Death Control
A very important world problem -- in fact, ! am inclined to say（傾向認為） it is the most important of all the 'great world problems which face us at the present time -- is the rapidly increasing pressure of'population on land and on land resources（土地資源）
___ (1).___ By 2000 A.D., unless something desperate happens（除非采取緊急行動）, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of the earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.
Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? __(2)__ You have heard
of Birth Control? __(3)__ Death Control recognizes（承認）the work of the doctors and thenurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago,would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to do6. Squalidconditions（骯臟的環(huán)境）, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease anddirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early8 and ensure healthier school children.外語學習網
Scientists are at work stamping out malaria（消滅瘧疾） and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modem hospital. __(4)__ We used to thinkseventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normalage for human beings.__(5)__.
練習：
A People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so thepopulation of the world is shooting up~~.
B Death Control is something rather different.
C It is really due to4 the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to becalled Death Control.
D This enormous increase of population will create immense problems.
E The standard of living may be improved through death control.
F Medical care helps to keep people alive longer.
練習答案1D 2C 3B 4F 5A