新标准初中英语九年级(下):UNIT2 Overpopulation

[00:02.54]Module 5 WORLD POPULATION
[00:07.60]Unit 2 The population on the Earth
[00:11.31]is growing very fast.
[00:14.77]Listen and read.
[00:18.45]Overpopulation
[00:21.07]Have you notice that there are more
[00:23.34]people in towns and cities these days?
[00:26.96]Are there more children in your school
[00:29.61]or in your hometown?
[00:31.95]Maybe you haven't noticed it,
[00:34.69]but the population on the Earth
[00:36.35]is growing very fast.
[00:38.60]In fact, it is growing too fast!
[00:42.33]When your grandparents were children,
[00:45.10]there were only about 2.5 billion people
[00:48.97]on this planet¹.
[00:50.90]Now, there are over six billion,
[00:54.38]Every year, the population increases
[00:57.56]by another 80 million.If this continues,
[01:01.59]by the time you are grandparents,
[01:04.83]there will be over 14 billion people
[01:07.64]in the world!This increase in population makes
[01:12.27]all the problems in the world much worse.
[01:16.38]This is because everything is connected².
[01:19.63]The more people there are,
[01:21.56]the more resources³ we need.
[01:22.63]

1 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

2 connected   

adj.连接的，有关系的，有联系的；连贯的；有血统[婚姻]关系的v.连接( connect的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• The towns are connected by train and bus services. 这些城镇由火车和公共汽车连接起来。
• This leads to the inescapable conclusion that the two things are connected. 这就必然得出一个结论：这两件事互有关联。

3 resources   

n.勇气；才智；谋略；有助于实现目标的东西；资源( resource的名词复数 )；[复数]物力；办法；来源

参考例句：

• The world's resources are rapidly diminishing. 世界资源正在迅速减少。
• a policy to equalize the distribution of resources throughout the country 使资源在全国分布均衡的政策