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 (空间) 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】

试题分析：短文大意：一万年前，世界人口很少。但在过去的三四百年它已经增长得十分快。两个万年前，在地球上只有250000000人。联合国的一份报告说，到世纪末世界人口将超过六十亿。这意味着我们必须种植更多的食品。并减少家庭规模，拥有较少但更健康的孩子。如果我们不这样做的话，在地球上甚至不会有足够的空间站立。

1. six billion by the end of this century.可知该填写population。

2. was very small.可知该填写slowly。

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考点：选词填空。