外研版八年级上册Module9 Population模块话题阅读理解专项(原卷版+解析版)

中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 外研版八年级上册Module9 Population模块话题阅读理解专项 一、完形填空 Look at your watch for just one minute. During that time, the population of the world increased by over 250. During the next hour, over fifteen thousand more 1 will be born. It 2 on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to 3 food for over 370,000 more mouths. Population increase is a big problem in many 4 , such as China and India. The world’s population is 5 faster and faster. It is estimated(估计) that the world’s population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was 123 years 6 it reached two billion in 1927, but it 7 only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960. After that, the world’s population reached four billion in 1974, 8 billion in 1987 and six billion in 1999. The United Nations decided to 9 the “Day of 5 Billion” on July 11, 1987, and the “Day of 6 Billion” on October 12, 1999. On October 31, 2011, the world’s population reached 7 billion. 10 the population keeps increasing like this, the world’s population will reach eight billion by 2026. That means that in about 600 years, there will be standing room only on the earth(地球). 1．A．pupils B．boys C．girls D．babies 2．A．goes B．lives C．jumps D．gets 3．A．describe B．produce C．feed D．change 4．A．cities B．villages C．countries D．universities 5．A．growing B．falling C．working D．beating 6．A．about B．of C．with D．before 7．A．cost B．spent C．paid D．took 8．A．four B．five C．six D．seven 9．A．miss B．celebrate C．protect D．push 10．A．But B．Or C．If D．Till 二、阅读理解 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, 60,000 people live in every square mile! What is true is that the world’s population doesn’t stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate (比例). That’s in part because in each generation (代) there are more people who then have children than in the last generation. Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1920s, the world’s population was under 2.5 billion (十亿). 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 whole lot of people! Soon the world’s population will probably reach 7 billion. Some people worry about that! But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on the earth equals (相当于) too many people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources (资源) the world needs to feed, house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and use the earth’s resources. 11．From the first paragraph (段落) we can know that _____. A．Montana is too crowded B．Macao is too crowded C．the world is t ... ...