中考英语专题练习：短文填空(含答案)

话题五 社会与人口问题

Passage 9

Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry. In the past, ____1____ more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In ____2____ farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important ____3____ agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers ____4____ are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary.

And ____5____ families cannot be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So at present， people ____6____ like to have smaller families.

____7____ the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to ____8____ even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consist only of a man and a ____9____. A small number of families may ____10____ raising children as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people’s children, leaving those families free to move from job to job.

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6, would 7, In 8, move 9 woman 10, consider/regard Passage 10

A very important world problem is the growth of population on the earth. The population of the world today is more than 7,500,000,000. That is a great number and we know ____1____ quite well. The important thing is not how large the population of the world is now, ____2____ 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 ____3____ birth rate, look at the second ____4____ of your watch. Every second, four babies are ____5____ in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep up ____6____ the birth rate. The population is ____7____ faster and faster. So it goes on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to find food for over 350,000 mouths more.

This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year of 2030.There will be as ____8____ as 8,500,000,000 people on the ____9____! So this is one of the biggest ____10____ that you are going to meet within your life. 1, it 2, but 3, the 4, hand 5, born

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