China by the book.Each of the statements below tells you something about the People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China. There is just one problem. In each statement, we have made two errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation punctuation [Lat.,=point], the use of special signs in writing to clarify how words are used; the term also refers to the signs themselves. In every language, besides the sounds of the words that are strung together there are other features, such as tone, accent, and . Circle or underline each error. Then, on the blank line (Print.) a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats. See also: Blank given, rewrite the statement so it is correct. STATEMENTS 1. The Great Wall is originally built to protect ancient China from attack buy warrior nomads of Mongolia. 2. The Forbidden City Forbidden City: see Beijing and Chinese architecture. Forbidden City Imperial Palace complex in Beijing, containing hundreds of buildings and some 9,000 rooms. It served the emperors of China from 1421 to 1911. , site of the palaces of 24 Chinese Emperors was closed to the public for thousands of years. 3. China's last Emperor was P'u-i, who assended to the throne at age 3 and was desposed in 1912, at age 6. 4. For many year's, people in the west called China's capital Peking. 5. Taiwan, which away from Communist China broke in 1949, considers itself a independent nation, but the government in Beijing still considers it part of China. 6. The China people are of many different ethnic groups and spoke different languages. 7. The red field of China's flag represents the traditional color of the Han, China's majorital ethnic group, and the Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. , which took power in 1949. 8. About 20 percent of the world's population, lives in China. 9. China's government is trying to limit overpopulation overpopulation Situation in which the number of individuals of a given species exceeds the number that its environment can sustain. Possible consequences are environmental deterioration, impaired quality of life, and a population crash (sudden reduction in numbers caused by with it's one-child policy The Planned Birth policy (Simplified Chinese: 计划生育; Pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù) is the birth control policy of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). , in effect since nineteen 79. 10. Only about 1,600 giant pandas live wild, in there native habit of central China ANSWERS 1. The Great Wall of China was originally built to protect ancient China from attack warrior nomads of Mongolia. 2. The Forbidden City, site of the palaces of 24 Chinese Emperors,was closed to the public for thousands of years. 3. China's last Emperor was P'u'-i, who ascended to the throne at age 3 and was deposed in 1912, at age 6. 4. For many years, people in the West called China's capital Peking. 5. Taiwan, which broke away from Communist China in 1949, considers itself an independent nation, but the government in Beijing still considers it part of China. 6. The Chinese people The following is a '''list of famous Chinese-speaking/writing people. Note in Chinese names, the family name is typically placed first (for example, the family name of "Xu Feng" is "Xu"). are of many different ethnic groups and speak different languages. 7. The red field of China's flag represents the traditional color of the Han, China's ethnic group-and the Communist Party, which took power in 1949. 8. About 20 percent of the world's population_lives in China. 9. China's government is trying to limit overpopulation with its one-child policy, in effect since 1979. 10. Only about 1,600 giant pandas live wild, in their native habitat of central China. |
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