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 2013—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.
根据短文内容，回答问题。
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.What is the important thing about the population?
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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 2013?
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1988年至1990年，一个名为“人口危机委员会”的组织对世界上100个大城市进行了调查。请根据下面12个主要大城市的调查表回答问题。
| Population (million) | (%)of income spent on food | Persons per room | (%)of houses with water and electricity | Telephones per 100 people | (%)of children in high school
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Tokyo | 28.7 | 18 | 0.9 | 100 | 44 | 97 |
Mexico City | 19.4 | 41 | 1.9 | 94 | 6 | 62 |
New York | 17.4 | 16 | 0.5 | 99 | 56 | 95 |
Sao Paulo | 17.2 | 50 | 0.8 | 100 | 16 | 67 |
Osaka | 16.8 | 18 | 0.6 | 98 | 42 | 97 |
Seoul | 15.8 | 34 | 2.0 | 100 | 22 | 90 |
Moscow | 13.2 | 33 | 1.3 | 100 | 39 | 100 |
Bombay | 12.9 | 57 | 4.2 | 85 | 5 | 49 |
Calcutta | 12.8 | 60 | 3.0 | 57 | 2 | 49 |
Buenos Aires | 12.4 | 40 | 1.3 | 86 | 14 | 51 |
Los Angeles | 11.5 | 12 | 0.5 | 94 | 35 | 90 |
London | 11.0 | 24 | 0.6 | 100 | 50 | 58 |
1.Of the following cities, people live in ______spend least of their income food.
A. Mexico City B. Buenos Aires C. Calcutta
2.Which city has the most people?
A. New York B. Moscow C. Tokyo
3.The number of the students studying in high schools in Tokyo out of 100 students is the same as that of___________.
A. Seoul B. Sao Paulo C. Osaka
4.In which city do all the houses have water and electricity?
A. London B. Los Angeles C. New York
5.According to the passage, which sentence is true?
A.It is the most difficult for people in Calcutta to make a phone call.
B.The people in London have the less room for each person than those in Osaka.
C.The cities above are all in Asia.
Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.
Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog(烟雾).
Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.
We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
1.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.
A. people did not have any modern machines
B. there was no modern medicine
C. both A and B
2.What is the biggest problem in today’s life?
A. pollution
B. Air pollution
C. Water Pollution
3.The most serious kind of pollution is ______.
A. noise pollution
B. air pollution
C. water pollution
4.Factories must clean their water ______.
A. after it is thrown away
B. when they are thrown away
C. before it is thrown away
5.From the passage we know that ______.
A. a few years ago, there was no smog at all
B. people are making rules in order to fight pollution
C. we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes
阅读以下四篇短文，请根据要求作答。A篇根据短文内容，判断下列句子，正确的用“A”，错误的用“B”。（每小题2分，共10分）B.C篇根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。（每小题2分，共20分）D篇根据短文内容回答问题。（每小题2分，共10分）
A
Clean water is not only important for people to produce food，but necessary for our life. However，many people in Asia and Africa don’t have enough clean water to use. The World Health Organization reports that almost 4,000 children die each day of dirty water or lack(缺乏)of water.
Farmers use 70－85% of the world fresh water to produce food. People usually don’t pay much attention to how much water industry(工业)uses，but you may be surprised to know that industry uses 59% of the water in developed countries.
Home use takes up(占据)only 8% in the world. But as cities grow，more water will be used. The local government has to try to make people use less water.
In 60% of European cities，people are saving water by using less. They even keep waste water for other use.
In Australia，the government has encouraged people to collect rainwater and recycle water from showers for a second use.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has made a water saving program to encourage families and businesses to check their water use and save more water. Scientists and the UN are looking for good water management as the key to solving the problem.We can all work together to protect our fresh water in our daily life.
1.In developed countries，most water is used by industry.
2.People in Asia have enough clean water to use.
3.To save water，Australians and Europeans both choose to recycle water for a second use.
4.According to the passage，scientists have found good ways to deal with water problems.
5.Home use of water will increase because of the growing of cities.
完形填空。（每小题1.5分，共15分）
It’s a good way for poor people to earn money by collecting rubbish in the Russian Capital City of Moscow. After spending days ___ thousands of empty bottles ,Leonid Konovalov, a 63- year-old Russian man has from rags(贫困) to riches.
The man’s previous(之前的) job was an in Siberia. He spent 20 years there . Because of the economic crisis (经济危机)，he his job last autumn. Soon he from Siberia to Moscow.
“ a matter of fact, hunger has become a serious social problem. Many Russians are drinking a little bit more than before, and this helped me the trouble,” Konovalov said.
It is said that Konovalov has collected about 2,000 bottles a day for the past year. He rubles (0.06 cents) from each one. As the work doesn’t require (需要) any skills , this many homeless people living in Russian to dig for old ,empty bottles or tins.
1.A. throwing B. collecting C. buying
2.A. go B. went C. gone
3.A. engineer B. teacher C. doctor
4.A. lost B. got C. received
5.A. reached B. went C. moved
6.A. As B. In C. For
7.A. happy B. pleased C. unhappy
8.A. get up B. get out of C. get off
9.A. earns B. takes C. pays
10.A. decides B. encourages C. discourages
A tsunami(海啸) _______ in some southern Asian countries in December, 2004.
________ homeless people had to stay in the open air.
A. happened; Thousands of
B. has happened; Thousands of
C. happened; Twelve thousands
