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Page 55 a) It is in China.

b) His name is Hai.

Page 56 a) Because she had no money.

1. She must work to get some money.

2. She liked cleaning and washing.

Page 57 a) Mrs Huang.

1. She cleaned Mrs Huang's house and washed the

Huang

family's clothes.

1. Yes.

Page 59 a) False.

1. False.

2. True.

Page 61 a) The old woman was hungry and tired.

1. Happy ate his rice with chopsticks.

2. The old woman ate plums.

Page 63 a) In the bowl.

1. To keep the plum stones.

2. In front of the temple.

Page 64 a) His teeth.

1. A beautiful pearl.

2. Yes, she was.

Page 65 a) She sold one pearl and put the other pearls in a box.

b) No, they did not.

Page 67 a) The King.

1. Because he still had some red paint in his tin.

2. He ran home to tell his mother.

Page 73 a) On the top of a mountain.

b) A beautiful rainbow.

Page 75 a) Pearls grow inside shellfish.

1. Oysters and clams have hard shells.

2. The shells are usually beautiful on the inside

and ugly on

the outside.

Page 76 a) Pearl divers carry agualun2s on their backs and wear

pearls.

masks on their faces.

1. Pearl divers dive into the water to look for

Page 77 a) In oyster beds.

1. Beads.

2. Cultured pearls.

Page 79 a) Expensive.

1. Rings, ear-nngs, bracelets and necklaces.

2. Queen Elizabeth the First of England.

Page 80 a) It weighs 6.37 kilograms.

1. In Palawaii in the Philippines.

2. No, it is not. Pages 82 - 83 ) It is in the stone.

1. Yes, hey do.

2. Plums, water and orange jelly powder.