In 1971 there were about 3,700 million people in the world. If the population were (21) evenly over the earth’ s surface there would be about 50 people to the square mile; but there are vast areas of desert and mountain and tropical forest (22) are uninhabited, (23) at the other (24) , in the great cities millions may live within a few square miles. (25) of the world’ s population is concentrated on only a small (26) of the earth’ s land surface, in the rich valleys and (27) plains, because people up to the present time have (28) to congregate in place where the climate and soil make it easy to grow food and obtain shelter. A (29) world population and the discoveries of science (30) this pattern of distribution in the future. As men slowly learn to master diseases, control floods, prevent famines, and stop wars, fewer people die every year; and in (31) the population of the world is steadily (32) . When numbers (33) , the extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought (34) cultivation, or land already (35) , made to yield larger crops. In some areas the accessible land is largely so intensively cultivated (36) it will be difficult to make it (37) more food. in some areas the population is so dense that the land is divided into. units (38) tiny to allow for much improvement in farming methods. (39) a large part of this farming population drawn (40) into industrial occupations, the land might be farmed much more productively by modern methods.
A. Was
B. Were
C. Only
D. If
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A. 对
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Part A For questions 1-5, you will hear a passage. Listen and answer the questions with the information you’ ve heard. Write not more than 3 words in each blank. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the questions below. There are two falls: the Canadian or Horseshoe Falls, and ______ .
In 1971 there were about 3,700 million people in the world. If the population were (21) evenly over the earth’ s surface there would be about 50 people to the square mile; but there are vast areas of desert and mountain and tropical forest (22) are uninhabited, (23) at the other (24) , in the great cities millions may live within a few square miles. (25) of the world’ s population is concentrated on only a small (26) of the earth’ s land surface, in the rich valleys and (27) plains, because people up to the present time have (28) to congregate in place where the climate and soil make it easy to grow food and obtain shelter. A (29) world population and the discoveries of science (30) this pattern of distribution in the future. As men slowly learn to master diseases, control floods, prevent famines, and stop wars, fewer people die every year; and in (31) the population of the world is steadily (32) . When numbers (33) , the extra mouths must be fed. New lands must be brought (34) cultivation, or land already (35) , made to yield larger crops. In some areas the accessible land is largely so intensively cultivated (36) it will be difficult to make it (37) more food. in some areas the population is so dense that the land is divided into. units (38) tiny to allow for much improvement in farming methods. (39) a large part of this farming population drawn (40) into industrial occupations, the land might be farmed much more productively by modern methods.
A. abundant
B. fertile
C. plenty
D. numerous
Passage 2 When Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864, there were many conflicting theories about the nature of the Earth’ s interior. Some geologists thought that it contained a highly compressed ball of incandescent gas, while others suspected that it consisted of separate shells, each made of different materials. Today well over a century later, there is little direct evidence of what lies beneath our feet. Most of our knowledge of the Earth’ s interior comes not from mines or boreholes, but from the study of seismic waves--powerful pulses of energy released by earthquakes. The way that seismic waves travel shows that the Earth’ s interior is far from uniform. The continents and the seabed are formed by the crust--a thin sphere of relatively light, solid rock. Beneath the crust lies the mantle, a different layer that extends approximately halfway to the Earth’ s center. There the rock is the subject of a battle between increasing heat and growing pressure. In its high levels, the mantle is relatively cool; at greater depths, high temperatures make the rock behave more like a liquid than a solid. Deeper still, the pressure is even more intense, preventing the rock from melting in spite of a higher temperature. Beyond a depth of around 2,900 kilometers, a great change takes place and the mantle gives way to the core. Some seismic waves cannot pass through the core and others are bent by it. From this and other evidence, geologists conclude that the outer core is probably liquid, with a solid center. It is almost certainly made of iron, mixed with smaller amounts of other elements such as nickel. The conditions in the Earth’ s core make it a far more alien world than space. Its solid iron heart is subjected to unimaginable pressure and has a temperature of about 9,000°F. Although scientists can speculate about its nature, neither humans nor machines will ever be able to visit it. What is today’ s richest source of information about the Earth’ s interior for geologists
A. Journey to the Center of the Earth, the book written by Jules Verne.
B. Conflicting theories about the nature of the Earth’ s interior.
C. The study of Seismic waves--powerful pulses of energy released by earthquakes.
D. The theories that there is little direct evidence of what lies beneath our feet.