POPULATION GROWTH RATES VARY AMONG REGIONS AND EVEN AMONG COUNTRIES...

2. Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the same region.A. fluctuate B. restrain C. stay unchanged D. remain unstableII. Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.Many people believe that watching television has resulted in lower reading standards in schools. However, thelink between television and printed books is not as simple as that. In many cases, television actually encouragespeople to read for example, when a book is turned into a TV series, its sales often go up.One study of this link examined six-year-old children who were viewing a special series of 15-minuteprogrammes at school. The series was designed to encourage the love of books, as well as to develop the basicmechanical skills of reading. Each programme is an animated film of a children's book. The story is read aloud whilecertain key phrases from the book appear on the screen, beneath the picture. Whenever a word is read, it is alsohighlighted on the TV screen.One finding was that watching these programmes was very important to the children. If anything prevented themfrom seeing a programme, they were very disappointed. What's more, they wanted to read the books which thedifferent parts of the series were based on.The programmes also gave the children more confidence when looking these books. As a result of their familiaritywith the stories, they would sit in pairs and read the stories aloud to each other. On each occasion, the children showedgreat sympathy when discussing a character in a book because they themselves had been moved when watching thecharacter on TV.