Listen and read.

听一听，读一读。

Betty: What are you doing?

贝蒂：你在干什么呢？

Tony: I'm preparing some notes for a report called "Our growing population" .

托尼：我正在为一篇题为《日益增长的人口》的报告准备笔记。

Lingling: Well, we're in the right place to talk about that! Beijing is a huge city with alarge population.That causes a lot of problems, such as too much traffic and noise.

玲玲：哦，现在谈论这个问题正是时候！北京就是一个人口众多的大型城市。这引发了很多问题，例如交通拥堵和噪音过多。

Betty: It's not only Beijing. Population increase is a big problem in many countries. Do you know how many babies are born every minute in the world?

贝蒂：不仅北京这样。人口增长在许多国家都是一个大问题。你知道世界上每分钟有多少个婴儿出生吗？

Tony: No. Can you tell me?

托尼：不知道。你能告诉我吗？

Betty: Over 250! That makes over 131.4 million births a year.

贝蒂：250多个！那相当于一年有超过1.314亿个婴儿出生。

Lingling: I can't believe it!

玲玲：真不敢相信！

Betty: The population of China is about 1.37 billion. That's almost one fifth of the world's population, that is, about 7 billion.

贝蒂：中国的人口大约为13.7亿。那几乎是世界人口，也就是约70亿，的五分之一。

Tony:Hang on a minute! I'll write that down too!

托尼：稍等！我也要把这点记下来！

Betty: But in the future, China's population won't grow so fast, because families are getting smaller.

贝蒂：但是，在将来中国的人口将不会增长这么快，因为家庭规模正在缩小。

Lingling: How do you know all this?

玲玲：你怎么知道所有这些的？

Betty:lwrote my reportyesterday!

贝蒂：昨天我写了报告！

Tony: Great, thanks! Now I can write my report!

托尼：太好了，谢谢！现在我可以写我的报告了！

Everyday English

日常英语

· I can't believe it!

真不敢相信！

· Hang on a minute!

稍等！

· Great!

太好了！

Now complete the notes.

现在完成笔记。

Babies born every minute in the world:

世界上每分钟出生的婴儿：

Babies born every year in the world:

世界上每年出生的婴儿：

Population of China:

中国的人口：

Population of the world:

世界的人口：