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1、PARTIWriting[30MIN]writeashortessayentitledMyViewonCyberLanguage.1.网络语言越来越流行2不同的人有不同的看法3我认为……MyViewonCyberLanguagePARTIIReadingComprehension[SkimmingandScanning][15MIN]TheGlobalFoodCrisisandThomasMalthusLastyeartheskyrocketingcostoffoodwasawake-upcallfortheplanet.Between2005and
2、thesummerof2008,thepriceofwheatandcorntripled,andthepriceofriceclimbedfivefold,spurringfoodriotsinnearlytwodozencountriesandpushing75millionmorepeopleintopoverty.Butunlikepreviousshocksdrivenbyshort-termfoodshortages,thispricespikecameinayearwhentheworld'sfarmersreapedarecordgr
3、aintrop.Thistime,thehighpriceswereasymptomofalargerproblemtuggingatthestrandsofourworldwidefoodweb,onethat'snotgoingawayanytimesoon.Simplyput:formostofthepastdecade,theworldhasbeenconsumingmorefoodthanithasbeenproducing.Afteryearsofdrawingdownstockpiles,in2007theworldhasseenglo
4、balcarryoverstocksfallto61daysofglobalconsumption,thesecondlowestonrecord.”Agriculturalproductivitygrowthisonlyonetotwopercentayear",warnedJoachimvonBraun,directorgeneraloftheInternationalFoodPolityResearchInstituteinWashington,D.C.,attheheightofthecrisis."Thisistoolowtomeetpop
5、ulationgrowthandincreaseddemand:'Rebrospectian:Malthus'TheoryEversinceourancestorsgaveuphuntingandgatheringforplowingandplantingsome12,000yearsago,ournumbershavemarchedcorrespondingwithouragriculturalproductivityEachadvance--thedomesticationofanimals,irrigation,andwetriceproduc
6、tion--ledtoacorrespondingjumpinhumanpopulation.Everytimefoodwasstatelysupplied,populationeventuallyleveledoff.EarlyArabandChinesewritersnotedtherelationshipbetweenpopulationandfoodresources,butitwasn’tuntiltheendofthe18thCenturythataBritishscholartriedtoexplaintheexactmechanism
7、linkingthetwo--andbecameperhapsthemastvilified(遭人辱骂的〕socialscientistinhistory.ThomasRobertMalthus,thenamesakeofsuchtermsas"Malthusiancollapse"and"Malthusiancurse",wasamild-manneredmathematician,aclergyman-and,hiscriticswouldsay,theultimateglass-half-emptykindofguy.WhenafewEnlig
8、htenmentphilosophers,giddyfromthesuccessoftheFrenchRev
