新托福口语练习材料-关于是否控制人口的讨论(1)2

新托福口语练习材料-关于是否控制人口的

讨论(1)2

I. Listen

Listen to the text with the help of the following notes.

1. A crowded slum district : 一个拥挤贫民窟地区。

2. The temperature was well over 100: 气温高100度（华氏）以上。

3. People holding on to the sides of buses: 人们吊挂在公共汽车的两侧。

4. Since that night, I've known what overpopulation feels like: 从那天晚上起，我便知道人口过剩是什么滋味了。

5. it is only when people's living standards begin to rise that birth rates begin to fall: 只有在人们生活水平提高时，出生率才会开始下降。

6. people's incomes are so low they have nothing to spare for savings: 人们的收如此之低以致于他们无钱存起来。

7. people look to their children to provide them with security in their old age: 人们指望在年老时他们的孩子给他们提供生活保障。

8. poor people in a developing country will need to see clear signs of much better conditions ahead before they will think of having smaller families:发展中国家的穷人需要看到生活明显改善的前景时才会考虑组建小型的家庭。

9. depend on a very much wider acceptance of family planning: 取决于（人们对计划生育政策更为广泛的接受。

10. basic changes in attitudes: 在观念上的根本变化。

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