新标准初中英语九年级(下):UNIT1 World population

[00:05.65]Module 5 WORLD POPULATION
[00:10.03]UNIT 1  In the 1800s
[00:13.32]there were only one billion people.
[00:17.68]1 Listen and read. Then say.
[00:22.86]Did you find much information for your project?
[00:27.19]Yes, lots.It's all so interesting.
[00:31.13]I didn't know anything about world population
[00:34.19]before this project.
[00:36.18]What did you find out?
[00:38.28]Well, it's not good news really.
[00:41.82]I was reading¹ about how the population
[00:44.73]of the world is getting bigger and bigger.
[00:47.99]Why is that so bad?
[00:50.26]Because we don't have enough food
[00:52.81]and space for everybody!
[00:55.36]Did you know that by the year 2020
[00:59.29]there could be eight billion people
[01:01.63]in the world?What's the population now?
[01:05.62]There are over six billion now,
[01:08.52]but in the 1800s
[01:10.57]there were only one billion people!
[01:13.53]Wow! Yes, and I found this amazing website².
[01:19.39]You can actually see the population
[01:21.74]increasing on the screen!
[01:23.94]It was horrible³! Why!
[01:26.45]Well, it doesn't just tell you
[01:28.83]about the babies being⁴ born!
[01:31.74]It also shows you the people who are dying,too.
[01:36.05]They expect millions of people to die
[01:38.94]if we don't have enough food and water.
[01:42.12]Oh, that's awful! I know! Anyway,
[01:46.82]what about your project?
[01:49.00]Did you find all the information you need?
[01:52.01]I think so.
[01:53.20]I'm going to write it up this weekend.
[01:55.35]

1 reading   

n.阅读，知识，读物，表演，对法律条文的解释；adj.阅读的

参考例句：

• Children learn reading and writing at school.孩子们在学校学习阅读和写作。
• He finds pleasure in reading.他从阅读中得到乐趣。

2 website   

n.（互联网的）站点；网址

参考例句：

• Do you have the address of our website?你有我们的网址吗？
• A strange website turns up.出现了一个奇怪的网站。

3 horrible   

adj.可怕的，极可憎的，极可厌的

参考例句：

• This is a horrible monster.这是一个可怕的怪物。
• That is a horrible accident.那是一次可怕的事故。

4 being   

n.存在；生存；生命存在，生命，人， 本质；art.在，有，是

参考例句：

• Can you explain to me the purpose of being?你能对我解释一下存在的目的吗？
• What is the purpose of our being?我们生存的目的是什么？