时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Statistics 1 New Zealand collects population numbers every year from 1st October to the end of September. The latest figures show that New Zealand’s population on September 30th was 4,414,400. This is equal to 0.06% of the world’s population. We have 33,500 more people than a year ago which is a growth rate of 0.8%. This is lower than usual, perhaps because more Christchurch people left New Zealand after the earthquakes.


  Ten years ago our population was 3,895,400. The average growth for the last 10 years was 1.3% which is similar to the rest of the world. However, our median age is 36.8 whereas 2 the median age for the rest of the world is 29.2 (UN figures).
  Although there are slightly more males than females 4 born in the rest of the world (102 males for every 100 females), in New Zealand 97 males are born for every 100 females. Nobody knows why. However, in the age range 20 to 24, there are 107 males for every 100 females. In the age range 25 to 29, the numbers of male and female 3 are nearly the same. Females outnumber males in their 30s. There are only 92 males to every 100 females aged 5 30 to 39 living in New Zealand.
  The reason for this could be the large numbers of New Zealanders who live overseas. There are possibly 1 million New Zealanders living overseas, in Australia, the UK, the US, Canada and some other countries. It is possible that more men than women have jobs overseas. It is very hard to collect figures on the numbers living overseas.
  New Zealanders love to travel. About 80,000 New Zealanders travel overseas on short trips every year and another 45,000 stay overseas for a longer time.
  Vocabulary
  Some useful words when talking about statistics: population numbers, figures, growth rate, average, median, slightly more than, nearly the same, whereas, age range, outnumber
  Listen
  There are many numbers in this text. Write them down then check with the text.
  Questions
  1.Many women choose not to get married and have a family when they are in their 20s. What is the problem for them in their 30s?
  2.Can you explain why there are more men in their early 20s but fewer men in their 30s?
  3.What are some of the problems for a country with a high median age?

n.统计,统计数字,统计学
  • We have statistics for the last year.我们有去年的统计资料。
  • Statistics is taught in many colleges.许多大学都教授统计学。
conj.而,却,反之
  • They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子,而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
adj.雌的,女(性)的;n.雌性的动物,女子
  • We only employ female workers.我们只雇用女工。
  • The animal in the picture was a female elephant.照片上的动物是头母象。
n.雌性动物( female的名词复数 );女人
  • The male birds are more colourful than the females. 这种鸟雄性比雌性更加色彩艳丽。
  • The males in the herd protect the females and the young. 兽中的雄性动物保护雌性动物和幼崽。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
学英语单词
alveolar-capillary membrane
atomic thermo-capacity
Baiso
bandlimitedness
base circle of cam contour
be on pins and needles
binder soil
blogaholics
bodgies
bottlenose dolphin
brubacher
Bundled service
cadmium compound
cavity field
circle segment
classical wave equation
Clinoril
conditionally exempt
crossotarsus simplex
damnworthy
data quality control monitor
demonstrative determiners
detrusion
Diplacrum caricinum
dis tressed
disodium EDTA
docking bridge
Doma Peaks
draft filly
elmina
empty one's plate
false incontinence
field road
firearm manoeuvre
flash desorption spectroscopy
fllium
ftp explorer
full buoyance
gatophobia
glymph
got up to kill
halpens
having it off
hop the perch
industrial solvent
klas
largest-capacity
late in life
lay emphasis up on
leonne
lime sower
limiting kinetic current
lindernia pyxidaria l.
lubrication oil sump
man load chart
Marienborn
MF
micrometer measuring rod
middle jiao
network army
nitrosoethylurethane
no-scope
odd half-spin representation
orchard cultivator
palisadian disturbance
perchlorovinyl resin
Perdices, Sa.de
Peverson
polyphyll
printer/plotter
recremental
return wall
rowlock bolster
rubber hydrochloride
Russianism
saxagliptin
sea connection
self-cleaning tank
sequence control of boiler ignition system
Siwalik Range/Hills
Slovomir
sodium silicate concrete
somatostatinomas
song of songs (hebrew)
spiny-stemmed
steering propeller
stepwise impulse
the yakuza
thought provoking
Tungufjall
two-level parametric amplifier
typhoid complicated with intestinal perforation
unboastfulness
under-glaze
unsinister
upper ideal
uriniferous tubulus (or renal tubules)
vertico-podalic diameter
Videhan
Vujicic
wrist fracture
zero gear