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Given Australia"s size and the fact that early settlements were far apart, Australian society is remarkably
homogeneous (同种的). Its citizens are fundamentally prosperous and the way of life in the major cities and
towns is much the same however many miles divide them. It takes a sharp ear to identify regional accents.
However, there is some difference in lifestyle between city dwellers and the country people. Almost 90
per cent of the population lives in the fast-paced cities along the coast and has little more than a passing
familiarity with the desert. The major cities preserve pockets of colonial heritage, but the overall impression
is modern, with new buildings reflecting the country"s youth. In contrast, the rural communities tend to be
slow-moving and conservative. For many years, Australia was said to have"ridden on the sheep"s back", a
reference to wool being the country"s main money earner. However, the wool industry is no longer dominant.
Much of Australia"s relatively sound economy is now achieved from natural coal and wheat, and by being the
largest diamond producer in the world. Newer industries such as tourism and wine making are also
increasingly important. Australians are generally friendly and relaxed, with a self-deprecating sense of humor.
On the whole, Australia is a society without hierarchies (等级制度), an attitude generally held to stem from
its prisoner beginnings.
Yet, contrary to widespread belief, very few Australians have true prisoner origins. Within only one
generation of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia had become a nation of immigrants. Originally
coming almost entirely from the British Isles, today one in three Australians comes from elsewhere.
Australia"s liberal postwar immigration policies led to an influx of survivors from war-torn Europe, most
notably Greeks, Italians, Poles and Germans.
The emphasis has shifted in recent years and today the majority of new immigrants are from Southeast
Asia. Today Australia is a "blend of nations" and although some racism exists, it has generally been a
successful experiment and the country is justifiably proud to have one of the most harmonious multicultural
communities in the world.
the first paragraph?
B. You have to practice a lot to learn to understand the different accents.
C. The Australian regional accents are very difficult to understand indeed.
D. There is not much difference between the accents in different areas of Australia.
B. The Australian economy is dependent on sheep exports.
C. The majority of people living in Australia come from Europe.
D. The pace of life is different in the city and in the country.
B. Australia"s recent immigration policy encourages immigrants from Southeast Asia
C. immigrants from Southeast Asia have brought racial problems
D."riding on sheep"s back" resulted in slow development in rural communities
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试题【阅读理解。 Given Australia"s size and the fact that early settlements were far ap】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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remarkable pictures. Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned
creatures are opening up vistas (远景) by taking cameras where no human can go.
This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by
the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all.
Since its debut (首次公开露面) in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices
developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful.
"It"s more than just a camera now," said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who
invented the Crittercam."We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time
The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr. Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark
apporoached him. When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly. He
came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the
shark"s behavior without disturbing it.
Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land
animals.
Birds are a new addition, Mr.Marshall said. Dr. Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras
called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific. It has discovered that crows are smarter than
anyone knew they not only use twigs (嫩枝) and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their
favorite tools to use again.
Tracey L.Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam
was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals (豹斑海豹) in Antarctica. "In studying animals," Dr.
Rogers said at the meeting,"you want to see how our animal models align (与……一致) with reality. With a
camera, you actually see what they do. You don"t have to guess."
A. The advantages of crittercam.
B. The development of Crittercams in the past 20 years.
C. How crittercam was invented.
D. How crittercam works.
B. The thought of how to photograph animals better.
C. Noticing a shark eating a sucker fish on a dive.
D. Seeing a shark with a camera on its belly on a dive.
B. is the most powerful tool in studying animals
C. enabled her to observe the crows in the South Pacific closely
D. helped a lot with her research on leopard seals in Antarctica
B. more instruments are involved to gather more data
C. they allow researchers to see where and how animals live
D. they are able to be applied to smaller animals such as birds
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1 The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas- 2 These legends are useful
because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could write down
what they did. Anthropologists(人类学家) wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples
now living in the Pacific Islands came from. 3
But the first people who were like ourselves lived so long ago that even their sagas, if they had any, are
forgotten. 4
Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, because this is easier to shape than other kinds.
5 Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who
made them have disappeared without trace.
