This being so,one must accept the fact that for some years to come,no policy will be capable of stopping or reversing the present migratory trends from the rural areas to the cities in the Third World.In Africa,the urban population will reach 330 million people by the end of the century as against 150 million in 1985.
The munber of people living in shanty towns will inevitably increase in spite of the efforts to improve housing conditions.Africa alone needs to build 12 million housing units between now and the year 2000 to meet its most basic needs.In an ILO study,M.S.V.Sethuraman estimates that in 70 Third World cities the proportion of people living in shanty towns varies from 15% to 70% and that about US $ 116 billion are required to give minimum comfort to these people by the turn of the century--less than US $ 10 billion per year.
The world population is growing at a rate of about 90 million people per year,with the Third World accounting for 80 million of them.The pressure on cities can only go on increasing.The urban population of the developing countries will exceed 2 billion people by the year 2000 and since the main reason for the high demographic growth is poverty,the additional population will be mostly made of people of very limited means.
1.If the urban population of the developing countries exceeds 2 billion people by the year 2000,the additional people will face the problem of _____.
a.housing
b.food
c.poverty
d.limited land
2.According to the passage about US $ 116 billion are reauired to give minimum comfort to these people by the turn of the century--less than US $ 10billion per year.Do you think which year was the article written by sayingless than $ 10 billion per yearby the turn of the century?
a.1985
b.1990
c.1988
d.1987
3. The mankind should face the phenomenon that the world has become a world of cities with _____.
a.a lot of difficulties
b.efforts to improve housing condition
c.pressure of the basic needs
d.new nodels and a great deal of transformation of ideas and methods
4.In Africa,people in cities will be _____ by the end of the century.
a.almost twice as much as in 1985
b.doubled than that in 1985
c.over twice as much as in 1985
d.300 million
5.In spite of teh efforts to improve housing condition,the number of peole living in shanty towns will increase because _____.
a.houses in shanty towns are cheap
b.shanty towns could provide people with minimum comfort
c.no policy will be capable of stopping or changing the prsent immigrant tendency from the rural areas to the cities in the Third World
d.the Third World population is growing at a rate of about 80 million people per year
答案:cabcc
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