Question

 

enough, health, later, pass, slowly, , population , fast , number, mean, much

 

Ten thousand years ago, the world’s 1. was very small. For several thousand years it grew quite 2. . But during the last three or four hundred years it has grown very 3. . Two thousan years ago , there were only 250 million people on the earth. One thousand six hundred years 4. , the 5. was over 500 million . In 1990, there were over five bilion. A UN report said that the word’s population would 6. six billion by the end of this century. This is just ten years after it reaches five billion. This 7. we must grow 8. food, and have smaller families with fewer, but 9. children. If we don’t do these things, the results will be bad. There will not be 10. space (空間) even to stand on the earth.

 

Answer 1

1.population

2.slowly

3.fast

4.later

5.number

6.pass

7.means

8.much

9.healthier

10.enough

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：一萬年前，世界人口很少。但在過去的三四百年它已經(jīng)增長得十分快。兩個萬年前，在地球上只有250000000人。聯(lián)合國的一份報告說，到世紀末世界人口將超過六十億。這意味著我們必須種植更多的食品。并減少家庭規(guī)模，擁有較少但更健康的孩子。如果我們不這樣做的話，在地球上甚至不會有足夠的空間站立。

1. six billion by the end of this century.可知該填寫population。

2. was very small.可知該填寫slowly。

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考點：選詞填空。