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What is the population of China? There are more than a billion and three hundred million people in China. It is almost one fifth of the world's population. How to control the population growth is a big problem. Some people think 1 control the population growth. But I don't agree 2 them, because where there's a will, there is a way.

The question is that we should make it 3 how serious the population problem is. Our farmland is becoming less and less to everyone. We have already got too many mouths to feed. 4 we control the population growth, many people will die 5 hunger. Too fast population growth has been and will be bad for our nation. Though laws(法律) have been 6 to control the population growth, in some places 7 is done to carry out the law. We should make people 8 that it is foolish to bring too many children into the world. They should 9 do what they have been doing for many years.

We are fighting against the rapid population growth. Yes, the fighting won't end 10 everyone knows its importance and does something for it. Let's go on working hard on it together.

—Great changes _____ in my hometown recently.

—So _____ I.

—It _____ about 296 million.

A: Hi, Mike! You're reading the novel again.

B: Yes, John. I've never been tired of it.

A:

B: Three times. Every time I read it, I can learn something new.

A: Really?

B: Charles Dickens. I think he is a great English writer.

A:  He is also my favorite foreign writer. Please let me have a look at it.

B: OK, here you are! ... What do you think of this novel?

A:  I haven't seen such a novel for long. Where did you buy it?

B: In the Xinhua Bookshop.

A: I don't know where it is.

B: No, only 10 minutes' walk from here, next to the People's Cinema.

A: Oh, I see. I'm going there to get one, too. Thank you!

B: You're welcome!