8.3 World Population Crosses 6.5 Billion Mark

Extract : View Section. A1. Fill in the blanks with correct words from the extract.
1. They arrived at this figure by calculating the amount of heat a human body...........
2. In fact, ............is actually on the decline worldwide.
3. The earth is capable of comfortably .............. a population several times the current 6.5 billion.
4. Figures show that a bigger population does not amount to greater .............
5. Concerns over scarcity of food are equally ........
6. If people starve in many countries, it is not because food is becoming .........
A2. Read the following statements and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements.
l . Researchers recently announced that the earth could actually withstand upto 200,000 times the current population.
2. Though population has grown, the rate of growth has risen sharply.
3. The US is overpopulated.
4. Human population will stabilize at about 11.5 billion.
5. Global food population has actually kept up with population growth.

A3. 20' of world's highest income group account for 86% of total private consumption. Explain.
A4.Match the worlds in column A with their meanings in column B .

Column A	Column B
habitable	liveable
withstand	decrease
fertility	bear
decline	capacity to produce

A5. Write your views about overpopulation.

A6.Rewrite as directed
1. Though population has grown, the rate of growth has risen sharply.(Rewrite using 'but'.)
2. Would you say the US is overpopulated?( Rewrite as assertive.)

Extract : Counterview Section

A1. Fill in the blanks with correct words from the extract.
1. The number of people on this planet right now is approaching....... billion.
2. ........itself has more than a quarter of its population below the poverty line.

3. The researcher predicts......... buildings to hold a burgeoning earth population.

4. With that sort of crowding in, our lives are sure to become.......... .........

5. We might have trouble finding on the same hemisphere as our workplace or
any.......... ever in our homes.

A2. Read the following statements and state whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements.
l. With about a quarter of our population in cities living in slums, there is a serious lack of non-collapsible roofs over our heads.
2. In time, even if we do solve some of the problems that a population several times today's will bring, there is still a lot to worry about.
3. We will live in a world of artificial lighting.
4. Technology will help us in solving the problem.
A3. Narrate the problems India will face with an increasing population.
A4. Match the words in Column A with their Antonyms in column B.

Column A	Column B
enough	natural
decreasing	thinness
thickness	insufficient
artificial	increasing

A5. The future does not look bright. Explain.
A6. Rewrite in the ways instructed.
1. We live in a world of artificial lighting.( Rewrite in present perfect continuous tense.)
2. All that will make us an industrious, closely-packed society.(Make it less certain.)