The assessment of humanity’s __(1)__ in the next 100 years, which has taken 21 months to complete, argues strongly that to achieve long and healthy lives for all 9 billion people ___(2)___ to be living in 2050, the twin issues of population and __(3)___ must be pushed to the top of political and economic agenda. Both issues have been largely ___(4)___ by politicians and played down by environment and development for 20 years.

The number of people living on the planet has never been higher, their levels of consumption are __(5)__ and vast changes are taking place in the environment. We ___(6)___ choose to rebalanced the use of resources ___(7)___ a more egalitarian pattern of consumption… or we can choose to do nothing and to ___(8)___ into a downward
spiral of economic and environmental ills ___(9)____ to a more unequal and inhospitable future.

At today’s rate of population increase developing countries will have to build the equivalent of a city of a million people every five days from now to 2050, says the report. “Global population growth is ____(10)___ for the next few decades. By 2050, it is projected that today’s population of 7 billion will have grown by 2.3 billion, the equivalent of new China and an India.”

1.
a) prospective
b) perception
c) prospects
d) aims
e) prospecting

2.
a) expect
b) expecting
c) expectation
d) expected
e) aspirations

3.
a) consumption
b) resumption
c) revamp
d) reconstruction
e) expenditure

4.
a) ignoring
b) ignored
c) cared
d) attended
e) attention

5.
a) unprecedented
b) limited
c) useful
d) surprised
e) amazed

6.
a) would have
b) should be
c) can
d) are
e) have

7.
a) to
b) by
c) for
d) with
e) of

8.
a) drifted
b) drift
c) flew
d) flowing
e) walk

9.
a) led
b) held
c) leading
d) going
e) doing

10.
a) evitable
b) inevitable
c) inevitably
d) viable
e) dispensable