Question

閱讀短文，從方框中選擇適當(dāng)?shù)脑~并用其正確形式填空，使短文通順、意思完整。 

develop,small,more,nearly,control,ever,but,by, quick,must,increase,measure

Do you think that the population may be the greatest problem of the world today? I think so. 2，000 years ago,the world’s population was very 1      There were only 250 million people on earth. For several thousand years,it grew quite slowly. 2     during the last three or four hundred years,it has grown very 3     Today it is growing faster than 4     before. In one minute 5      200 babies will be bom in the world. Just think how many 6     there will be in a year!A UN report said that the population of the 7     countries had been 1,214 million in 1990. It is said that 8     the year 2010,the world’s population may be 7 billion. This means much more food 9     be produced. We must have smaller families with fewer but healthier children. Experts warn that we must take measures to 10     the population’s growing. If we don’t do something like that,there will be not enough space for anybody else to stand on the earth.

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Answer 1

 1. small 2. But 3. quickly 4. ever 5. nearly

6. more 7. developed 8. by 9. must 10. control