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[00:02.00]Part III
[00:07.08]The biggest cities in the world
[00:13.74]Key words:
[00:18.60]the biggest cities the top ten
[00:23.77]developed countries developing countries
[00:29.83]Vocabulary:
[00:34.87]complex enormous mere
[00:41.43]in terms of quadruple treble
[00:48.88]Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro Calcutta
[00:56.53]Bombay Delhi Seoul
[01:02.88]A:you are going to hear a conversation between an interviewer
[01:09.75]and an expert about the biggest cities in the world.
[01:15.31]While listening,focus on the numbers and complete the two charts below.
[03:50.95]B:Now listen to the conversation again
[03:56.23]and try to find out the other seven cities
[04:00.98]whose population is likely to be in the top ten in 2000.
[04:07.46]Part IV
[04:11.51]Language study and language appreciation
[04:17.38]Listen to the following statements.
[04:21.15]Pay special attention to the parts in bold type.
[04:26.32]Learn to appreciate and use the language.
[04:30.86]1.the 2nd(3rd,4th...) largest in population
[04:39.33]The second largest in population is India.
[04:45.57]Which country is the fourth largest in population?
[04:51.81]2...ranks 1st(2nd,3rd...) in its population
[05:01.66]Brazil ranks the fifth in its population.
[05:08.22]Nigeria in Africa ranks the tenth in its population.
[05:15.38]3.The population is/was...
[05:23.03]According to the 1997 census,the total population was 1,234,738,000.
[05:36.07]The estimated population was 122,013,000 in 1997.
[05:46.64]According to statistice,its population was 96,400,000 in 1997.
[05:56.91]4.with a population of...
[06:02.37]Next comes the Russian Federation,with a population of 147,105,000.
[06:13.52]The seventh in line is Pakistan,with an estimated population of 138,150,000.
[06:24.99]5.The population reached...
[06:30.16]Its population estimated in 1997 reached 125,638,000.
[06:41.63]6.(A language) has... speakers.
[06:46.99]Chinese has the largest number of speakers,more than 1,300 million.
[06:58.32]German has 98 million speakers.
[07:04.57]Nest comes Turkish,the language spoken in Turkey,and it has 59 million speakers.
[07:16.11]7.(A language) is spoken by...people.
[07:22.88]Bengali is spoken by 189 million people.
[07:31.66]Japanese is spoken by 125 million.
[07:38.79]8....symbolize the passing of the mark
[07:44.95]The United Nations had declared that the first child to
[07:51.48]be delivered at the Kosovo Hospital in Sarajevo today
[07:56.53]would symbolize the passing of the mark.
[08:00.37]9....as an attempt to...
[08:04.94]The UN Secretary General is visiting the mother and her son as
[08:12.07]a UN attempt to draw attention to the social
[08:17.11]and ecological problems of rapidly expanding populations.