Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 39 to 43.
Chang is thrilled. He’s going home for the spring festival and he can’t wait to see his family again. The last time he saw his parents and his brother was a year ago.
Chang is a twenty-two-year-old worker in a Chinese shoe factory. He left his parents’ farm two years ago and came to work in the city. At first, he found city life terrifying and he missed his family desperately. But he was earning money for the first time in his life, and it felt wonderful. He wants to help his parents to build a house in his home village.
Life in the Chinese countryside can be hard, so millions of young people leave and go to the cities to look for work. Migrant workers like Chang built the amazing stadium for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. They also pulled down the old buildings in the city and built the enormous modern office and apartment buildings.
Chang starts work at 8.30 A.m. That isn’t so bad - on the farm he started work at 6.30 A.m. But work at the factory finishes at midnight, so he is always exhausted. He sleeps in a freezing room with eleven other men in a building next to the factory.
‘I don’t really want to go back to the countryside,’ says Chang. ‘But I don’t want to stay in the factory either. I’m learning to use a computer because I want a job in an office. I want to have a better life in the future.’
