Joel Cohen，a professor of population studies at Rockefeller University and Columbia University in New York，said universal secondary education offered a way to reduce population in high birth rate regions.In addition to providing information about birth control，a secondary education teaches women to reduce their own fertility，improve the health of their children and allows them to move from a mindset of having many children in the hope that some will survive to improve the quality of each child’s life，Cohen wrote in the journal Nature.

　　【语篇解读】　人口的快速增长困扰着世界。有关人士指出，控制人口快速增长的一种方式就是提高女性的受教育水平，进而改变人们头脑中固有的传统生育观念。

　　36．In the first paragraph，the author introduces his topic by________.

　　A．giving an example

　　B．explaining the author’s opinions

　　C．describing the poor education system

　　D．coming straight to the topic

　　答案　A　[篇章结构题。在本段中，作者以爱尔兰前总统Mary Robinson与埃塞俄比亚的一位已婚少女的交谈为例引入话题，所以A项正确。

　　37．What can we learn from the passage?

　　A．Robinson is happy after talking to the Ethiopian girl.

　　B．Robinson is a successful expert in population studies.

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