world by the year 2010?

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Answer 1

1.The growth of the population on the earth.

2.It is about 1.63% every year after the number of dead people has been taken away.

3.重要的問題并不在于世界上現在有多少人口，而是在于人口增長的速度。

4.Two hundred and forty./240.

5.Seven billion.

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是現在世界上面臨的一個大問題是人口增長過快。每秒鐘有4個嬰兒出生。按照這個人口增長率，到2010年，世界上將會有70億人。

1.根據短文第一句話A very important world problem is the growth of population on the earth可知，地球上一個重要的世界問題是人口的增長。

2.根據短文第一段的最后一句話It is about 1.63% every year after the number of dead people has been taken away可知，現在世界人口的增長率，除掉已經去世的人，是1.63%。

3.原句中使用了not…but…的并列結構，意思是不是……而是……。how large the population of the world is，是how引導的一個從句，意思是世界上有多少人口；the rate of the growth人口增長的速度。

4.根據短文中Every second, four babies are born in the world.可知，每秒鐘世界上有4個嬰兒出生。按照這個數字計算，每分鐘是240個。

5.根據短文最后一段中This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year 2010—there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the earth!可知，按照現在的人口增長率，到2010年，世界上的人口將會達到70億，即seven billion。

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