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Imagineone daygetting out of bed in Beijing and being at your office in Shanghai in only a couple of hoursand thenafter a full day of workgoing back home to Beijing and having dinner there

Sounds unusualdoesn't it? But it's not that unrealisticwith the development of Chinas highspeed railway systemAnd thats not a11China has an even greater highspeed railway planto connect the country with Southeast Asiaand eventually Eastern Europe

China is negotiating to extend its own high·-speed railway network to up to 17 countries in 1 0 to 15 yearseventually reaching London and Singapore

China has proposed three such projectsThe first would possibly connect Kunming withSingapore via Vietnam and MalaysiaAnother could start in Urumqi and go through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistanand possibly

to GermanyThe third would start in the northeast and go north through Russia and then into Western Europe

 

If Chinas plan for the high-speed railway goes forwardpeople could zip over from London to Beiling in under two days

The new system would still follow China’s highspeed railway standardAnd the trains would be able to go 346 kilometers an houralmost as fast as some airplanes

    China’s bullet train(高速客车)the one connecting Wuhan to Guangzhoualready has the

 World’s fastest average speedIt covers 1,069 kilometers in about three hours

Of coursethere are some technical challenges to overcomeThere are so many issues that need to be settledsuch as safetyrail gauge(轨距)maintenance of railway tracksSoit’s important to pay attention to every detail

But the key issue is really moneyChina is already spending hundreds of billions of yuan on

domestic railway expansion

China prefers that the other countries pay in natural resources rath er than with capital

investmentResources from those countries could stream into China to sustain development

It’11 be a win-win project. For other countriesthe railway network will definitely create more opportunities for businesstourism and so onnot to mention the better communication among those countnes

For Chinasuch a project would not only connect it with the rest of Asia and bring some much-needed resourcesbut would also help develop China’s far westWe foresee that in the coming decadesmillions of people will migrate to the western regionswhere the land is empty and resources unusedWith high-speed trainspeople will set up factories and business centers in the west once and for a11And they’11 trade with Central Asian and Eastern European countries

67China’s new high-speed railway plan will be a win-win project because     

  AChina will get much-needed resources and develop its western regions

  BChina and the countries involved will benefit from the project in various ways

  CChina will develop its railway system and communication with other countries

  D the foreign countries involved will develop their railway transportationbusiness and tourism

68According to the passagethe greatest challenge to the new high-speed railway plan is     

  Atechnical issues    Bsafety of the system

 

  Cfinancial problems  Dmaintenance of railway tracks

69Which of the following words best describes the author’s attitude towards China’s high-speed

  railway plan?

  ACritical    BReserved    CDoubtful     D. Positive

70Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

  ANew Railway Standards    BBig Railway Dreams

  CHighspeed Bullet Trains DInternational Railway Network

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