Fill in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.
36. China is the most …………………country of the world. (populate)
37. Population …………………means the pattern of where people live. (distribute)
38. Vietnam’s population is added …………………1 million people each year. (approximate)
39. Overpopulation over 7 billion people causes many social and …………………problems. (environment)
40. Air and water pollution is also one of the increasing problems due to the population …………………. (explode)
Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question
Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.
Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.
There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.
Which country has the greatest population in the world?
A. Canada
B. The United States
C. Britian
D. China
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
Every country has its own traditions, some of them have existed for centuries.
A. Every
B. its own
C. some of them
D. for
Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question
Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.
Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.
There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.
The world population may double in the next forty years because............................
A. people don't know how to limit population
B. government hasn't provided birth-control methods.
C. people are being born faster than they are dying
D. each individual isn't responsible for limiting population.
Traveling is one of the most popular forms recreations in the USA. Most American employees receive an annual vacation with pay, and it is a good time off for traveling. Traveling within the country is popular because foreign travel generally takes more time and money. However , Americans who wish to vacation outside the USA are free to go almost anywhere. Obtaining a passport is a routine matter. Every year about 13 million Americans travel abroad. The most popular vacation period are during the summer and during the two weeks school break on the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. These periods are also the most crowded and generally the most expensive time to travel, so people who can adjust their schedules sometimes choose to vacation in the autumn. America vacationers often travel by car. Most family have a car, and those who do not have can rent one. Cars are usually the economical way to travel, especially for the families. It is also fairly fast and convenient. Excellent high ways connect the major cities. They enable vacationers to travel at an almost steady speed of 55 or 65 miles an hour. Tourists that wants to travel faster often fly to their destination and then rent a car to go around when they get there.
Which sentence is not true?
a. Most American like traveling
b. Many American people travel abroad every year.
c. There is a two weeks break on the Christmas and New Year’s holiday.
d. It is difficult to obtain a passport in USA
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada's population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930's and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the1950's, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada's history, in the decade before 1911 when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950's supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960's was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
The word "trend" in line 9 is closest in meaning to
a. tendency
b. aim
c. growth
d. directive
I. Choose the word whose main stress pattern is not the same as that of the others.
1 a. Accomplish b. Indulge c. Avid d. Accompany
2 a. Popular b. Ability c. Pleasure d. Interest
II. Choose the word or phrase (a, b, c or d) that best fits the blank space in each sentence.
1 Bettie usually______ television in the evening.
a. Has watched b. Watch c. Watches d. Watching
2 It was at this corner______ the accident happened.
a. When b. That c. What d. Who
Ill. Choose the underlined word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that needs correcting.
1 When Tommy (A)was a little boy, he (B)used to (C)pretend that he (D)has a horse.
a. was b. used to c. pretend d. has
IV. Rewrite the sentences so that they are nearest in meaning to the sentence printed before them.
1- The value of these goods has fallen considerably in the past week
There has ..........................................................................................
2 - “Shall we go to Paris for the weekend, John?” Mary asked.
Mary suggested......................................................................................
Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question
Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.
Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.
There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.
Which of the following sentences is TRUE?
A. The faster the population grow the more natural resources we own.
B. The natural resources are always enough to supply the hugest population.
C. It's necessary to practise birth control to raise people's living standards.
D. The production of grains always meet the need of people.
Choose the correct answer – A,B,C or D – to each question
Mankind is feeling greater pressure from the expanding number of people. The area of the earth can never be expanded. Nor are there endless sources of food and clothing. Yet people are being born faster than they are dying. In the next forty years, the world population may double. How can so many people be fed? What is worse, there is danger that someday mankind will have only standing room.
Birth control should be a basic policy in our country. China has the greatest number of population in the world. With a high birth rate, the production of grains and goods will be unable to meet the need of the people. To raise people’s living standard, we must practise birth control.
There are disadvantages of a family having more children. First, parents cannot give their children a good breeding in food, clothing and shelter, let alone education. Second, child-rearing will exhaust the parents, leaving no time and energy for their work. Last, a family with more children will increase the burden of society.
In a family having more children,...............................
A. the parents cannot remember all the children's name.
B. the children cannot be given a good breeding in food, clothing, shelter, education.
C. the parents will die at their young age.
D. it's very difficult for children to take care of their parents.