Question

【题目】阅读C篇短文，按要求完成下列各题。C
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. ①The 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 ②second hand of your watch. Every second, four babies are born in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! ③You can not speak quickly enough to keep up with the rate of the growth of the population. It is growing faster and faster. So it goes on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to find food for about 350,000 mouths more.
This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year 2050 — there will be as many as 7,500,000,000 people on the earth! So this is one of the biggest problems that you are going to meet in your life.
（1）将文中①处划线句子翻译成汉语。
（2）将文中②处划线短语翻译成汉语。
（3）将文中③处划线句子改写成同义句。Your speaking rate can not be quick the rate of the growth of the population.
（4）How many new babies are born in a minute according to the passage?
（5）What's one of the biggest world problems today according to the passage?

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）重要的事情并不是世界上现在有多少人口,而是人口增长的速度。
（2）秒针
（3）as,as
（4）240/Two hundred and forty.
（5）The rapid growth of population.
【解析】本文谈论世界人口快速增长的问题。
⑴句子翻译。这是一个复合句，句中使用了not……but结构，意思是“不是……而是……”，所以答案是：重要的事情并不是世界上现在有多少人口，而是人口增长的速度。
⑵短语翻译。根据定语of your watch和后一句every second（每一秒）可知second hand是手表的秒针，所以答案是：秒针。
⑶句型转换。原句意：你讲话的速度跟不上人口的出生速度。即：你的讲话速度没有人口增长的速度快。用as+形容词原级+as结构，根据中间的quick可知，所以答案是as；as。
⑷细节理解。根据第2段very second, four babies are born in the world可知每秒有4个婴儿诞生，一分钟就是4X60=240，所以答案是240或者Two hundred and forty。
⑸细节理解。根据第1段段可知现在最大的世界问题是人口增长过快，所以答案是The rapid growth of population.。