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German, spoken by just over 100 million people, is one of the world’s ten-largest languages ()population.
A . inplaceof
B . bymeansof
C . intermsof
D . bywayof
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The population of the earth()increasing fast. One third of the population here()workers.
A . is;are
B . is;hasbeen
C . are;is
D . is;wa
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The population of the world is growing at a dangerous()
A . measure
B . rate
C . increase
D . progre
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In which year the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program recommended that July 11 be observed by the international community as World Population Day?
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Translate the sentences into Chinese.1 Now the world’s population is forecast to continue growing and may hit 11 billion by 2100.
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Which organization assumed that the day, July 11, 1987, was World Population Day, on which the earth’s population has exceeded 5 billion?
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The British Empire rules 1/4 of the world’s population and 1/4 of world’s land.
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In most countries of the world the population is increasing alarmingly. This is especially true in poor, underdeveloped countries. Overpopulation causes a considerable number of problems. 意为:世界上大多数国家的人口正以惊人的速度增长。在贫穷、不发达的国家尤其如此。人口过多引起了相当多的问题。
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“ China has larger population than any other country in the world.” This is a fact .
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1. Why the speaker say “.If you took the entire population of the world, all six billion of us, and removed that empty space, then we could be squeezed into a cube smaller than a sugar cube”?
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The world's exploding population signals even more growing pains ahead for already crowded areas. A new United Nations study forecasts that by the year 2000,2 billion persons will be added to the 4.4 billion in the world today.
Even more troubling than the increasing number of inhabitants are the projections of where they will be concentrated. The study by Rafael M. Solos, executive director of the U. N. Fund for Population Activities, notes that by the year 2000:
Nearly 80 percent of all people will live in less developed countries, many hard pressed to support their present populations. That compares with 70 percent today.
In many of these Third World lands metropolises (大城市) will become centers of concentrated urban poverty because of a flood of migration from rural areas.
The bulging(膨胀的) centers mainly in Asia and Latin America, will increasingly become fertile fields for social unrest. More young residents of the urban clusters(一群) will be better educated, unemployed and demanding of a better lifestyle.
To slow the rush to urban centers, countries will have to vastly expand opportunities in the country side, the study suggests. Solos says: "The solution to the urban problem lies as much in the rural areas as in the cities themselves."
Worldwide, the numer of large cities ,will multiply. Now 26 cities have 5 million or more residents each and a combined population of 252 million. By the end of the decade, the number will escalate to 60. with an estimated total of almost 650 million people.
In the last paragraph, the word "escalate" means ______.
A.decrease
B.increase
C.go down
D.decline
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听力原文:Less than 10 years after the birth of worldwide web, some 260 million people are on line around the world and the internet population is expected to be over 500 million by the time of its 10 year anniversary.
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A.People using the Internet will soon be almost doubled.
B.Population is exploding because of the Internet.
C.Ten years ago, only rich people can afford to use the Internet.
D.The Internet population will increase two fold in ten years.
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World population in the twenty-first century will probably exceed billion.
此题为多项选择题。
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It took______ for the world to increases its population from 1 billion to 4 billion.
A.100 years
B.145 years
C.1975 years
D.over two million years
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It is the prevention of disease ______its successful treatment that has led to the rapid increase of the world' s population.
A.rather than
B.including
C.but also
D.less than
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Remember Second Life, the virtual world that was supposed to become almost as important as the first one? Now populated by no more than 84,000 avatars at a time, it has turned out to be a prime example of how short-lived Internet fads can be. Yet if many adults seem to have given up on virtual worlds, those that cater to children and teenagers are thriving. Several have even found a way to make money.
In America, nearly 10 million children and teenagers visit virtual worlds regularly, estimates eMarketer, a market researcher-a number the firm expects to increase to 15 million by 2013.As in January, there were 112 virtual worlds designed for under-18s with another 81 in development, according to Engage Digital Media, a market research firm.
All cater to different age groups and tastes. In Club Penguin, the market leader, which was bought by Disney in 2007 for a whopping $ 700 million, primary-school children can take on a penguin persona, fit out their own igloo and play games. Habbo Hotel, a service run from Finland, is a global hangout for teenagers who want to customise their own rooms and meet in public places to attend events. Gala Online, based in Silicon Valley, offers similar activities, but is visited mostly by older teens who are into Manga comics.
Not a hit with advertisers, these online worlds earn most of their money from the sale of virtual goods, such as items to spruce up an avatar or a private room. They are paid for in a private currency, which members earn by participating in various activities, trading items or buying them with real dollars.
This sort of stealth tax seems to work. At Gala Online, users spend more than $1 million per month on virtual items, says Craig Sherman, the firm's chief executive. Running such a virtual economy is not easy, which is why Gaia has hired a full-time economist to grapple with problems that are well known in the real world, such as inflation and an unequal distribution of wealth.
There are other barriers that could limit the growth of virtual worlds for the young, but the main one is parents. Many do not want their offspring roaming virtual worlds, either because they are too commercial or are thought to be too dangerous. Keeping them safe is one of the biggest running costs, because their sponsors have to employ real people to police their realms.
Youngsters are also a fickle bunch, says Simon Levene of Accel Partners, a venture- capital firm. Just as children move from one toy to another, they readily switch worlds or social networks, often without saying goodbye.
Even so, Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at eMarketer, believes "these worlds are a training ground for the three-dimensional web". If virtual worlds for adults, which so far have been able to retain only hardcore users, manage to hang on for a few years, they may yet have a second life.
In the first paragraph it says that "Several have even found a way to make money" Which of the following could possibly be the "way" ?
A.Sales of the copies of the game.
B.Sales of virtual goods in the game.
C.Sales of game peripheral goods, such as dolls and OST CDs.
