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Unit Seven.

Reading.

Please help the Global Village Fund.

Exercise Six.

There are now more than seven billion people in the world. That's a big number to understand. So let's imagine that the world is a village with a hundred inhabitants. They all live in different ways. They speak different languages and practice different religions. But they all want the same things. Enough food and water and a healthy, happy life.

Who lives in the global village? If there were a hundred people, sixty-one of them would be Asian. Thirteen would be African, and twelve would be European.

Sixty of them would speak Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, or Russian. And forty would speak other languages.

Some of the villagers would be too poor to go to school. Seventeen of them would be illiterate. And if the conditions in the village reflected life in the real world, things would be very different for all the inhabitants.

Only seven people would have a computer. Seventy-six people wouldn't have a telephone or a TV.

The environment would also be different for everyone. Thirty-two people would breathe polluted air. And twenty-five people wouldn't have access to clean drinking water.

In the global village, there should be enough food for everyone. There are thirty-one sheep, twenty-three cows, and a hundred and eighty-nine chickens. But some of the villagers eat too much, and they don't share the food equally. So sixty people are often hungry. And only twenty-four people always have a fridge full of food.

Would you help the other villagers if you have the chance? Please be generous and donate to the Global Village Fund. We will use every penny to help people who are poor, hungry, and ill. Help us to make our global village a better place for everyone.