Question

[Lưu Nhật Minh]

Part I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following paragraph. (20 points)

Since man has discovcred ways of treating illnesses and diseases, and has thus rcduced the death-rate, the only way to control population (1).........................is by lowering the birth-rate. In fact, as people in modern industrial societies began to move in (2)...............to work in the towns and factories, they found that a smaller family was easier to (3).................... So in Western Europe after the Industrial Revolution, the birth-rate did slow down as parents chose to have(4).........................children. More importantly, modern birth control measures have made it possible (5) ..................... parents to decide how many children to have. But reducing the birth-rate is not as easy as that. There (6)      many religious, social economic reasons (7)...................some parents do not want to control the (8)...................of children they have. For example, in some of the less developed parts of the world, many children are needẹd to help work the land, or (9) .....................wages that supplement the family income. To halt the population growth in such areas, it will first be necessary to raise the (10).......of living, so that parents do not need a large family.