单选题 Shanghai is the largest city in China. About eleven million people make their homes in Shanghai and its suburbs (郊区). This enormous (巨大的) city spreads out along the banks of the Hoang Pu River, which flows into the mouth of the Yangtze River about fourteen miles north of here. Large oceangoing ships travel to Shanghai by way of the Yangtze and the Huang Pu.
Shanghai was a small, unimportant city until 1842 when China lost a war with Great Britain. Tile British realized that Shanghai was in an excellent location(位置) to serve as a seaport for the densely(密集) populated Yangtze River Plain. They forced the Chinese to allow English traders to settle on the wastelands outside the city walls. Later, French, American, and Japanese traders also came to Shanghai. The foreigners built whole new sections of Shanghai, including homes, stores, factories, and office buildings. Thousands of Chinese poured into Shanghai in search of jobs. Most of them settled in the old part of the city. As time passed, shanghai became one of the busiest seaports in the world.

单选题 According to this passage, the population inside the city of Shanghai is ______.

单选题 The Yangtze River is connected with ______.

单选题 Before 1842, the Yangtze River Plain was ______.

单选题 Which of the following countries does first settle on wastelands outside the city walls?

单选题 The Chinese people poured into Shanghai in search of jobs mainly lived in ______.