2025届高三英语二轮专题复习：2024年11月13日 China Daily时政类语篇型填空专项训练（含答案）（国家统计局：人口自然增长率滞后）

2024年11月13日 China Daily时政类语篇型填空专项训练（国家统计局：人口自然增长率滞后） Natural population growth rate lagging, NBS says Passage 1 Amid efforts 1. (boost) the nation's birth rate, the China Statistical Yearbook 2024 recently 2. (release) by the National Bureau of Statistics 3. (say) only eight provincial-level regions recorded a positive natural population growth rate last year. According to the yearbook, 4. top three regions 5. terms of natural population growth rates last year 6. (be) the Xizang autonomous region, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and Guizhou province, while those in Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces 7. (shift) from positive to negative. China's total population 8. (drop) for the second consecutive year in 2023, 9. (decrease) by roughly 2.08 million to 1.41 billion. The total number of newborns in the country for the year was 9.02 million, 10. a birth rate of 6.39 per thousand, it said. Passage 2 The five provincial-level regions with the lowest birth rates last year were Tianjin, Shanghai and the provinces 1. Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. 2. them, Heilongjiang had the lowest birth rate at only 2.92 per thousand. The number of permanent residents in Heilongjiang has 3. (decline) since 2011, from 38.33 million in 2010 to 30.62 million last year, according to data released by the provincial statistics bureau. Population experts said that Heilongjiang's 4. (continue) population decline was largely attributed 5. a 6. (combine) of factors such as low birth rates, 7. accelerated aging trend and population outflow. Nationwide, the country's current total fertility rate — the average number of babies born to each woman of reproductive age — has 8. (fall) to a 9. (concern) level of around 1, according to the 10. (late) government statistics. Passage 3 "It is a globally common challenge 1. (raise) fertility rates, and it's not something that can 2. (achieve) overnight," said Yuan Xin, a professor at Nankai University and vice-president of the China Population Association, adding that the process is long and 3. (come) with 4. (extreme) high costs. The nation's total fertility rate fell 5. the replacement level of 2.1 to 2.08 in 1992, and the low fertility trend 6. (continue) over the past three decades, he noted. Yuan said it's good 7. (see) that the central and local governments have rolled 8. a slew of pro-birth measures 9. recent years, from tax exemptions and maternity subsidies 10. longer maternity leave for women and paternity leave for their spouses. Passage 4 He suggested 1. (expand) the 2. (cover) of maternity subsidies nationwide and increasing the amount, especially 3. families with first and second newborns. Meanwhile, comprehensive efforts should 4. (make) to build a more childbirth-friendly 5. (social) through a multipronged approach. Notably, Guangdong province registered just over 1 million newborns last year, the 6. (high) in the country for the sixth consecutive year, according to the yearbook. In ... ...