Why has Australia always been a continent with few people?（）A、Because Australia is too far away from Europe.B、Because Australia is the least mountainous and most level of the world.s continents.C、Because Australia is separated from the rest of the world b

A.fond

B.concerned

C.keen

D.interested

Interviewer-------- Why is English so important?

David------- Well, English is so important primarily because so many people speak it and use it, so it has now become the lingua franca in the world in a way that we’ve never seen before. We’ve never had a world language of this kind before. So people are learning it not just to be able tocommunicate with native speakers, but also with speakers of other language around world.

Interviewer-------And why has it become that dominant language?

David------I think the reason for that is actually very complicated, although in the twentieth century, we can just see that it’s the rise of the US military and consumer power. I mean the technology, all the big developments in technology largely came from the US. So all of these developments actually were produced within the English language, and people had to learn English in order to understand them, or to benefit from them. The Internet is only one example of that kind. Once a language has got into that position of dominance, it’s actually very different to shift it. So we could be seeing the emergence of other big languages in the world becoming more important than they have been, like Spanish, but it’s unlikely that they’re going to shift the English from its position of dominance.

36. English is important, according to David, __________________________. A). because it has become a world language B). because so many people speak and use it C). because a lot of people are learning it D). because it is the lingua franca

37. English has become the dominant language in the world________________________. A). because it has always been the way B). for a reason that is very complicated C). only in the 20th century D). for no reasons

38. English became the dominant language in the 20th century_________________________. A). in the USA

B). because of the increase in American consumer power

C). because developments in technology came mainly from USA. D). all over the world.

39. People had to learn English______________________.

A). because developments in technology were made by English speakers B). because they needed to understand the new developments in technology C). to use the Internet

D). to speak with native Americans

40. David thinks that__________________________.

A). it will be easy for another language to become dominant B). English will not always be the dominant language

C). it will not be easy for another language to become dominant D). English will be the dominant language

此题为判断题(对，错)。

C

Australia has a lot of lovely animals. You cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The most famous ones are kangaroos（袋鼠）and koalas（树袋熊）.

The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They don’t walk, they jump. They use their strong back legs. They can jump at 74 kilometres per hour. They can go over nine metres in one jump.Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm.

Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year ? There are too many of them.There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That’s more than the number of people in the country.Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough food to eat. They break into farms for food. Farmers are very angry with them.

The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from gum trees（桉树）.Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark their home—“ This is my place, you can’t come in !” Like kangaroos, a koala baby lives in its mother’s pouch, too.

66. If we want to see kangaroos and koalas in natural forests, we can go to ________ .

A. China B. France C. Australia

most of australia’s unique plants and animals are imported from other continents. ()

Australia is the world's smallest continent and largest island, a relatively young nation established in an ancient land. Its development represents a triumph(胜利)over remoteness and a harsh landscape.

It is generally accepted that Australia's original inhabitants, the aboriginal(土著的)people, have lived on the continent for 40,000 to 60,000 years. They were also its sole(唯一的)human inhabitants until two centuries ago. Indonesian traders probably visited Australia's northwest but it was unknown to the rest of the world until the 1600s. A huge south land appeared on maps before 200 AD but its existence was not confirmed until the 17th century when Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch merchants ventured into Asia.

The first European settlement of the continent--by the British--began in 1788, on the site now occupied by Sydney, Australia's largest city. There were then about 1500 Europeans and an estimated 300,000 aboriginal people in Australia. The population has reached 2.25 million by 1881, 5.41 million by 1921 and 7.4 million by the end of World War II(1945). It increased sharply, partly because of a large postwar immigration program, and reached more than 17 million in 1991, despite a decline that began in the 1970s in the natural increase and net immigration. The rate of population increase in the 40 years after world war II, about two percent, has halved.

Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, with about 70 percent of the population living in the 10 largest cities. Australians have a high standard of living by world standards. The flag of Australia is the only one to fly over a whole continent in the world. The small Union Jack represents the historical link with Britain, the largest star has six points for each of the states and one point for the territories, and the small stars form. the Southern Cross - a prominent of the southern hemisphere night sky.

1. The passage is written to _____.

A. present a general picture of Australia

B. persuade people to travel in Australia

C. tell people the history of Australia

D. describe the characteristic of Australia

2. The first sentence in paragraph 1 mainly suggests that _____.

A. Australia is a strange country

B. it is not easy to find Australia

C. Australia has contradictory(矛盾的)features

D. Australia is a continent and a country as well

3. Which statement about Australia's population can NOT be inferred? _____

A. The population change is a gradual increase.

B. The population increased rapidly for a time owing to the government's special policy.

C. The rates of population increase in different periods varied.

D. The rate of population increase before World War II was about one percent.

4. The word urbanized means _____.

A. of towns or cities

B. of emergency

C. of suburbs

D. of the countryside

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true? _____

A. The large star on the flag of Australia has seven points.

B. People were certain of Australia's existence before 200 AD because it had appeared on maps.

C. Australia enjoy relatively high standard of living compared with people in other countries.

D. The aboriginal people of Australia were its only human inhabitants before the 18th century.

此题为判断题(对，错)。

Where is the woman from?

A. Japan.

B. England.

C. Australia.