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2. Read the text and do the tasks below (9points).
A company in Japan is selling a new drink. Their new drink is a powerful mixture of
powered ginseng root, a fungus from the skin of caterpillars and reptile's blood. This strange
drink, people say, is helping Chinese women athletes to win gold medals at international athletics
meetings. The Japanese firm says that this mixture can do wonderful things for ordinary people
too.
Mr. Ma Junwen is the trainer of the Chinese women's athletics team. He created the recipe for
this peculiar cocktail of roots and fungus and blood specially for the team. His runners train in
the mountains of central China. They run 30 or 40 kilometres every day, so they are all very
strong runners. But they all drink Ma's cocktail every day too and they are winning more
medals nowadays than they did before. And Mr. Ma is trying to market his odd mixture through
the company in Japan. People in Japan know about Ma's runners and they are rushing to buy a
bottle of his amazing drink.
So Mr. Ma is winning, too, not only runners. Before he invented his drink, he was not a rich
man, but now he is making a lot of money from the drink, and people in Japan love it!

A Write down whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1. Mr. Ma is helping Japanese sportswomen.
2. This drink is a mixture consisting of different ingredients.
3. This mixture was created for sale.
4. Mr. Ma was a rich man before.
5. A Japanese company is now selling the drink in China.

B Answer the following questions.
1. Who is drinking Ma's mixture nowadays in Japan?
2. Who usually drinks it in China?
3. How many medals are Chinese women runners winning nowadays, with the help of Mr.
Ma's drink?
4. Why is Mr. Ma winning?