The village about two thousand.
is the population of Henan Province?
The room was small hold so many people.
you at the moment?
babies are born every day in the city?
A. Do you know what the world's population today is? B. I'm reading a book about the world's population. C. What's the population? D. It's too terrible. E. It was no more than 2 billion. F. I think we must do something to control the population. G.I don't believe it. |
A: What are you doing?
B:
A: Great! Can you tell me something about the book?
B: Certainly! It says 1,000 years ago, the world's population was very small.
A: Really?
B: Yes, but during the last three or four hundred years, the world's population has grown very quickly. Today, it is growing faster than ever before.
A: Sorry, I don't know.
B: It's more than 6 billion.
A: It's so large.
B: Yes. If we don't control the population, there will not be enough space even to stand in on the earth in 600 years.
A:
It seems that the cities in the future will have to change. Because the world's population 1, there will be 2 people in the cities tomorrow. It may be 3 for any family to live in a house with land around it. There 4 enough space for them. 5 to solve this problem may be the skyscraper city (摩天城).
The highest building in the world today is in Dubai. It's about 509 metres high. The skyscraper cities in the future will be many times 6.
In a skyscraper city about 250,000 people will live. Nearly a million people can 7 in four of these great buildings. Each skyscraper city will have four towns in it and each town will have ten villages. They will live, work and 8 their free time in them. They won't need to leave the city 9 they want to. They will be able to move about in the city by transport controlled 10 computers. Let's imagine how the life will be then!
