36. What will Hu Jintao’s talk with Lien Chan bring across the Taiwan Straits?

A. Resources.       B. Meetings.       C. Tourism        D. Peace.

35. What may be the reason if a shopper usually shops in Supermarket Y?

    A. The Environment.    B. The Service.      C. The Business hours.  D. The Price.

                                  C

Taiwan appears in newspaper headlines more often these days. On April 26, 2005 Kuomintang leader, Lien Chan, visited the mainland and three days later, President Hu Jintao held talks with him. This is the first meeting in 56 years and may help to bring peace across the Taiwan Straits(海峡).

     How much do you know about this beautiful island? The island faces Fujian. The shortest distance from Taiwan to Fujian is 130 kilometres across the Taiwan Straits. A ship can cover it in four hours.

     As the biggest island, Taiwan is still only about one-sixth the size of Hunan. Around it, there are also lots of smaller ones, like Penghu Islands and Diaoyu Islands.

     Taiwan is rich in natural resources (资源). Half of the island is covered with forests, and it has many kinds of agricultural products(农产品), like rice and tea.

     Taiwanese people are mostly descendants (后代) of people from Fujian and Guangdong. They still use the language from their old hometowns. They also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. At the Spring Festival, they even eat dumplings!

     Once, communications across the Straits were not so good. In 1979, Beijing put forward an idea that Taiwanese people should use better ways of communicating and build better business and transportation. There is now more business and tourism(旅游业) across the Straits. On July 4, 2008, the first direct flights between Taiwan and five mainland cities such as Beijing, Shanghai Nanjing, Guangzhou and Xiamen started up.

      As we all know, Taiwan is always an important part of our country. We are one big family. But some top leaders in Taiwan like Lee Tenghui and Chen Shuibian have been trying to make Taiwan an independent(独立) country. This made people on both sides angry, because it goes against the history and the wishes of all the Chinese.

34. From above, which supermarket may have the fewest shoppers?

   A. Supermarket W.     B. Supermarket T.     C. Supermarket M.    D. Supermarket Y.

33. If you want to spend the least money on eggs, which supermarket will you go to?

   A. Supermarket W.     B. Supermarket M.     C. Supermarket Y.    D. Supermarket T.

32. The price of the pork in ___________ is the same as that in ___________.

A. Supermarket W; Supermarket M       B. Supermarket Y; Supermarket T

    C. Supermarket W; Supermarket Y        D. Supermarket M; Supermarket T

31. Which supermarket has the longest Business Hours?

   A. Supermarket W.    B. Supermarket T.     C. Supermarket Y.    D. Supermarket M.

Tomatoes (1 kilo): ₤1.60

Environment: Just so-so

Service: Bad

Pork ( 1 kilo): ₤18.60

Apples(1 kilo): ₤3.90

Eggs (1 kilo): ₤ 6.90