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资料题:In this passage, when did the first significant demographic change occur( )。

发布时间:2020-12-31

A.Three to four centuries ago

B.Ten-thousand years ago

C.At a time when steamed engine was invented

D.At a time when human beings began to use tools

参考资料

The growth of population during the past few centuries, is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom.On the contrary, demographic(人口统计) history offers .evidence that population growth has not been a all constant.According to paleoecologist(古生态学家)Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous change.The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B.C.,followed the innovationsof tool-making and tool-using.But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited,the rate of: world population growth fell and became almost stable.The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep bends, plow and plant the earth.Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.These two episodes suggest the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when,or if, technology begins to yield fewer innovations.0f course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end.Either way,contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth-population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.

试卷相关题目

  • 1How many significant demographic changes ever occurred in the past million years( )。

    A.One

    B.Two

    C.Three

    D.None

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  • 2According to the passage, which statement is considered INCORRECT( )。

    A.Human population expands atan exponential rate

    B.Population growth has shown fluctuations in demographic history

    C.Population growth can not be regarded as a social failure

    D.Increase in population is related to productivity

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  • 3What did human being learn to do when the second demographic change took place( )。

    A.To use stone

    B.To plant the earth

    C.To build aircraft

    D.To drive automobiles

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  • 4What is found to have a close relationship with rapid increase in population( )。

    A.War between two countries

    B.Ways discovered to increase productivity

    C.Migration from one continent to another continent

    D.A new religion beginning to be accepted by people

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