Edexcel GCE Chinese Advanced Subsidiary Unit 1: Spoken Expression and Response in Chinese (Invigilator Version) Paper Reference Summer 2011 6CN01 You do not need any other materials. Turn over P38799A ©2011 Edexcel Limited. 1/1/1/ *p38799A* Instructions to the Invigilator • • • • • • Candidates must be allowed 15 minutes’ preparation time. • Any notes made during the preparation time must be kept by the centre until the release of results. The
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From 1910 – to 1940 Chinese immigrants were interrogated at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Many Americans resented the Chinese because they thought they were stealing their jobs and that the Chinese were taking jobs for lower wages. In 1882 The United States passed the exclusion act which implemented new restrictions and requirements for the Chinese. The act allowed the courts to refuse citizenship to the Chinese and allowed them to be deported. When the Chinese reached Angel Island the men were
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Chinese Cinderella I. Introduction: A.) Title of the book: * Chinese Cinderella (The true story of an unwanted daughter) B.) Author: * Adeline Yen Mah C.) Summary of the book: * When Adeline was born‚ her siblings called her a bad luck‚ because of their mother’s death. One year later‚ her father married a half French and half Chinese woman‚ who hated Adeline‚ as a replacement for her dead wife. Every time Adeline receives a reward from school‚ she would tell
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Chinese Food Catalogue Story 1 Chinese Traditional Staple Food Story 2 Chinese Characteristic Cuisine Story 3 Chinese Festival Food ❶ Chinese Traditional Staple Food 中国传统主食 ⒈ rice （米饭） Rice is the most common staple food （主食） in china. Different areas have different type of rice ‚it tastes different . Cooking method : boiling steaming （蒸） stir-frying （炒） ⒈ rice （米饭） Porridge rice fried ⒉ noodles （面条） Noodles is a very old food and it originated in china‚has a long history.As a staple
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Adeline’s character: In Chinese Cinderella‚ there are many instances whereby we can observe positive characteristic of Adeline. Firstly‚ Adeline is accepting of her situation and is very forgiving. On the first day of school‚ there was no one taking her to school and after school‚ “nobody was coming to pick her up”. However‚ she does not blame her father for failing to pick her up from school. Not only she is accepting to her situation‚ she is also very independent. She did not ask for help but
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China research – Bullet 5 Demographics Political and legal environment in China make it very volatile for business outside of the country. China is undergoing massive urbanisation with millions (160m) of people moving from rural to urban environments. However the mass industrialisation comes with a lot of pollution costs. The urbanisation is pushing up consumption per person but also increasing income per person. Population in China is suspected to reach 1 billion by 2030. The scale and pace of
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Chinese Cinderella is Adeline Yen Mah’s remarkable autobiography of her childhood. She was a rejected daughter growing up in World War II China. She longed for her father’s acceptance after her mother died in childbirth and her father remarried a young and cruel Eurasian woman. She finally receives his attention and brings honor to her family by winning a creative writing competition. In Adeline’s story the idea’s of rejection‚ abandonment and overcoming adversity is cleverly conveyed through the
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Reading Log for Fiction Sydney V. Best Title: Chinese Cinderella; The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter Author: Adeline Yen Mah Page Range: 1-42 Entry 1: “I did as I was told. Though I was only four years old‚ I understood I should not ask Aunt Baba too many questions about dead mama.” (Mah 3) Question 1: Who is speaking? Where does this particular scene take place (setting?) Explain the character’s thoughts‚ motives‚ and actions (i.e. what does this person
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Since the issue of Chinese currency exchange rate against U.S dollar has been capturing widespread attention‚ the purpose of the study proposed herein is to profit from empirically analyzing the income elasticity and elasticity of exchange rate of gross Sino-US trade and commodities from ten main categories1 by employing quarterly data from 1996 to 2009‚ aiming to judge whether Chinese currency needs an appreciation or not. Ever since the 1980s‚ due to its upgrade in industrial structure‚ the United
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Kai-shek’s coup marks the desertion of the national bourgeoisie from the revolution‚ which is the clash (emergence) of a Centre a national counter-revolution‚ and the conclusion of a deal between the Kuomintang Rights and the imperialists against the Chinese revolution.. - Chiang Kai-shek’s coup signifies that in South China there will now be two camps‚ two governments‚ two armies‚ two Centre -- the revolutionary Centre in Wuhan and the counter-revolutionary Centre in Nanking. - Chiang Kai-shek’s
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