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It will come as no surprise that the earth is going to be a much more crowded place in the next century. From a global populatio
It will come as no surprise that the earth is going to be a much more crowded place in the next century. From a global populatio
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2010-09-10
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It will come as no surprise that the earth is going to be a much more crowded place in the next century. From a global population of about 5. 4 billion today, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities says we’ II see a rise to 8. 2 billion people in 2025. The U. N. expects the total population to stabilize (稳定) at Il. 6 billion sometime later in the 2000 s.
More than ninety percent of the population growth will occur in developing countries. Eighteen of the world’ s twenty largest cities will be in these lands as the number of urban-dwellers (城市居民) swells from roughly two billion to 5.1 billion. The Unites States and Europe, which in 1950 accounted for twenty-two percent of the world’ s population, will be home to less than nine percent of its people in 2025. By contrast, Africa’ s share of the total will climb from nine percent in 1950 to nearly twenty percent by 2015. Ethiopia should double in size to almost 100 million people. In about the same time period, India will overtake China as the world’ s most populous country.
For the United States, the big news won’ t be an abundance of new faces; experts predict the country will grow from its present 250 million population and stabilize at about 350 million sometime before the middle of the 21st century. The important changes will be in American ethnic (种族的) makeup. Twenty years from now, the United States white, non-Hispanic majority will peak at 195 million, and then may decline in numbers. Asian-Americans will become an increasingly important minority, while African-Americans--whose population growth rate is slowing dramatically--will become the second-largest minority behind Hispanics, a half million of whom are now thought to be emigrating to the United States legally and otherwise, each year.
What is the meaning of "For the United States, the big news won’ t be an abundance of new faces" in Line 1 of Paragraph 3 ?
选项
A、People in the US won’t be surprised at any new faces.
B、There won’ t be any news in the eye of the US people.
C、People in the US will become known to one another.
D、There won’t be a large growth in the US population.
答案
D
解析
语义题。根据下文对美国人口情况的介绍可知其总体上不会大幅增加,而只是在种族构成上有所变化,故答案为D。
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