时间:2018-12-10 作者:英语课 分类:初中英语人教版初三


英语课

[00:45.79]STANDING 1 ROOM ONLY

[00:50.34]Look at your watch for just one minute.

[00:54.80]During that time,the population of the world increased by 259.

[01:05.54]Perhaps you think that isn't much.

[01:10.87]However,during the next hour,over 15,540 more babies will be born on the earth.

[02:30.44]So it goes on,hour after hour.

[02:37.52]In one day,people have to produce food for over 370,000 more mouths.

[02:46.27]Multiply this by 365.

[02:52.90]Just think how many more there will be in one year!

[02:58.83]What will happen in a hundred years?

[04:19.42]The increasing population may be the greatest challenge 2 of the world today.

[04:26.27]The world's population is growing faster and faster.

[04:31.44]Two thousand years ago,there were only 250 million people on the earth.

[06:05.19]Four hundred years ago,the number was over 500 million.

[06:21.44]At the beginning of the twentieth century,

[06:26.80]the world's population was about 1.7 billion.

[06:51.66]In 1970,this number was over 3.6 billion.

[07:10.92]In 1990,it reached more than five billion.

[07:18.36]Now at the beginning of the 21st century

[07:27.01]the world's population has passed six billion.

[07:31.97]People say that by the year 2010,it may be seven billion.

[08:27.14]That means 3 that in about 600 years,there will be standing room only on the earth.

[08:38.09]Each person will have one half to one square metre of space to live in



1 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 challenge
n.挑战;v.向...挑战
  • The job doesn't really challenge him.这项工作不能真正地考验他。
  • She looked at me with challenge.她带着挑战的目光看着我。
3 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
学英语单词
aborsement
acer pilosum maxim.
Adalate
adjustment cost
aesthetic appreciation of map
angle of back of tooth
appletalk - link access protocol
as reason was
aseptic package
automatic moving-target indicator
benchmarkers
biochemical reactor
biostrategy
blesome
blind tigers
Blue Angels
body pigment
brushmarks
cancel slow down and shutdown
ceridians
channel mode
climbing fibers
coal unloader
compressed air type sprayer
coronary suture (coronal suture)
currency policy
DC shunt generator
defaste
dentode
Distylium
double annular tuyere
effoliate
electric signal
escape death by a hairbreadth
fetchet
footes
fustiness
gemmer
give good returns
golongan
gotten out of repair
Guiscard
hair growth
Harkin's rule
hhok
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
hot hubbing
hyperdescent
hypochrome
hypopituitarisms
insulated static wire
inward-moving
Jindyworobak
Kuǔp
Mareb Shet'
marsellus
mental maladjustment
mireh
Molykote
multi-tube evaporator
multilist software
Namam-ni
nevadite
nomen oblitum
Nomersan
non-combustible materials
non-direction
organo chlorine insecticide
pathwayz
pre-emphasis circuit
QBP
rascalries
reclaim
red spiders
residual gas atom
rogin
rossetter
roughing down mill
ruffle someone's feathers
saltatoryreplication
Saxifraga saxatilis
scarin'
semi automatic seal
sick to death of
sod-off
soft-shoest
spiraperturate
SPL (sound pressure level)
sporocarps
steam supply valve
suche
superteachers
switch jumper
takamotoes
Terence Rattigan
tip-curved forceps
trailer type sprayer
Vogit loudspeaker
vulnerability assessment intrusion detector
wackyparse
win on points