M9U1（5分钟）

Module 9 Population

Unit1 the population of China is about 1.37 billion

Betty: What are you doing?

Tony: I’m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population.”

Lingling: Well, were in the right place to talk about that! Beijing is a huge city with a big population that causes a lot of problems, such as too much traffic and noise.

Betty: Its not only Beijing. Population increase is a big problem in many countries. Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world?

Tony: No. Can you tell me?

Betty: Over 250! That makes over 131.4 million births a year

Lingling: I can’t believe it!

Betty: The population of China is about 1.37 billion. Thats almost one fifth of the world’s population, that is, about 7 billion.

Tony: Hang on a minute! I’ll write that down too!

Betty: But in the future, Chinas population wont grow so fast, because families are getting smaller.

Lingling: How do you know all this?

Betty: I wrote my report yesterday!

Tony: Great, thanks! Now I can write my report!           

生词表

report报告;汇报

Population 人口

grow ( grew [ɡru:]) 增长、增大

huge  巨大的;庞大的

cause  引起;造成

problem 麻烦;问题

traffic 拥挤

increase 增大;增长

countries 问题

birth  出生

believe 相信

billion 十亿

fifth 第五;五分之一

hand on (口)稍等

future 将来

Unit 1中国的人口大约是13.7亿

贝蒂：你在做什么？

托尼：我正在为一篇叫《我们正在增长的人口》的报告准备笔记。

玲玲：哦，现在谈论这个问题正是地方！北京是一个人口众多的大型城市。这引发了很多问题，例如有太多的车辆和噪音。

贝蒂：不仅是北京（存在这种问题）。人口增长在许多国家都是一个大问题。你知道世界上每分钟有多少婴儿出生吗？

托尼：不知道。你能告诉我吗？

贝蒂：超过250个！那相当于一年有超过1.314亿的婴儿出生。

玲玲：我简直无法相信！

贝蒂：中国的人口大约是13.7亿。那几乎是世界人口约70亿的五分之一。

托尼：稍等！我也要把它记下来！

贝蒂：但是在将来，中国的人口将不会增长这么快，因为家庭规模正在变小。

玲玲：你怎么知道所有这些的？

贝蒂：昨天我写了我的报告！

托尼：太棒了，谢谢！现在我可以写我的报告了！