认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格内填入最恰当的词。注意：每空一词。Tenisnotjustanumber.ForHongKongitmeanschange.Thatchangebegan10yearsagoonJuly11997wh

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认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后图表中的空格内填入最恰当的词。

 注意：每空一词。

Ten is not just a number. For Hong Kong it means change. That change began 10 years ago on July 1 1997 when Hong Kong was returned to the mainland. A year later putonghua became a major subject in middle schools there. Street chatter now is trilingual: Cantonese English and putonghua.

But language is just one of the many changes. Over the past 10 years the flow of people has left its mark especially on the young people.

The first sign is in the job market. Before 2006 about 10 000 young professionals from the mainland found jobs in Hong kong. At the same time around 240 000 Hong Kong residents had worked or were working on the mainland. More than 60 percent of them were aged 23 to 25 according to official statistics.

Geng Chun 26 a native of northern China managed to start his own IT business after completing his university degree in Hong Kong three years ago.

“I like Hong Kong ” Geng said. “Hong Kong needs us. We’re young well-educated and energetic.”

Education is the next thing to change. After the return more people from both the mainland and Hong Kong began crossing the border to get an education.

According to China ’s Ministry of Education in 2006 914 Hong Kong students were admitted to mainland universities. In all 7060 studied in the mainland that year. Before that time Hong Kong students were rarely seen in mainland schools.

There was a growth on the other side as well. In the early 1990s about 100 mainland students went to Hong Kong every year to study. Last year 1300 studied in Hong Kong universities.

Besides social and cultural changes in Hong Kong business exchanges between the mainland and Hong Kong have greatly increased.

 According to a Xinhua report by the end of 2006 the mainland’s total investment in Hong Kong had reached $40 billion since 1997 which makes up 57 percent of all investments to places outside the mainland.

“We have many clients from the mainland and actually they are becoming our biggest group of clients ” said Ho a manager for a Hong Kong PR company. “The mainland has provided our company with more business opportunities which are vital for our development.”

Ten Years Reshapes Hong Kong

(1)_______________	Putonghua is a.       a major (2)________________ in middle schools; b.       heard in street (3)____________________.
(4)_______________ Market	a.       Hong Kong employs about 10 000 young (5)________________ from the mainland . b.       More Hong Kong residents go to work on the mainland.
(6)_______________	More students from the mainland study in Hong Kong. The number was (7)____________ in 2006. Also more Hong Kong students go to the mainland for study.
(8)_______________ exchange	a.       From 1997 to 2006 the mainland altogether (9)_______________ $4 billion in Hong Kong. b.       The mainland has provided more business (10) ________________ for Hong Kong companies.

Answer 1

1. Language  2. subject  3. chatter  4.Job  5. professionals  6.Education  7.1 300   8. Business  9.invested  10. opportunities