Something to Ponder on World Population Day
Guidance for Reciting
World Population Day falls on July 11.If the earth's population could be shrunk to a village of precisely 100 people，there would be 1 person near death，50 suffering from malnutrition，1 having a college education and 6 possessing 59% of the entire world's wealth…
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the millions who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle，the loneliness of imprisonment，the agony of torture，or the pangs of starvation…you are ahead of 500 millions people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator，clothes on your back，a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank，in your wallet，and spare change in dish someplace…you are among the top 6% of the world's wealth.
If your parents are still alive and still married…you are very rare，even in the United States and Canada.
在世界人口日的遐想
诵读导言
7月11日是世界人口日。假如将全世界各种族的人口缩小成一个100人的村庄，那么，这个村庄将有1人濒临死亡，50人营养不良，1人接受过大学教育，6人占有了世界59%的财富……
如果你早上醒来的时候身体健康无恙，那么比起活不过这一周的几百万人来说，你真是幸运多了。
如果你未曾经历过战争的危险、入狱的孤独、严刑的苦楚和饥饿的痛苦，那么比起世界上5亿人来，你真是幸运多了。
如果你的冰箱里有食物，身上有衣服可穿，有房可住又有地方睡觉，那么比起世上75%的人来，你真是富足多了。
如果你银行里有存款，钱包里有钞票，还能到某处消费、点菜，那么你便跻身于世上最富有的6%人口当中了。
如果你父母还健在，而且没有离异，这可是非常难得的事，即使是在美国与加拿大。
Notes
1.ponder [5pRndE] v. 沉思，考虑
2.malnutrition [5mAlnju（：）5triFEn] n. 营养不良
3.torture [5tR：tFE] n. 拷问，折磨
4.pang [pAN] n. 剧痛，悲痛，苦闷