D.Development of different games towards gamers of different ages.
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The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you'd expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other's countries at a moderate cost. What was once the "grand tour", reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody's grasp. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn't have dreamed of. But what's the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other?
Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants are temporarily reestablished on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.
The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We don't see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers. So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions. You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression that, say, "Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites" or that "Latin peoples shout a lot". You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact--how trite it sounds! That all people are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.
The best title for this passage is ______.
A.tourism contributes nothing to increasing understanding between nations
B.tourism is tiresome
C.conducted tour is dull
D.tourism really does something to one's country
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No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada.
In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as get older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.
Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many progressive disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form. of a mental illness. All are affected by people's attitude towards them.
Disabled people face many physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers: prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and sow that it is the individual person and their ability, not their disability, which counts.
The first paragraph points out that ______.
A.there are many disabled people in the world
B.the number of disabled people in India is the greatest
C.India has much more disabled people than Canada
D.it is impossible to get an exact figure of the world' s disabled people
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The United Nations published a report that was called "The State of World Population". It shows that the growth rate of world population. will actually go down in the next ten years. The growth rate will fall from the present 1.8% to a rate of about 1.6% by the end of this century. But the report also points out that problems of food, health care, housing care, housing, jobs and schools will get worse unless we do something about the situation.
Why is this? Although the total growth rate of the world population will decrease(下降), in some countries there will be a big rise in the population. More people will be born in Third World countries than in the richer Northern countries. So the population will grow faster in poor countries; and the problems in these countries will be very serious. This is because the family is more likely to survive(幸存) if there are a lot of children to work for the members who become old or who cannot find work. A survey of the UN also shows that the growth rate is low where there is a higher level of income, better education, more health care and better living conditions. In this aspect, government plays an important role. So, the conclusion of the UN report is: "Look after the people and the population will look after itself."
What can we learn about the growth rate of population?
A.The total growth rate of world population will increase.
B.The growth rate of population in richer countries will increase.
C.The growth rate of population in poor countries will increase.
D.The total growth rate in American countries will increase.
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In recent years American society has become increasingly dependent on its universities to find solutions to its major problems. It is the universities that have been charged with the principal responsibility for developing the expertise to place men on the moon; for dealing with our urban problems, and with our deteriorating environment; for developing the means to feed the world's rapidly increasing population. The effort involved in meeting these demands presents its own problems. In addition, this concentration on the creation of new knowledge significantly impinges on the universities' efforts to perform. their other principal functions, the transmission and interpretation of knowledge—the imparting of the heritage of the past and the preparing of the next generation to carry it forward.
With regard to this, perhaps their most traditionally sanctioned task, colleges and universities today find themselves in a serious bind generally. On the one hand, there is the American commitment, entered into especially since World War II, to provide higher education for all young people who can profit from it. The result of the commitment has been a dramatic rise in enrollments in our universities, coupled with a radical shift from the private to the public sector of higher education. On the other hand, there are serious and continuing limitations on the resources available for higher education.
While higher education has become a great "growth industry", it is also simultaneously a tremendous drain on the resources of the nation. With the vast increase in enrollment and the shift in priorities away from education in state and federal budgets, there is in most of our public institutions a significant decrease in per capita outlay for their students. One crucial aspect of this drain on resources lies in the persistent shortage of trained faculty, which has led, in turn, to a declining standard of competence in instruction.
Intensifying these difficulties is, as indicated above, the concern with research, with its competing claims on resources and the attention of the faculty. In addition, there is a strong tendency for the institutions' organization and functioning to conform. to the demands of research rather thorn those of teaching.
According to the author, ______ is the most important function of institutions of higher education.
A.creating new knowledge
B.providing solutions to social problems
C.making experts on sophisticated industries out of their students
D.preparing their students to transmit inherited knowledge
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Given the present growth rate of the world's population and our ability to produce food______.
A.the United States will be able to feed half the world by 2025
B.the future will see no more hunger
C.we will encounter very serious problem in the near future
D.the developed nations will change in the near future
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In 1971 there were about 3,700 million people in the world. If the population were 【C1】______ evenly over the earth' s surface there would be about 50 people to the square mile; but there are vast areas of desert and mountain and tropical forest 【C2】______ are uninhabited, 【C3】______ at the other 【C4】______ , in the great cities millions may live within a few square miles.
【C5】______ of the world' s population is concentrated on only a small 【C6】______ of the earth' s land surface, in the rich valleys and 【C7】______ plains, because people up to the present time have 【C8】______ to congregate in place where the climate and soil make it easy to grow food and obtain shelter.
A 【C9】______ world population and the discoveries of science 【C10】______ this pattern of distribution in the future. As men slowly learn to master diseases, control floods, prevent famines, and stop wars, fewer people die every year; and in 【C11】______ the population of the world is steadily 【C12】______ .
When numbers 【C13】______ , the extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought 【C14】______ cultivation, or land already 【C15】______ , made to yield larger crops. In some areas the accessible land is largely so intensively cultivated 【C16】______ it will be difficult to make it 【C17】______ more food. in some areas the population is so dense that the land is divided into. units 【C18】______ tiny to allow for much improvement in farming methods. 【C19】______ a large part of this farming population drawn 【C20】______ into industrial occupations, the land might be farmed much more productively by modern methods.
【C1】______
A.scattered
B.restrained
C.separated
D.resembled
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听力原文:By the year 2000, the population of the developing world living in urban areas had risen to about 46% and it is estimated to reach more than 57% by the year 2025.
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请阅读Passage 1。完成第小题。Passage 1African elephants have been slaughtered at alarming rate over the past decade, largely because they are the primary source of the worlds ivory. Their population has been dw
A.Subjective.
B.Neutral.
C.Pessimistic.
D.Active.