1 . Japan has a population of 127 million. Tokyo is the largest city and holds one third of the population in the country. There are thousands of people passing by in a minute at the center of the busiest crossing in the city. At weekends, the supermarkets and subway stations are crowded with people.
Japan's government is considering a new way to get people to consider life outside Tokyo: Pay them to leave.
According to a report from NHK on Nov. 22, if someone decides to move from the 23 blocks of Tokyo and find jobs somewhere else, the government will think about giving as much as 3 million yuan to people. The population is increasing all the time in Tokyo and the areas around the city even though the whole population of Japan reduces. That's often been at the cost of other cities. The number of people moving to Tokyo has exceeded the number moving out for 22 years and the number counting. Nearly one out of every three people in Japan lives in the Tokyo area.
In the past several years, Japan's government has taken many measures to encourage people to keep away from the capital. for example, help build smaller population areas. Some local governments have used tax cuts to encourage companies to leave the Tokyo area, while others will pay them to leave.
But Japan's large government institutions, its top schools, as well as companies all lie in Tokyo, leaving the capital seems to be a day dream for most Japanese.
1. What's the population of Tokyo?| A．About 127 million. | B．About 42 million. |
| C．About 31 million. | D．About 127 hundred million. |
| A．The people who live in Tokyo. | B．The people who work in Tokyo. |
| C．The people who leave for Tokyo. | D．The people who move out of Tokyo. |
| A．Useless. | B．Helpful. | C．Boring. | D．Easy. |
| A．Japanese in Tokyo can get as much as tax cuts. |
| B．Most Japanese will still live and work in Tokyo. |
| C．“Pay them to leave” is popular among Japanese. |
| D．Japan's government cares nothing about population. |
