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Corn is __________ and food is lacking

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Scarce

Absent

Not available

Now here

In North Africa Abd-al-Rehman____ escaped asassination

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With difficulty

Barely

Luckily

easily

The death rate was reduced by one-third in two years by greatly reducing ________ from malaria.

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Troubles

Mortailty

Shocks

Suffering

The food bins are broken open and empty.

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Containers

Boxes

Stores

Cases

One couple need only produce just............. children to replace themselves.

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two

four

five

One

We can get some idea of these _________ from out folk-lore

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famines

picnics

enjoyments

travels

Within two or three centuries there will only be enough room on the earth for people to __________

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sit down

stand up

lie down

run across

Many countries have carried out _ programmes to free their countrymen of yaws.

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Massive

Well-known

Successful

Old

But even in these areas the low death ratee........................ that the population is still growing fairly rapidly.

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Mane

Main

Means

Men's

Robin Hood helped with transport of food robbing the __________ to feed the poor

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villagers

rich

penniless

destitute

Hunger means never having enough to ______

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Ate

Eat

Eaten

Biten

The population is growing at the rate of 6.6 per ________ of the population

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100

400

1000

1500

In the U.K. the death rate for 1963 was.

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11.6

9.6

7.6

5.6

They are the children who weight........... 1b at the age of two years.

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6

10

15

20

We can get some idea of these................. from our folk lore.

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famines

Enjoyments

Travels

Pinics

As recently as 1942 in Bombay one million ___________ to death when the rice crop failed

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smiled

slept

strayed

starved

A year later, India still faced an even worse _________ of famine

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threat

thread

tread

thud

Most people_______ older people cannot read or write in an underdeveloped country.

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All

A few

Particularly

Perhaps

These were serious enough to mean ______ for him and his family

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Starve

Starves

Starvation

Starved

From the birth of Christ to about................ there are records of famine every............ years.

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Two

Five

Ten

Twenty

Nine-and-a-half million people perished in a single famine which then swept North china.

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Disappeared

Went missing

Died

Became ill

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