问答题
Study the words in the box and choose the right word for each blank.
______ is the official language of Chinese.
A(n) ______ is a unit of length equal to one-hundredth of a meter.
A(n) ______ is 2.54 centimeters.
One ______ is 12 inches (about 30 centimeters).
A(n) ______ is a thousand million.
A phone that you can carry with you everywhere is a(n) ______.
If someone is a(n) ______ person of a group, he or she is similar to many members in that group.
If something is ______ to another, they are nearly the same.
Mandarin and English are ______ languages.
A boy is ______ while a girl is female.
Mandarin is simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese, involving a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is also referred to as the “northern dialect(s)”. Nowadays, Mandarin is in most cases referred to as standard Chinese.