外研版英语八年级上册 Module 9 早读手册

Module 9  Population

Unit 1

Thirteen countries in the world have a huge population of over one hundred million. China has the largest population with about 1.4 billion. That’s almost one fifth of the world’s population.

The world’s population is growing faster and faster. How many babies are born every year in the world? Oh, hang on for a while. Let me have a look at my notes that I prepared last week. A report said that there are more than 131.4 million births every year in the world.

Population increase can cause lots of problems, such as the lack(缺乏) of food and fresh water, too much noise, too much traffic and less living space and so on. So some countries in the world are doing much work to control(控制) population growth. What’s your idea? Can you give us a report?

1. noise  n.噪音；杂音

2. prepare  v.  准备；预备

3. notes  n. (pl.) 笔记；随笔

4. report  n. 报告；汇报

5. grow  v. (grew) 增长;增大

6. huge  adj.  巨大的；庞大的

7. cause  v. 造成; 引起

【新义:n. 原因；起因】

8. problem  n.麻烦；问题

9. increase  n. 增大；增长  v. 增大；增长

10. birth  n.出生

11. billion  num. 十亿

12. fifth  num. 第五；五分之一

1. noise  n. 噪音；杂音 → noisy adj. 吵闹的

2. prepare v.  准备；预备 → preparation  n. 准备

3. grow v. 增长;增大  过去式 grew

4. five num. 五 → fifth num. 第五；五分之一

1. prepare for为……做准备

2. such as 例如

3. be born出生

4. population increase人口增长

5. one fifth五分之一

6. hang on ［口］稍等

7. write down写下；记下

8. at the end of在……的末尾

9. wait for等待

10. more than超过

1. 我正在为一个题为“我们日益增长的人口”的报告准备一些笔记。

I’m preparing some notes for a report called “Our growing population”.

2. 北京是一座人口众多的大城市。这导致了许多问题，例如交通拥堵和噪音过多。

Beijing is a huge city with a large population. That causes a lot

of problems, such as too much traffic and noise.

3. 中国的人口大约为13.7亿。

The population of China is about 1.37 billion.