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　　The growth of the world’s population and its pressure to resources __1__ threaten to change the quality of life as we know it. It takes __2__ 100,000 years of human existence for the world to reach its 1997population of 5.85 billion people. The increase of 80 million people　in 1996 alone is the equivalent of a new U.S population every 3.4years or new Canadian population every 138 days. The UN population　Fund predicts that by the year 2050, the world population have __3__ exploded to 10 billion people. This would double in less than a　century the already bulging population who existed when it reached __4__ 5 billion in 1987. The chemicals we spew into the air also cause disease.
8 }" K0 W0 n2 S　　For example, they attack the Earth’s ozone layer, which helps shield　the Earth away the Sun’s deadly ultraviolet rays. It is well established __5__ that the ozone layer has thinned considerably during recent decades.Concomitantly, the rate of new cases of the dead skin cancer, __6__ melanoma, has grown dramatically from 1,168 of each 100,000 __7__ Americans to 3,650. This 213 percent increase means that 40,300　Americans diagnosed with melanoma in 1997 and 3,650 died of the __8__ disease. There are some scientists who believe that pollution is even　threatening the ability of humans to produce. Chemicals which are __9__ used to make pesticides, plastic, and other products are finding　their ways into the human food chain through fish and even through __10__ breast milk.
, g+ s0 c, S3 y* N# w　　答案：
/ ^" c* Q; G# N　　1.to—on。“给……造成的压力”应表述为 one’s pressure on something, 名次pressure通知和介词on搭配。
　　2.takes—took。句中的时间所指是1997年，所以必须用一般过去时。
　　3.popular--^will。这是一个时态问题。时间状语by the year 2050 是一个非常重要的信息，它表示将来的某一个时间点，这时主句应该用“将来完成体”will have done。
　　4.who—that/which。关系分句的先行词是population，尽管population的意思是“人口”，但是它的概念并不是somebody，而是something，所以关系代词应该用that或者which。
7 [' o$ B' B; v9 i/ K- i  a" r* \　　5.away—from。shield something from something 的意思是“遮挡……使得不受……的侵害”。
# Q4 d, s. [7 T. b# ?0 q; I　　6.dead—deadly。deadly 表“致命的”。
; Z# ^/ t+ m2 {# H8 ^6 }　　7.each—every.表示频率“每……中有……”，这里应该用every，而不能用each，例如： once every week，不能说 once each week。
9 f* E' O5 H9 J# u! P　　8.^diagnosed—were.diagnose（诊断）是一个及物动词，可以说be diagnose with/as…例如：
: C: c: T* R& u2 {* ~/ b# G　　The child has been diagnosed as having flu.
  Q' t# b, ]* p5 Z5 M　　9.produce—reproduce.produce 的意思是“生产，制造”，reproduce的意思是“生殖，繁殖”。
3 a# X% E  u; L$ o1 m: f　　10.ways—way.find one’s way into something 意思是“（设法）走进，进入”。在这个表达中，way只以单数形式出现。这样的词组还有：push one’s way into, work one’s way into, elbow one’s way into等。