题目内容：

(2017湖南衡阳)

(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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