China set to become world's largest car maker

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China set to become world's largest car maker

China is set to become the world's largest automobile exporter for the first time. In the first quarter of this year, China surpassed traditional car-making giants Japan and Germany for the first time. Chinese manufacturers exported more than 1.06 million vehicles in the first quarter of 2023. In doing so, they overtook Japan's number of 1.05 million. China's car industry has made great strides in the past few years. Throughout the 2010s, it managed to produce around a million cars a year. That doubled to two million in 2021 and then tripled to three million a year later. China is forecast to more than quadruple production numbers from just four years ago to become the world's largest auto exporter.

China is becoming the world's largest manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs). Elon Musk's Tesla has a giant "gigafactory" in China. It has a capacity of 1.25 million vehicles a year, but is yet to reach maximum output. The plant exports a large volume of Tesla cars to Canada, Europe and Japan. However, Tesla is about to lose its crown as the world's largest EV maker to a Chinese company called BYD. Last month, BYD launched a compact EV called Seagull, with a starting price of $11,000. The top three countries that China exports cars to are Russia, the United States and Mexico. Exports to Russia have been boosted by Western countries imposing trade sanctions on Moscow.

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Vocabulary Match Paragraph One.

Became three times as much or as many.

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tripled

set

quarter

surpassed

vehicle

made great strides

quadruple

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One of four three-month periods of the financial year.

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quarter

set

surpassed

vehicle

made great strides

tripled

quadruple

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A thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, lorry, bus, etc.

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vehicle

set

quarter

surpassed

made great strides

tripled

quadruple

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Ready or likely to.

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set

quarter

surpassed

vehicle

made great strides

tripled

quadruple

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Increase or be increased fourfold.

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quadruple

set

quarter

surpassed

vehicle

made great strides

tripled

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Exceeded; was greater than.

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surpassed

set

quarter

vehicle

made great strides

tripled

quadruple

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Progressed or advanced a lot.

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made great strides

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vehicle

tripled

quadruple

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Vocabulary Matching Paragraph Two.

The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry.

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output

manufacturer

gigafactory

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compact

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The amount of something that something can produce.

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capacity

manufacturer

gigafactory

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crown

compact

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A small car.

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compact

manufacturer

gigafactory

capacity

output

crown

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A person or company that makes goods for sale.

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manufacturer

gigafactory

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crown

compact

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A really, really, really big building in which to make things.

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gigafactory

manufacturer

capacity

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crown

compact

sanctions

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Actions taken by countries to get another country to stop doing something or change its behaviour.

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sanctions

manufacturer

gigafactory

capacity

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compact

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The role of being the best at or top of something.

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crown

manufacturer

gigafactory

capacity

output

compact

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Multiple Choice

From the reading decide if the sentences are true or false.

China is set to be the world's leading car exporter again.

• True

• False

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China exported more than one million more cars than Japan in 2023.

• True

• False

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China quadrupled its car exports in 2023 from a year earlier.

• True

• False

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China's car exports will be four times bigger in 2023 than in 2019.

• True

• False

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Tesla said it would build its first "gigafactory" in China.

• True

• False

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Tesla will soon be overtaken as the world's leading EV manufacturer.

• True

• False

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A Chinese company has priced its electric car at $11,000.

• True

• False

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China's car exports to Russia went up because of trade sanctions.

• True

• False

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Synonym Match

• overtook

• makers

• predicted

• increase fourfold

• car

surpassed

manufacturers

forecast

quadruple

auto

• surpassed

• manufacturers

• forecast

• quadruple

• auto

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Synonym Match

• enormous

• production

• title

• small

• applying

giant

output

crown

compact

imposing

• giant

• output

• crown

• compact

• imposing

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