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Is it possible to send messages to someone anywhere in the world without putting a stamp on it? It’s easy to do so. Using computers you can send e-mail quickly and easily. If you have an e-mail address， you can write， send and receive messages.
E-mail is the most inexpensive way to communicate. You can send message at any time of day or night to people all over the world without paying for a long-distance call. Many companies use e-mail for people in their office or in other office to communicate with one another. You can send the same message to fifty people or more. It doesn’t matter if your friends are in bed when you send e-mail to them， or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send e-mail back. Many schools and universities give e-mail address to their students. E-mail addresses are becoming as common as phone numbers， but it can also make our lives more complicated.
1. What do you need to send and receive e-mail?
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2. Which is cheaper and faster to send messages， by e-mail or by post?
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3. When and where can e-mail be sent?
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4. You can’t get any e-mails when you are out， can you?
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5. Do you think it’s helpful to use e-mail or not? Why?
__________________________________________
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In the time it takes you to read this sentence， the population of the world will have grown by ten people. That may not sound much， but it is 9，000 people in an hour， 1.5 million a week， or 79 million a year. That is the same as adding most of the population of Germany to the world every year.
Most of these new people were born in developing countries. These countries are found in much of Africa， South America and parts of Asia. In the developed countries of Europe and North America， the population is growing very slowly. This is because women in these countries have， on average， only one or two children. In the developing countries， many women have five or more children. In 1950， around one quarter of the world’s population lived in the developed countries. By 2050， these countries will be home to only around one tenth of the world’s people.
In the developing countries， more than one billion people already live below the poverty (贫困) line. These people do not have enough food to eat and they live in poor housing; children get little or no time at school and people suffer (遭受痛苦) from many kinds of diseases.
At the beginning of the 21st century， the world’s population was around six billion people. The UN has said that the world’s population will level off at 12.5 billion people by the year 2100. Other groups think the world’s population will continue to grow， reaching 14 billion people before it becomes stable (稳定的)， or even falls.
1. How many people are added to the world’s population an hour?
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2. Developing countries can be found in what areas of the world?
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3. In 1950， what percentage of the world’s population lived in developing countries?
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4. What are examples that show people are living below the poverty line?
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5. There will be twelve and a half billion people on the earth in 2100 according to the UN， won’t there?
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Many people don’t like to stay at home on holidays. They want to go out to see something different or do something exciting. So people from the country come to the city and people from the city go to the country for holidays. During the holidays， trains， buses and planes are all very busy. It’s very hard to buy train tickets or air tickets. Many people take cars or buses for traveling.
Last May Day， my family went to the country by car for our holiday. There was too much traffic on the road. So we had to move very slowly. It took us about an hour to get out of the town. After some time， we came to a hill. It was green and beautiful. We thought this was a good place for a picnic. So we stopped and took the food， fruit and drink out of the car. We sat down and began to eat. Suddenly a strong wind blew and soon it started to rain. We had to run back to our car and have our picnic in the car. Then we drove back home. What a sad trip!
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