Unit5 Canada — The True
North
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True or False 1. China is over 7,000 kilometres from
east to west. False China is about 5,000 kilometres from east to west.
7. He has a gift for communication, so he managed to mix with all kinds of people in his job.
8. As far as I know, there is a bank within a hundred metres of the bus stop.
LD: Canada, however, has nothing like China’s southern island of Hainan. While it is snowing and freezing in Mohe in north China on the Chinese-Russian border, people nearly 5,500 kilometres south in Hainan can sit on the beach in the sunshine.
LQ: China has many of the highest mountains in the world. They’re in the west of the country, as they are in Canada, but China has more mountains where many great rivers begin.