Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space. Population growth is a serious (1)...........around the world. At the beginning of the 20th (2)...........,there were about 1.5 billion ..

Question 3: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in each space. Population growth is a serious (1)...........around the world. At the beginning of the 20th (2)...........,there were about 1.5 billion (3)........ in the world. In 1984 the world population (4)..........4.8 billion people. By the year 2000, ...........(5) Will be about 6.1 billion. This growth in population is not happening (6).......... For example in Europe the population is not growing at all .(7).........in these countries are smaller now. Only about 2.1 (8).........are born for every woman.