IV. Reading Comprehension Passage 1        Since the early twentieth century, the grocery shop has played an important role inChinese settlers’ immigration into the Caribbean region. Family-based grocery shops servedas an ideal place for the Chinese settlers to sustain their connectedness and self-sufficiency.Families usually lived behind the shops； wives and children worked as helpers； and familymembers shared food to decrease living costs. Most shops contained bars and restaurants,providing a space for gossip and social exchanges, enabling the immigrants to mingle withthe local people.        The Chinese could shelter their clannish, distinct traits within the domain of groceryshops as they received protection and enrichment from the home and shop. Indeed, most ofthese earliest migrants came from the same provinces in southern China, identified as“Hakka” or “the Guest People,” who were known to be industrious and thrifty and whoserenowned adaptability was regarded as ideal for contract labor in a similar climate such asthe Caribbean.
【題組】31. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
(A) The grocery shop exemplifies an ideal space for the Chinese immigrants inthe Caribbean to live on their own.
(B) The Chinese immigrants often hired local people as helpers in the groceryshop.
(C) Chinese women and children were reluctant to help with work in thegrocery shop.
(D) The earliest Chinese settlers depended mostly on financial help fromrelatives in China.
(E) Early Chinese settlers usually lived far from the place where they worked.