Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）

Australia is almost as large as China（China is about 9,600,000 km2 while Australia is 7,682,300 km2）,but Australia has a much smaller population（just over 19. 5 million）. Most people live in cities along the coast of Australia, and huge areas of the rest of Australia are uninhabited（无人居住的）. In some areas, families live a long way away from one another and from towns and cities. Australians call this part of the country "the Out back（内陆）"or "the Bush". Most people who live in the outback work on huge sheep or cattle stations（农场）.Some of these properties are as large as 3,000~5,000 km2 and their nearest neighbours may be 100 km or more away.

Many children in the outback are too far from town to travel to school. Instead, they attend one of the sixteen Schools of the Air. The schools are located in towns and teachers use high frequency radio to talk to their classes. They also post work to the students who post it back for their teacher to mark. Students also use the Internet, fax and phone to communicate with their teacher and with other students. Sometimes students are sent a video or audiotape to help them with their lessons.

Tim Benton's brother George is the manager of a large cattle station in the Northern Territory. When they were in primary school, George's children, Rebecca and Oliver, attended the Alice Spring School of the Air. Their mother and father took it in turns to help them with their lessons. After they finished primary school, Rebecca and Oliver went to a high school in Alice Springs. They lived with their Aunt Mary during the school term and returned home during the school holidays. At first, high school was difficult because they weren't used to being in a class with other students. In some subjects, they did not know as much as the children from the town. However, they soon caught up because they had very good study skills, thanks to the School of the Air.

1.Where do most Australians live?

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2.Where did Rebecca and Oliver live when they attended primary school?

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3.Where did they live when they attended high school?

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4.Which subjects do you think would be hardest to study at home?

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5.Why do you think Rebecca and Oliver had such good study skills?

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6.When Rebecca and Oliver were in high school, why did they only go home in the school holidays?

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Writing（作文）

Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic "The Most Attractive Story I Have Read".（以“我读过的最具吸引力的故事”为题，写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。）（注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。）

Use the following points as a reference.（以下内容仅供参考。）

* What's the most attractive story you have read? What' it about?

* Why do you like it?

* How does it influence your life?

The Most Attractive Story I Have Read

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Which of the following underlined parts is pronounced differently from the others?

A.The owner of the house is from France.

B.A row of children are standing in front of the chairs.

C.Can you take down the picture from the wall?

D.You can borrow money from the bank to buy your new house.

The students were in good order when they went into the meeting hall, _______ at _______ time.

A.two, a B.two, / C./, one D.one, the

We’ll start our journey _______ the morning of December 15.

A.in B.by C.on D.at

Beijing is such a wonderful place that I will stay for _______ two days.

A.the others B.the other C.other D.another

More than _______ students went to the streets to raise some money for the poor.

A.hundreds of B.two hundreds C.two hundred of D.two hundred

A fishing trip often begins in the _______ afternoon.

A.later B.late C.lately D.latest

Taking an underground is _______ than taking a bus in Shanghai.

A.fast and convenient B.faster and more convenient

C.fast and more convenient D.faster and much convenient

The _______ movie we watched yesterday made us _______.

A.frightened, frightened B.frightening, frightening

C.frightening, frightened D.frightened, frightening