Question

Complete the following passage by filling in the blanks with appropriate article. Put a cross (×) where no article is required.

Answer 1

The blanks are filled with proper articles as follows:

It is an over-simplification to blame all the world's problems on the increasing population. Countries with a small fraction of the world's population consume a bulk of the world's production of x minerals, fossil fuels and so on. Thus we see that when it comes to the depletion of natural resources and x environmental pollution, the increase of x one inhabitant in an affluent country  at his level of living is x equivalent to the increase of many Asians, Africans or Latin Americans at their current material levels of living.