【2011·河北邯郸市二模】E
India’s population has grown by 181 million people over the past ten years to 1.21 billion, according to the 2011 census(人口普查) result announced on March 31.
More people now live in India than in the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh counted together.
Although its speed of population growth is slowing, India is on course to overtake China as the most populous country around 2030, figures show.
The census also shows a continuing preference for boys - India's sex ratio is at its worst since it was founded.
Figures for the past 10 years show fewer girls than boys are being born or living. They show 914 girls were born for every 1,000 boys under the age of six, compared with 927 for every 1,000 in 2001 census.
Government officials said they would review all their measures towards it, which they admitted were failing.
The population of India now is made of 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females.
Mr. Chandramauli, Census Commissioner, told a news reporter in the capital, Delhi that the increase in the population over the past ten years is in agreement with official estimates(估计).
The figure shows India’s large population growing fast—181 million is about equal to the entire population of Brazil—but the speed of growth has slowed.
The 2011 census shows a population increase of 17.6% from 2011, compared with one of 21.5 in the last ten years.
Uttar Pradesh remains India’s most populous state—199 million people now live there.
In the field of education there was good news, with the census showing the literacy rate(识字率) going up to 74% from about 65% in the last count.
India started the 2011 census in April last year. Some 2.7 million officials visited households in about 7,000 towns and 600,000 villages, sorting out the population according to sex, religion（宗教）, education and job.
The exercise, carried out every 10 years, faces big problems, not least India’s large area and differences of cultures. Census officials also have to face high levels of illiteracy and millions of homeless people.
57．This passage mainly tells us that .
A．India’s population has grown to 181 million people overt the past ten years
B．India’s population has grown to 1.21 billion over the past ten years
C．the speed of population growth of India is slowing
D．the increase in the population over the past ten years matches with official estimates.
58．According to the passage, we can see that .
A．about 0.9 billion people can read now
B．about 0.78 billion people can read now
C．2 million people now live in Delhi
D．more than 65 percent of the population in India are males
59．The word “it” in the sixth paragraph refer to .
A．the 2011 census B．the literacy rate
C．a continuing preference for boys D．the speed of population growth
60．We can learn from the passage that .
A．Uttar Pradesh will be India’s most populous state
B．the 2011 census result is a surprise to the government
C．the next census will be carried out in 2031
D．the population of Brazil is 181 million or so