“IF I HAD A GUITAR HERE, I WOULD SING YOU A SONG,” HE SAID.HE SAI...

27. “If I had a guitar here, I would sing you a song,” he said.

He said...

VI. Read and answer the following questions

The world’s population increased from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion by 1999, a doubling that

occurred over 40 years. The Census Bureau’s latest projections show that population growth will

continue in the 21

century, although more slowly. The world’s population is projected to grow from

6 billion in 1999 to 9 billion by 2042, an increase of 50 percent that will require 43 years.

The world’s population growth rate rose from about 1.5 percent per year from 1950 to 1951 to a

peak of over 2 percent in the early 1960s due to rising age at marriage as well as increasing

availability and use of effective birth-control methods. Note that changes in population growth have

not always been steady. A dip in the growth rate from 1959- 1960, for instance, was due to the Great

leap Forward in Chin A. During that time, both natural disasters and decreased agricultural

output in the wake of massive social reorganization caused China’s death rate to rise sharply and its

fertility rate to fall by almost half.