Read the following text and choose the best sentence from A to E below to fill in each of the gaps in the text. China’s miracle economy can come at you in a lot of ways. By now most of us know that China is the factory floor of choice for the world’s low-road manufacturing. 1) __________But moving up the technological ladder, China has also become the world’s largest maker of consumer electronics, like TVs and cellphones. More recently, China is climbing even higher still, moving into biotech and high-tech computer manufacturing. No country has ever made a better run at climbing every step of economic development all at once. Behind China’s rapid economic ascendancy over the last 25 years is the basic fact of China’s huge population. 2) __________ Since economic refrom began in 1978, the Chinese have started tens of millions of businesses. The number of Chinese who have left farms and now trawl the cities for work probably exceeds the entire work force of the United States. China is not home to the cheapest work force in the world. 3) __________ In the world’s miserable corners, children carry rifles and walk mine fields for less than a dollar a day. China is the world’s workshop because it sits in a relatively stable region and offers manufacturers a reliable, pliant and capable industrial work force, groomed by generations of government-enforced discipline. The other great contributing factor is the migration of hundreds of millions of peasants from the countryside now that the government makes it easier for them to leave. 4) __________ The plots allotted to farm families are on average 1.2 acres but can be as small as an eighth of acre; in hundreds of millions of cases these farms fail to generate enough money for a family. Average city incomes, according to the Chinese government, are $1,000 a year, which is three times what they are in the countryside. 5) __________ By 2010, nearly half of all China’s people will live in urban areas. A. Indeed, the country’s embrace of market economy over the last decade and the government’s insistence that farmers fend for themselves are combining forces to all. B. It assembles more toys, stitches more shoes and sews more garments than any other nation in the world. C. That disparity has set in motion the largest human migration in history. D. Even at 25 cents an hour, Chinese workers cost more than laborers in the poorer countries of Southeast Asia or Africa. E. China is home to 1.3 billion people and has over 100 cities of more than a million people