B. descriptions of what important events happened in ancient times.
C. But there are some parts of the world where even now people can"t write.
D. legends handed down from one generation of story-tellers to another.
E. So scientists have neither history nor legends to help them to find out where the first "modern men"
came from.
F. But there is some doubt who began to write.
G. The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.
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to reduce traffic problems. The poor areas of the city were so crowded with people. So the officials decided
to make it possible for workers to live outside of London and travel easily to work each day. If people had a
convenient way to get to and from work, they would live outside of the city and this would help reduce the
pressure. From these problems, the idea of the London Underground was born.
The plans for building the Underground met with several problems, but the first track was finally opened in
January,1863. A steam train pulled the cars along the first underground track which was six kilometers long.
About 30,000 people got on the subway the first day. They were treated to comfortable seats and pleasant
decorations inside the cars. However, the smoke from the engine soon filled the air in the tunnels. Fans had to
be put in the tunnel later to keep the air clean enough for people to breathe. Even with its problems, riding the
Underground did become popular. It carried nine million riders in its first year.
Modem subways have come a long way since the early days of the London Underground.
Today there are more than one hundred underground systems around the world. Shopping malls built in
traffic stations have helped the popularity of subways. Nowadays many stations include underground
department stores, supermarkets and restaurants. Shoppers never have to go above ground!
_____________________________________________________________________
2. What does "Shoppers never have to go above ground!"(in Para 3) mean? (within 10 words)
______________________________________________________________________
3. Which sentence can be replaced by the following one: "Although there were such prolems,
people loved to take subways."
______________________________________________________________________
4. What problems led the British government to build the London Underground? (within 10 words)
______________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
_______________________________________________________________________
English.
BBC is the abbreviation of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is an organization maintained by the
government, providing British people with broadcasting and TV service. At first, BBC was established as a
private business. It began to broadcast on February 14, 1922. In 1927, it was reorganized and replaced by
the British Broadcasting Corporation. In November, 1936, it became the first TV broadcasting corporation
in the world with TV programmes broadcast. BBC provides people with the latest news, entertainment and
education. These programmes are not under the control of the government. Nor are they affected by other
organizations. In the meantime, BBC does not express its own opinion on international affairs or public
policy. BBC has two TV channels, covering the whole country, that is BBC-1 and BBC-2 and three radio
broadcast webs, one for family service, another for entertaining programmes, the third for special interesting
programmes. The third web broadcasts four programmes. They are classical music, teaching programmes,
sports and famous arts and common knowledge. BBC programmes include foreign language programmes,
broadcast in 35 foreign languages.
The BBC World Service sends radio programmes around the world in 42 languages. With a regular
audience of about 140 million listeners, it reaches more people than any other ternational broadcaster. The
World Service also prepares news programmes for its sister television organization and is responsible for
a major new gathering service getting information form the world"s media. The World Service receives a
direct grant from the British Parliament for operating international broadcasting.
BBC English is part of the BBC World Service. BBC English is for people who want to improve their
English. It broadcasts all kind of programmes, which change from month to month. There is a special
grammar programme for explaining difficult grammar points. There are programmes about life in Britian.
There is also a programme about the differences between written and spoken English. English lessons are
broadcast every day on the radio with explanations in English and other languages. They are the easiest to
follow. For example, BBC English broadcasts programmes for China with explanations in Chinese.
It is not difficult to find out information about the programmes. You can write to BBC English and ask
for any information you need.
It is necessary to use a short-wave radio to pick up the programmes. Sometimes it is difficult to receive
them clearly. If you do have difficulties, it is better to try once again another day.
B. which change regularly
C. in special grammar rules
D. by explaining different grammar points
B. get it easily by paying something
C. hardly get it without paying anything
D. seldom get it just by writing a letter
B. BBC English has many great useful programmes
C. You can use all the programmes from BBC English
D. All programmes from BBC English are very useful for me
a window to the world. Haibao, the mascot, will guide you around the Expo Park.
B. The second floor.
C. The third floor.
D. The top floor.
B. It is the largest national pavilion.
C. People can see 60,000 seeds here.
D. All the seeds are from the UK.
B.A pavilion painted in green.
C. A pavilion with more sunshine.
D. A pavilion with cleaner air.
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