Ten years ago, the world's population was about 6 billion. By the end of October, 2011 ，it reached 7 billion.

With five babies being born every second, the world's p 1 will increase by 78 million every year.

  It's reported that the next landmark(里程碑)number will be 8 2 ( /'blljan/) before 2040.

The population 3 rapidly. Most of them come from the world's poorest countries. It is expected(期望)to double the 4 (数字) over the next ten years.

  Robert Kunzig is a writer. He wrote an article n  5  7 Billion. In the article, he said, " 6 (I Would) the population still growing by about 80 million each year,it's 7 not to be alarmed(恐慌).Right now on Earth，water level is falling, soil is polluted, and many kinds of fish are 8 (消失).Nearly a billion people are h 9 each day."

  Researchers(研究者)say the world's population will10 (/riitf/) about 9 billion in the middle of the century.

  "How are we going to feed 9 billion people by 2050? It is a hard problem to solve," said Mr Kunzig.

1.___________ 2._________  3.__________

4._________  5._________  6.___________

7.___________ 8._________  9.___________

  Nowadays, the biggest problem may be the increasing population of the world. How to 1 the population growth(增长)is a big challenge(挑战).Some people think it's impossible(不可肯g的)to control the population growth. But I don't quite 2 them because where there is a will, there is a way.

  The question is how we can make everyone know how 3the population problem is. Our farmland is becoming smaller and smaller to everyone. We have already got the many mouths to If we don't control the population growth，many people will 5 the danger of hunger. In some places，little is done to 6 the one-child policy. We should make people 7 that a family can't have too many children. They can no longer do 8 they were looking forward to many years ago.

  We are fighting 9 the fast population growth. Yet the fighting won't end until 10 knows its importance and does something for it.
(   ) 1. A. stop    B. control

      C. improve    D. develop

(   ) 2. A. care for    B. worry about

      C. agree with    D. deal with
(   ) 3. A. serious    B. difficult

       C. terrible    D. popular

(   ) 4. A. talk    B. help

      C. feed    D. offer

(   ) 5. A. face    B. see

       C. find    D. watch

(   ) 6. A. put on    B. carry out

       C. come put    D. put up

(   ) 7. A. feel    B. explain

       C. guess    D. know

(   ) 8. A. how    B. why

      C. that    D. what

(   ) 9. A. for    B. against

        C. about    D. with

(   ) 10. A. someone    B. anyone

       C. everyone    D. no one

 Godelive Ndageraniwe is a woman with eight children. Her family lives in a village in Burundi(布隆迪)in Africa. The 40-year-old mother is going to have her ninth baby soon. But she wishes she didn't have so many children. " Now, I wish I had only two or three children”，she says. Her children don't have enough food to eat. Three of them have stopped going to school because they don't have enough money.

  Every second，more than four babies are born and less than two people die. As a result, the world's population keeps increasing. A report by the UN said that there were 7 billion people on the Earth by October 31， 2011. It was just 12 years after the world welcomed its "6 billion baby" on October 12， 1999.

  With more and more people in the world， there will be less land and water for each person. The major problem will be feeding the newcomers. Finding housing and medical care for everyone will also be difficult.

  For now，the Chinese mainland has a population of 1. 34 billion. It is still the largest in the world. In the past ten years it added 73. 9 million, more than the population of France or Thailand.

  However, its growth has slowed. It is said that the population will stop increasing in 2027. By 2050，some experts(专家)believe that its population will be smaller than it is today.

  This is thanks to the family planning policy that started in the 1970s. At that time, each Chinese woman had five to six children on average(平均).Now，the number is around 1.5.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1. What's Godelive Ndageraniwe's problem according to the passage?

A.    She has no food to eat.

B.     She has no rooms to live in.

C.    Her children don't like to go to school.

D. She has too many children to raise.
(   ) 2. The second paragraph mainly wants to tell us that      

A.    when four babies are born,two man died

B.     the world's population is 7 billion now

C.    the world's population is increasing rapidly

D.    it takes 12 years for the world's population to grow from 6 billion to 7 billion

(   ) 3. By which year will the population of China stop increasing?
A.2027. B.2030.

C.2040. D.2050.

(   ) 4. What problem that the large population will cause is NOT mentioned in the passage？

A.   Food problem.

B.    House problem.

C.    Environment problem.

D.   Medical care problem.

(   ) 5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.   The population of France and Thailand is 73.9 million.

B.    The world's population will keep increasing in the future.

C.    Chinese family has two children on average now.

D. The population of China will be smaller in the future than it is today.

(   ) 10. ―1 have      told her your number.Has she called you？ 

       ——No, she hasn't.

A.   already;already

B.    yet;yet

C . yet;already 

D. already;yet

(   ) 9.________ Miss Wang's help, Li Ping has made great progress in her maths.

A. Thanks to    B. Thanks for
C. Thank to    D. Because

(   ) 8. So far,we      to sing five English songs this term(学期).

A. learned    B. have learned

C. are learning    D. will learn

(   ) 7.——It's said that Maria has just come back from Fujian. Shall we ____ ？

       —Good idea.

A. call up her    B. call her at 

C. call at her    D. call her up

(   ) 6.________ of the students in our class can work out this problem.

A. Third fives    B. Three five

C,Three fifths D. Third fifth

(   ) 5. —Do you know how a computer works， Jerry?

      ―By      __ the orders typed by people.

A. taking out    B. looking out
C. going out    D. carrying out

(   ) 4. I bought some medicine for my cold, but after I took it，I felt even      

A. better    B. worse

C. angrier    D. healthier