The Chinese, People of the Central Country

　　The people in China don't call themselves “Chinese”. You will never hear them call their own country “China”. The Chinese word for their country means “Central Country.” Of course, they want to be called “people of the Central Country.”

　　These facts come from the book called China by Daniel Chu. What else does the book talk about? The index (索引) in the back pages of the book will tell you. A part of the book's index is shown below.

　　Use the index from the book China to answer these questions.

1．Which of these pages might describe the daily life of the “people of the Central Country”?

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2．If you want to know how big the “Central Country” is, on what page will you start to read?

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3．Which of these words give the pages that will have facts about the Chinese New Year?

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4．Which pages have photographs or pictures of farms?

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5．The words in the index are in the order of the alphabet. Therefore, families comes before farming and right after ________ .

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④WORK WANTED Strong boy pleased to work in garden or do housework. 3 hours a week.  See Tom.

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(   ) 1. Susan doesn’t want to rent the house because_____.

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