The Problem of Human Population
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition based on the following graph showing the growth of the world's population. The opening sentenee is given and you are required to develop it into a full composition. Your part of writing should be no less than 120 words. Some useful words and phrases are provided, but you do not have to include all of them.
Graph showing the growth of the world's population
(Suggeated toords, and phrases: birth conlrol, death rate. population explosion, food shortage)
The Problem of Human Population
people on earth. But today on the same planet we have about more than 5,000 million people, a figure 13 times as big as that of 1,000 years ago. We can see from the above graph that human population had been incrcasing almost all the time. The Industrial and Agriealtmal Revolution which began in 1650 contributcd a little to the growth of population. Then the emergence of modern medicine in 1850, which greatly Iowered the deathrate, caused the popolatlon to increase rapidly.
During the past half ccntury, the world's population has been increasing at a fantastie speed, and we are now faced with the so-called problem of "population explosion". With more and more people coming into this world, human beings are now confronted with the danger of food shortages because the land on which man can grow grains remains the same. If not controlled,the population of the world will amount to 7,000 million in the year 2,000.
To solve the problem of the "population explosion", or in other words, to save man kind, it is extremely necessary to practise birth control in some areas of the world.
人口問題
據估計1000年前地球上的人口不到4億。但足，如今在同一個地球上約有50多億人口，這是1000年前的13倍。從上圖可以看出，人口幾乎年年都在成長。1650年開始的工農業革命對人口成長起了推動作用。接著在1850年出現的現代醫學，大大降低了死亡率，使人口急劇成長。
在過去的半個世紀，世界人口成長突飛猛進，我們現在正面臨著所謂“人口爆炸”問題。隨著越來越多人來到這個世界，人類現在正面臨著食品不足的問題，因為人類種庄稼的土地仍然是那麽多。如果不加控製，世界人口到2000年將增加到70億。
為了解決“人口爆炸”問題，或者說為了拯救人類，極有必要在世界的一些地區實行人口控製。