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Unit 3
Ⅰ.根据句意及汉语提示完成单词
1.Can you turn down the music?There is too much __noise__(噪声).
2.According to the latest report,there are about 0.33 __billion__(十亿)people in the US.
3.It is much greener to go to work by __public__(公共的)transport than to drive a car.
4.The restaurant tries to provide the best __service__(服务)at the lowest price.
5.The boy wants to become a doctor to serve for the __local__(本地的)people.
Ⅱ.用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空
1.The park is only five__minutes'__(minute)walk away from downtown.
2.In Green Hospital,one __fourth__(four)of the doctors are women.
3.Since the air is seriously polluted,we'd better work harder __to__stop__(stop)it.
4.The harder you study,the __fewer__(few)mistakes you will make.
5.—Which city has the__largest__(large)population,Shanghai,Xiamen or Beijing?
—Shanghai,of course.
6.—How many __pupils__(pupil)are there in the school?
—Two thousand.
7.The number of the students in this school __increased__(increase)a lot last year.
8.To welcome the New Year,the students are busy __preparing__(prepare)the party at this moment.
Ⅲ.阅读理解
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Is the world too crowded?Well,that's a hard question to answer.It's all a matter of perspective(视角).In Montana,you might drive for a mile in any direction and not see another human being.In Macao,20,000 people live in every square kilometre!
What is true is that the world's population doesn't stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate(速率).That's in part because in each generation(一代),there are more people who like to have children than in the last generation.
Five hundred years ago,the population of the world was about 460 million.In 1900,the world's population was under 2 billion.Right now it is doubling every 40 years.That means,if this rate of growth continues,when you are a parent,there will be twice as many people on the earth as there are now.Wow!Now that's a lot of people!Soon the world's population will probably go up to 10 billion.Some people worry about that!But there is a lot of disa