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(Xinhua News)What kind of vehicle (工具) will you choose when traveling between provinces?Many people may like traveling by train because it’s safer and cheaper. Now the high-speed railways have connected eastern China as well as the south and the north.

A new high-speed railway opened on Sept. 10th, 2016. It connects Zhengzhou in Henan Province with Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province. With this railway, China’s high-speed railways are over 20,000 kilometers long. It is the world’s longest and makes up 60 percent of the world’s total high-speed railway lines.

Besides length, China also does better in speed. China is the only country with trains running at 350 kilometers an hour, such as the Beijing-Tianjin and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railways.

With these surprising numbers, it is easy to forget that China wasn’t the first in the high-speed rail game. Japan started 50 years ago, while Germany did 20 years ago. China only began to build its high-speed railways 14 years ago.

China’s high-speed railways are developing fast now. Behind it, there is the country’s growing need for transportation. According to Xinhua News, China’s high-speed trains gave 961 million trips to people last year.

“The high-speed railways not only bridge the distance, but connect people, information and goods,”said Huang Xin, an official from the China Railway Corp.

Yet, China’s building of high-speed railways is still going on. China plans to have 38,000 kilometers of high-speed railway by 2025.

1．Why may many people like traveling between provinces by train according to the passage?
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2．How long have China’s high-speed railways been since Sept.10th, 2016?
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3．Which country is the first one to build the high-speed railway?
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4．China’s building of high-speed railways isn’t still going on, is it?
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5．If you want to go to Beijing for the coming summer holidays, what kind of vehicle will you choose?
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