IV. Reading Comprehension (I)With the single-minded determination it once focused on ideological crusades, the government of Chinahas embarked on a crash program to develop a world-class semiconductor industry, using tax breaks, free land,and other incentives to attract foreign companies and know-how. Though primitive by the standards of the United States, Japan, or Taiwan, Chinese chipmaking has taken abig step in the last few years. A recent report by the U.S. General Accounting Office said several of China’sfactories using foreign capital and technology, are one “generation”or less behind the world’s leadingsemiconductor-makers. Chip technology undergoes a significant advance, entering a new generation, everytwo years. Chinese leaders are counting on foreign technology experts, such as Richard Chang, raised in Taiwan and educated in United States, to help them make the next leap. Under tight security in a cavernous building inShanghai’s Pudon district, employees of Chang’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. work in sterile “clean rooms,” producing silicon chips with circuits as narrow as 0.18 microns, barely one-thousandth   the diameter of a human hair. Chang’s $1.6 billion semiconductor factory, among the most advanced in China, makes semi-conductors for companies in Japan, the U.S., and Europe.
36. What does the first sentence of the second paragraph imply?
(A) China’s chipmaking technology has overtaken the U.S., Japan, ad Taiwan in the last few years.
(B) China’s chipmaking technology still lags behind the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan.
(C) China’s standard will become the world standard.
(D) China’s standard is comparable to the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan.