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In Australia, when a customer telephones for a taxi, their details are typed in and the computer matches these details with ________ of the taxis out in the suburbs．

A.
this
B.
those
C.
that
D.
these

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Australia warns on migrant cuts

Australia may cut the number of immigrants who are allowed into the country if the global financial crisis raises unemployment levels.

Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans said a decision on reducing numbers would be taken after mid-year financial data is published next month.

Around 190, 300 immigrants are forecast to arrive in Australia in 2008/09. Earlier this month, a British minister said the country could reduce migrant flows due to the economic crisis. Mr Evans said the country's current migrant programme, which is aimed at skilled workers, was designed when Australia was forecasting good economic growth and a skills shortage.

"The government will take a calm look at those issues and make a decision when we have got proper information," he told Nine Network television.

"Clearly if the demand for labour comes off, you'd adjust the migration programme appropriately," he said. "We can turn the taps off if we need to. " Mr Evans said that any decision on cutting migrant flows was complex, considering their contribution to the country's economy. "We know that they consume, they buy property, and they're a net positive to the budget, " he said. "And a lot of the skills that are coming in at the moment are in the mining sector, which has allowed us to increase our exports. "

He said there were still industries which had a "strong demand" for labour and the government would analyse the economic situation and consult industry before deciding on what to do.

Which of the following can we know from this passage?

A. Australia may decide to increase the number of migrants.

B. Britain has decided to reduce the number of migrants.

C. Australia has decided to increase the number of migrants.

D. Britain has decided to increase the number of migrants.

2. Australia may cut off the number of migrants mainly because ______ .

A. Britain has decided to reduce the number of migrants

B. it is forecast Australian will have good economic growth

C. Australia has no demand for skilled workers in mining

D. the global economic crisis is getting worse and worse

3. What does Mr Evans imply by saying the underlined sentence?

A. It is necessary for the country to cut off the number of migrants.

B. Citizens should turn off the taps when they don’t use the water.

C. Britain shouldn’t have reduced the number of migrants.

D. Increasing migrants to the country will consume more water.

4. From the passage, what does Mr Evans think of migrants’ contributions to Australia’s economy?

A. Negative B. Doubtful C. Positive D. Critical

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

A CLASS OF THEIR OWN

Name : Susan Lane Age : 22 Place : Reykjavik , Iceland , 1994.

Cost : $7 ,000 Organization : AFS

Experience : “ I think it was a turning point in my life . I began to understand more about

my own culture by experiencing another culture and seeing how other people live.”

Name : Sara Small Age : 23 Place : Crivitz , Germany , 1996.

Cost : $8,000 Organization : EF Foundation

Experience : “I love the traveling and I made a lot of friends . I found the European school

system to be hard but I am fluent now in German so it was worth it . I did miss my family

and friends in Australia but I would love to do it again .”

Name : Leanne Smythe Age : 20 Place : Minnesota , America , 1994 .

Cost : $6, 000 Organization : Southern Cross Culture Exchange

Experience : “I learnt how to be really responsible . It was great to be on my own and I got

on really well with the family I was with . I will definitely go back some day .”

Name : David Links Age : 16 Place : Stuttgart , Germany , 1996

Cost : $6,000 Organization : Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

Experience : “I wanted to try something that was very different from Australia in culture .

In Germany everything was different but I soon got settled . The family I was with were

great and I really feel as though I have a second family .”

Name : Tom Jennings Age : 21 Place : Conflans , France , 1995.

Cost : $7,000 Organization : Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

Experience : “There were times when it was difficult but I liked it , experiencing a different

culture. You just have to play each situation as it comes. If there is one thing you learn

when you are on a student-exchange program it is how to take care of yourself.”

Name : Linda Marks Age : 19 Place : Chonburi Province , Thailand , 1994

Cost : $3,500 Organization : Rotary International

Experience : “It’s like a roller-coaster ride , there are lots of ups and downs , but you always

come back for more . I had a few problems but there was always someone to turn to and

that was great .”

The students who refer to both the good time and the bad time include ______.

A．Susan Lane and Sara Small B．Linda Marks and David Links

C．Tom Jennings and Linda Marks D．Leanne Smythe and Tom Jennings

The writing above would probably be ______.

A．the records of students’ activities

B．the foreign students’ name cards

C．the notice about a visit to foreign countries

D．the advertisement from an international travel service

The student who values learning another language is ______.

A．Linda Marks B．Sara Small C．Tom Jennings D．Leanne Smythe

How many students mention the culture difference they have experienced ?

