Q&A

Passage 1

1. What is the population of Taiwan?
A:The number of people in Taiwan is over 22 million.
2. What is the population density of Taiwan?
A:There are about 1500 people per square mile on Taiwan.
3. Who were the first people to live in Taiwan?
A:Aborigine
4. When did aborigines first come to Taiwan?
A:About in 1623.

Passage 2

1. Who took over Taiwan and when?
A:Zheng Changing. They took over most of Taiwan and stayed until 1662 when the first large Chinese army came.
2. What did Zheng Cheng-gong do to restore Taiwan?
A:He was fighting the Manchu Emperor in China and had to escape to Taiwan.
3. Why are most of Taiwanese a mixture of races?
A: Cause many aborigines married with the Chinese and the Europeans.
4. What are the different races of Chinese?
A:Taiwanese,mainland Chinese, Hakka and aborigines.
5. What is the percentage of each race that makes up the population?
A: Taiwanese make up about 70% of the population, the Hakka about 14%, the mainlanders about 14% and the aborigines 2%.

Passage 3
1. Why are several languages spoken in Taiwan?
A: the number of different people in Taiwan.
2. What is the official language in Taiwan?
A: Mandarin.
3. What are the three major languages spoken in Taiwan?
A:Taiwanese,Mandarin and Hakka.

4. What makes the Chinese languages different from European ones?
A: They are tonal and it is difficult for non-Chinese to pronounce them.
5. What is “dialect”?
A:A from of a language that people speak in particular part of country, containing some different words and grammar,etc.

Passage 4
1. What is the second most popular foreign language learned by Taiwanese people? Why?
A:Japanese.Many of younger people still study Japanese at University.
2. Why do most of the older people speak Japanese?
A: Because Japan was governed Taiwan for fifty years.
3. Does the Taiwan government promote the use of English? How?
A: Nowadays, the government has put up street signs so it is now much easier to find your way around the cities and towns.
4. What are the two traditional religions in Taiwan?
A: Buddhism and Taoism.
5. Where does Buddhism come from and when?
A: Buddhism came from India 2000 years ago.
6. What is the main belief of Buddhism?
A: When people come back to Earth in new bodies after they die. If they were good, their next life will be better.

Passage 5
1. What does Taoism teach?
A:Taoism teaches that the whole world is governed by one principle.
2. Who founded Taoism? Who further developed it?
A:Laotzu started it as a philosophy,and a man named Chuang-Tzu helped to develop Taoism further.
3. Who was the great philosopher of China?
A:Confucius was the great philosopher of China.
4. What is the major belief of Confucianism?
A:Confucius thought that earlier Chinese rulers had