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英语口语频道为大家整理的常用英语口语8000句：优生优育，供大家参考:) Is It a Good Idea to Control Population Growth in the World？ Text What Overpopulation Feels Like We moved slowly through the city in a taxi and entered a crowded slum district. The temperature was well over 100°and the air was thick with dust and smoke. The streets seemed alive with people. People eating, people washing, people sleeping. People visiting each other, arguing and screaming. People pushing their hands through the taxi windows, begging. People relieving themselves. People holding on to the sides of buses. People leading animals. People, people, people, people. As we drove slowly through the crowd, sounding the taxi' s horn, the dust, heat, noise and cooking fires made it like a scene from Hell. Would we ever get to our hotel？ All three of us were, I admit, frightened. Since that night, I've known what overpopulation feels like. Statistics show that rapid population growth creates problems for developing countries. So why don't people have fewer children？ Statistics from the developed countries suggest that it is only when people' s living standards begin to rise that birth rates begin to fa11. There are good reasons for this. Poor countries cannot afford social services and old age pensions, and people's incomes are so low they have nothing tospare for savings. | 
