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PART I Writing [30 MIN] write a short essay entitled My View on Cyber Language. 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…… My View on Cyber Language PART II Reading Comprehension [Skimming and Scanning] [15 MIN ] The Global Food Crisis and Thomas Malthus Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty. But unlike previous shocks driven by short-term food shortages, this price spike came in a year when the worlds farmers reaped a record grain trop. This time, the high prices were a symptom of a larger problem tugging at the strands of our worldwide food web, one thats not going away anytime soon. Simply put: for most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing. After years of drawing down stockpiles, in 2007 the world has seen global carryover stocks fall to 61 days of global consumption, the second lowest on record.” Agricultural productivity growth is only one to two percent a year, warned Joachim von Braun, director general of the International Food Polity Research Institute in Washington, D.C., at the height of the crisis. This is too low to meet population growth and increased demand: Rebrospectian: MalthusTheory Ever since our ancestors gave up hunting and gathering for plowing and planting some 12,000 years ago, our numbers have marched corresponding with our agricultural productivity Each advance--the domestication of animals, irrigation, and wet rice production--led to a corresponding jump in human population. Every time food was stately supplied, population eventually leveled off. Early Arab and Chinese writers noted the relationship between population and food resources, but it wasn’t until the end of the 18th Century that a British scholar tried to explain the exact me