Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. ___________ Often the nearest neighbors are several hundred kilometers away.

The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a telephone. _________

When this radio first came into use the Australia government set up a special two - way radio program. ___________They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill, and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.

Since the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities far away.

Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbors. The radio kept families in touch with each other. _________The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.

A. They could talk about who was going away or who was sick.

B. A person can listen to someone else’s talk and then give an answer.

C. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America.

D. Then, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor hundreds of kilometers away.

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5.From this passage, we can infer that .

A.people can live everywhere in Australia

B.children don’t go to school in Australia

C.doctors use the radio to cure(治疗) sick persons

D.the two - way radio is very important to people on the large farm

My sister Allie and I have been trying to get people to stop dropping cigarette butts (烟头) for seven years.

One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. ________ They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts. We called it “No Butts about It”.

At first, we drew pictures with “The Earth Is Not Your Ashtray (烟灰缸)” written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads.

We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts does harm to the environment. Most smokers don’t think that dropping butts harms the earth. _________

Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays to give smoker.

We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn’t have to drop butts. At the moment, we are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. _________

Many people he started to join our group since it began. ________ And there are even groups in England, Australia and India!

Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for our good work. ________ We just want to make the earth a better and cleaner place for animals, plants and people.One day it will be.

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使短文意思通顺、内容完整,并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。

A. Some companies would like to do it.

B. But we are not interested in prizes.

C. Today there are 45 other “No Butts about It” groups in America.

D. They made the ground dirty.

E. But it does! And so does all rubbish.

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