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专升本英语阅读训练 Passage 1 Population tends to grow at an exponential(指数的)rate. This means that they progressively double. As an example of this type of growth rate take one penny and double every day for one month. After the first week, you would have only 64 cent, but after the fourth week you would have over a million dollars. This helps explain why the population has come on揳ll eof a sudden?took from he beginning pof human 1ife to the year 1830 for the population of the earth to reach one