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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 smaller 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 ____________.
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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. become 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 complete 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 become ever larger c. fewer and fewer children will be born d. they will be making a lot of money
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I arrived in the United States on February 6,1966, but I remember my first day here very clearly. My friend was waiting
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for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o’clock in the afternoon. The weather was very cold and it was snowing, but I was too excited to mind. From the airport, my friend and I took a taxi to my hotel. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the first time and I stared in astonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their man-made beauty. My friend helped me unpack at the hotel and them left me because he had to go back to work. He promised to return the next day.
Shortly after my friend had left, I went to a restaurant near the hotel to get something to eat. Because I couldn’t speak a word of English, I couldn’t tell the waiter what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some gestures, but the waiter didn’t understand me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was eating. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway until I came to Times Square with its movie theatres, neon lights, and huge crowds of people. I did not feel tired, so I continued to walk around the city. I wanted to see everything on my first day. I knew it was impossible, but I wanted to try.
When I returned to the hotel, I was exhausted, but I couldn’t sleep because I kept hearing the fire and police sirens during the night. I lay awake and thought about New York. It was a very big and interesting city with many tall buildings and big cars, and full of noise and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to speak English. 6. On the way to his hotel, the writer _____________.
a. was silent all the time b. kept talking to his friend
c. showed his friend something he brought with him d. looked out of the window with great interest
7. He did not have what he really wanted, because _________.
a. he only made some gestures b. he did not order at all
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c. the waiter was unwilling to serve d. he could not make himself understood 8. The waiter ______________.
a. knew what he would order
b. finally understood what he said
c. served the same thing the man at the next table was having d. took the order through his gestures 9. After dinner, he _______________.
a. walked back to the hotel right away b. went to the movies
c. did some shopping on Broadway d. had a walking tour about the city
10. That night he could not sleep, because ______________.
a. he did not know what to do the next day b. he was not tired at all
c. he was thinking about his great city d. he kept hearing the fire and police sirens
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11. Successful language learners are learners _____ a purpose. 12. Successful language learners are independent learners.
They do not depend _____ the book or the teacher. 13. It is just like a 24-hour library, which enables us to
search ____ the right information we need by simply typing in some key words.
14. It is necessary for them to learn the language in order to communicate ____ these people and to learn from them. 15. ____ the other hand, if your language learning has been less than successful, you might do well to try some of the techniques outlined above.
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