Look at your watch
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just one minute. During that time, 174 babies were born in
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world. Maybe you think that isn"t
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. During the next hour, our 10,440 more babies will
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born on the earth.
So it goes
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, hour
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hour, what will
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in a hundred years
The population (人口) problem may be the
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one of the world today. The world"s population is growing faster and
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. A UN report says that the world population will be over six billion (60亿) by the end of the twentieth (第二十) century (世纪,百年). That means that in about 600 years, there will be standing room only on the earth. There will not be
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space for anybody else. A. after B. before C. from