初中时候的英语课本里有篇讲环境问题的课文,结尾大意是说如果我们每个人怎样怎样,我们的世界会变得更加美好.原文具体是什么?人教版的,不是新的那种课本.封面好像是有个地球,前面有

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初中时候的英语课本里有篇讲环境问题的课文,结尾大意是说 如果我们每个人怎样怎样,我们的世界会变得更加美好.原文具体是什么?人教版的,不是新的那种课本.封面好像是有个地球,前面有好几个小孩

Answer 1

STANDING ROOM ONLY
只有立足之地
Look at your watch for just one minute.During that time,the population
看你的表,只看一分钟.在那段时间里,世界上的人口
of the world increased by 259.Perhaps you think that isn't much.However,
增加了259.或许你认为这个数字并不大,然而,
during the next hour,over 15,540 more babies will be born on the earth.
在随后的一个小时里,15,540多个新生儿将在地球上出生.
So it goes on,hour after hour.In one day,people have to produce food
全球人口就这样一小时一小时地不断继续增加.每一天,人们便不
for over 370,000 more mouths.Multiply this by 365.Just think how many
得不为增加的37万多张嘴生产食物.这个数字乘以365,想想看吧,在
more there will be in one year!What will happen in a hundred years?
一年时间里将又会增加多少人!100年以后情况又将如何呢?
The increasing population may be the greatest challenge of the world to-
持续增长的人口问题可能是对当今世界最大的挑战.
day.The world's population is growing faster and faster.Two thousand years
世界人口增长越来越快.2,000年以前,
ago,there were only 250 million people on the earth.Four hundred years ago,
地球上只有2?5亿人.400年以前
the number was over 500 million.At the beginning of the twentieth century,
人口数量为5亿人.在20世纪初,
the world's population was about 1.7 billion.In 1970,this number was over 3.6
世界人口大约17亿.1970年这个数字达到
billion.In 1990,it reached more than five billion.Now at the beginning of
36亿多.1990年超过50亿.现在到了21世纪初,
the 21st century the world's population has passed six billion.People say that
世界人口已超过60亿.人们预计
by the year 2010,it may be seven billion.That means that in about 600 years,
到2010年,全球人口将达到70亿.这意味着大约600年后,
there will be standing room only on the earth.Each person will have one half
地球上只有站立的空间.每个人仅有
to one square metre of space to live in.There will be hardly enough space for
0-5至1平方米的居住空间.几乎没有其他的空间能
anybody else.
容纳任何其他的人了.