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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 the state of the world read an article about the state of the world to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… to eradicate 2. …… to sustain 3. …… a civilian 4. …… life expectancy 5. …… contraception 6. …… to fuel 7. …… to be down to 8. …… optimism a. to support b. to make something increase or become stronger c. methods of preventing pregnancy d. to make something disappear forever e. how long a person is expected to live f. positive thinking g. someone who is not a soldier h. to be the result of reading text: the state of the world if your view of the world comes from watching …

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even more children who survived into adulthood and had their own children. but with the wider availability of contraception in the 1960s, the global average number of babies per woman has declined from six babies per woman to as low as two. © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish the biggest factor in child mortality is poverty. and while it’s still true that only 20 per cent of the world takes about 74 per cent of the world’s income, 60 per cent of the world now falls into a middle-income group, with 11.6 per cent – the smallest amount of people in history – still living in conditions of extreme poverty. if the majority of the world’s people have money, international aid could realistically achieve the un target of eradicating poverty by 2030. as poverty goes down, life expectancy goes up, birth rates go down because parents can expect their existing children …

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the news is bad news, whatever the tv and newspapers might say. tasks task 1 match the numbers with the facts they represent. 60% 11.6% 20% 11 billion 5.3 74% 1. ……………………………… the expected peak global population 2. ……………………………… the size of the richest group of people 3. ……………………………… the amount of the richest group’s income 4. ……………………………… the amount of people who are neither rich nor poor 5. ……………………………… the amount of people with the least money 6. ……………………………… the number of murders per 100,000 people in 2015 © 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish task 2 circle the best answer. 1. what does the word ‘apparently’ in the first paragraph tell us about the rise in violence we see in the news? a. the rise is obviously true. b. the rise seems to be true but evidence might show it isn’t. c. the rise seems false but evidence might show …

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© 2019 british council www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish reading: c1 the state of the world read an article about the state of the world to practise and improve your reading skills. before reading do the preparation task first. then read the text and do the exercises. preparation task match the definitions (a–h) with the vocabulary (1–8). vocabulary definitions 1. …… to eradicate 2. …… to sustain 3. …… a civilian 4. …… life expectancy 5. …… contraception 6. …… to fuel 7. …… to be down to 8. …… optimism a. to support b. to make something increase or become stronger c. methods of preventing pregnancy d. to make something disappear forever e. how long a person is expected to live f. positive …

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