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| A．minerals | B．agriculture | C．profitable | D．available | E．shortages | |
| F．celebrations | G．immigrants | H．increased | I．population | J．fashionable | K．opened |
Chinese traders were recorded as making voyages to the north coast of Australia from the 1750s，but were probably visiting Australia long before．Chinese men arrived in Australia in small numbers after the 1788British settlement as free settlers and criminals．A small population grew rapidly after 1848under a system of indentured（契约的）labour，after China had （41）K its ports to foreign trade in 1842．They worked in rural New South Wales as cooks，farm labourers and etc．
Indentured Chinese（42）G worked in all colonies variously as station hands，plantation workers，miners，on public works，cabinet makers，personal servants and in laundries．Most came from the south-eastern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian．
Due to labour （43）E in West Australia，the Colonial Government organized Chinese contract labour between 1847and 1898，most working as labourers，cooks and gardeners．Many Chinese people came from rural backgrounds and brought with them （44 ）B and water management skills．By 1885，there were 54Chinese market gardens in Sydney．By 1901，67% of New South Wales market gardeners were Chinese．
Gold rushes in Victoria in the 1850s and New South Wales in the 1860s significantly（45）H the population of Chinese immigrants in Australia； about 45，000prospectors arrived in Victoria alone in 1854-58．Numbers continued to increase as gold and other（46）A were discovered in Queensland，Northern Territory and Tasmania．
When mining became less（47）C，many Chinese people worked successfully to provide goods and services such as furniture making，market gardening，fishing and，particularly，store-keeping including the import and export of goods from overseas．Chinese goods，especially tea，silk，vegetables，herbs and other spices were highly sought after items of trade by non-Chinese people．Tea rooms，importing and selling many varieties of tea，were very popular．Chinese silk was turned into（48）G evening wear and cloaks by Chinese tailors and seamstresses．
Today there is a culturally diverse Chinese（49）I in Australia with links to south-eastern China as well as Vietnam and Hong Kong．The Chinese communities in Australia are brought together every year by（50）F of Lunar New Year．
