China Weekly News Quiz: March 28-April 4, 2021

1

Qingming is the fifth of 24 solar terms on the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. The beginning of this period also marks Qingming Festival, which fell on April 4 this year. What is the main activity on this festival?

Eating moon cakes
Visiting graves
Racing dragon boats
Making lanterns

1 / 7

2

The WHO on March 30 released a report on its joint study with Chinese experts on tracing COVID-19 origins in Wuhan. Among other areas, it studied the likelihood of a virus leak from a lab in the city. What did it say about this possibility?

Extremely likely
Likely
Unlikely
Extremely unlikely

2 / 7

3

Last week saw the emergence of locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in China. Which part of China?

Hubei Province, central China
Yunnan Province, southwest China
Sichuan Province, southwest China
Jiangsu Province, east China

3 / 7

4

China has made a major breakthrough in developing a 7nm GPGPU chip that could give a tough time to global leaders like U.S. companies Nvidia and AMD. What is the chip's name?

Big Wave
Big Flow
Big Island
Big Ocean

4 / 7

5

A festival of flowers shown in the picture above kicked off last week in Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, which has a 1,500-year history of cultivating the plant. What is the name of this flower?

Garden rose
Peony
Carnation
Chrysanthemum

5 / 7

6

China's FAST, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has opened to global scientists and began accepting observation applications on March 31. Before FAST, which of these was the world's largest radio telescope?

Arecibo Telescope, U.S.
Effelsberg Telescope, Germany
Lovell Telescope, UK
Gran Telescopio Canarias, Spain

6 / 7

7

China last year attracted $520.6 billion of foreign investment, up by 81 percent from 2019, according to a report released by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). What about outbound direct investment?

It maintained 2019 level
It doubled
It decreased by about a quarter
It almost halved

7 / 7

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