SOME SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO __________8...

11. Some scientists say that there are enough resources to __________8 billion people.

A. raise B. provide C. distribute D. support

Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each question.

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 China. 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. [Census Bureau: cục

điều tra dân số; dip: go down and then up again; Great leap Forward in China (1958-1961); in the wake

of: coming after or following sth; fertility rate: birth rate]