2019年12月英语六级考试阅读美文赏析4

同学们在备考时可以根据坦途网英语六级考试频道更新的历年真题总结出英语六级考试阅读技巧，这可以锻炼大家的归纳能力。其实美文赏析也是一样，虽然没有考题，但是也相当于一篇阅读理解，大家可以按照考试要求练习速度，对阅读理解也是有帮助的。

Population Growth

The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward toward infinity and doom. On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant. According to paleoecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes. The first, a rapid increase in population around one m illion B. C., followed the innovations of tool making and tool using. But when the new power from the use of tools has been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable. The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when mankind began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth. Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated. These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if, technology begins to yield fewer innovations. Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end. Either way - contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth - population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity. And when one takes this view, population growth is seen to represent economic progress and human triumph rather than social failure.

同学们对于今天更新的美文赏析有什么感受吗？美文阅读不仅仅是通读一遍就结束了，更多的是学习好句式的表达，思考怎么把这些优美的句子应用到作文中，并且思考有没有提高自己的阅读速度，语感有没有提升，这些都是同学们需要注意的问题，只要解决了所有问题，英语六级考试也就胜券在握了。