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             The King has been making this journey for more than two decades, spending some two months of each year in the north and developing a special relationship with such groups as the Hmong, Lahu, Yao, Akha and Karen. Many among the hilltribes regard this relationship as something very special and concrete.
             “I love the King because when he came so did the water” Ja Phu, a Lahu living near the Burmese border, once told me. Life had been harsh for him, his eight children and two wives. Then, in 1980, the King initiated several linked projects which struck at the core problems faced by the villagers of Kae Noi.
             Ja Phu said total dependence on the rains was replaced by a 75,000-cubic metre dam personally engineered by His majesty-and stocked with fish for good measure. The surplus baskets of corn he now harvested could be sold to buy clothes for the family. And if the harvest, nonetheless, proved too meagre he could borrow rice and seeds from the village “rice bank”.
            Before, one or two of his cows, pigs and chickens would die each die each year from disease, he explained, and the children grew up illiterate and largely ignorant of the world beyond the village fields. A veterinarian now comes around to vaccinate the livestock. Two of his children attend a new elementary school just across the road from his house while a third is getting a higher level of education at a town which earlier had seemed a universe away.

1. The King has been visiting the hilltribes for more than _____________.
    1. two years           2. twenty years
    3. two months                4. twenty months
2. The special relationship between the King and the hilltribe groups means  ____________.
    1. the King has given them much help
    2. the people are still in great need of water
    3. the hilltribesmen enjoy meeting important people
    4. the King has visited the people even in faraway places
3. The core problems of the villagers have to do with _______________.
    1. material needs and illiteracy
    2. the world beyond the village fields
    3. insufficiency of food and water
    4. health, education, and family size
4. “The surplus of corn” (line 11) means ______________.
    1. the extra amount of corn beyond family consumption
    2. the amount of corn loaned from the bank
    3. the amount of corn used to barter for clothes
    4. the amount of corn harvested very early in the season
5. The title of the passage is ______________.
    1. The King’s Visits among the Hilltribes
    2. The Problems Faced by the Hilltribes
    3. The King and the Hilltribes
    4. The Hilltribes and their Dream and Hope

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