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上海市民办金盟学校2023-2024学年七年级上学期10月月考英语试题
What kind of vehicle (工具) will you choose when travelling between provinces (省)? Many people may like travelling by train because it's safer and cheaper. Now the high-speed railways have connected (连接) eastern and western 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 kilometres long. It is the world's longest and makes up 60 percent of the world's total (全部的) high-speed railway lines.
Besides length, China also does better in speed. China is the only country with trains running at 350 kilometres 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 (发展) fast now. Behind it, there is the country's growing need for transportation. China's high-speed trains gave 961 million trips to people last year.
"The high-speed railways not only bridge the distance (距离), 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 kilometres of high-speed railways by 2025.
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