课时讲练通2017_2018学年高中英语Module2DevelopingandDevelopedCountriesPeriod1IntroductionReadingandVocabulary（文本研读课）课后阅读作业外研版必修3.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 8Module 2 Developing and Developed Countries Period 1 Introduction Reading and VocabularyⅠ. 阅读理解ABrazil has become one of the developing world’s greatest successes in reducing population growth—but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had a better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Brazil’s population growth rate has dropped from 2. 99% a year between 1951 and 1960 to 1. 93% a year between 1981 and 1990, and Brazilian women now have only 2. 7 children on average. Martine says