A. Three . B．Four . C．Five . D．Six .

Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) 36  of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she   37   hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men  38  the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was,   39  they could get the money they had seen.    40   , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers   41  a small amount of cash from the mother and left.
Because the  42  is still under investigation, local police aren’t saying   43  else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers   44   the girl in the past.
Two other   45  were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was   46  . The robbers left peacefully after   47  that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the  48   that had appeared in the photo.
Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to 49   citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites  50   doing so. The police say it is  51   that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address,    52   that the robbers knew the girl in another way.    53  , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have    54  such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that   55  the girl’s name.

If you go to Brisbane, Australia, you can easily get a small book called Discover Brisbane free. The book tells you almost everything in Brisbane: the restaurants, the shops, the cinemas, the streets, the buses, the trains, the banks, etc. Here is something about banks on page 49:
ANZ Banking Group
Cnr.Greek &Queen Sts ……………… 228 3228
Bank of New Zealand
410 Queen Street ……………………… 221 0411
Bank of Queensland
229 Elizabeth Street …………………… 229 3122
Commonwealth Banking Group
240 Queen Street ……………………… 237 3111
National Australia Bank Ltd
225 Adelaide Street …………………… 221 6422
Westpac Banking Corp
260 Queen Street ……………………… 227 2666
Banking hours are Mon.-Thu. 9:30 am to 4 pm. Fri. 9:30 am to 5 pm. All banks close Sat. Sun. &Public Holidays.
Australia has a decimal currency(十进币制) with 100 cents to the dollar.
Notes available are: $100, $50, $20, $10, $5
Gold coins are: $2 && $1
Silver coins are: 50, 20, 10&&5 cent
Copper coins are: 2 && 1 cent
【小题1】 You can find ANZ Banking Group on ______.

A．Queen Street	B．Elizabeth Street
C．the corner of Greek Street and Queen Street
D．the corner of Queen Street and Elizabeth Street

【小题2】 ______ seems to be the most important street in Brisbane.

【小题3】On Saturdays, you can go to ______ to put your money in or take your money out.

A．ANZ Banking Group	B．Bank of Queensland
C．National Australia Bank Ltd	D．no bank

【小题4】 In Australia, the banks have their longest service h

Sydney—A shark savaged a schoolboy’s leg while he was surfing with his father at a beach in Sydney on February 23. It was the third shark attack along the coast of Australia’s largest city in a month.

The 15yearold boy and his father were in the water off Avalon, on Sydney’s northern beaches, around dawn when he was attacked. The city’s beaches are packed with locals and tourists during the summer months.

“The father heard a scream and turned to see his son thrashing (激烈扭动) about in the water,” police said. “Fortunately, the shark swam away and the boy was helped to the shore by his father.”

Lifesaving Club spokesman Nick Miller said, “It got him around the top of his left leg and the father came and dragged him out of water.” He said the boy was bleeding heavily when he was brought to the shore. “There was a lot of pain, as you can imagine.” The teenager was airlifted to hospital for treatment for leg injuries.

Police said the bites “cut through to the bone”, but the boy did not appear to have sustained any fractures (骨折). He was in a stable condition now.

Several beaches were closed after the attack. Water police and lifeguards were searching for the shark, while police hoped to identify its species by the shape of the bite marks. But they said it was too early to say what type of shark attacked the boy. “I don’t even know if he saw it,” Miller said.

Many shark species live in the waters off Sydney’s beaches, but attacks on humans are still relatively rare. However, there were two attacks on successive days earlier this month, one on a navy diver in Sydney harbor，not far from the famous Opera House, and the other on a surfer at the city’s worldfamous Bondi beach.

Fishermen say shark numbers are on the rise. There is a ban on commercial fishing in the harbor, which has increased fish stocks. Marine experts also claim environmental protection has created a cleaner environment, attracting sharks closer to the shore as they chase fish. Many shark species, including the Great White—the maneaters made famous in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws—are protected in Australian waters.

1.The report mainly tells us________.

A．shark attacks on humans are on the rise

B．sharks attacked humans three times in one month

C．a boy was attacked by a shark at a Sydney beach

D．shark numbers are increasing in the waters off Sydney’s beaches

2. The underlined word “savaged” in the first paragraph probably means “_____”.

A．attracted B．dragged C．bit D．packed

3. What do we know about the city of Sydney from the passage?

A．It is one of the largest cities in Australia.

B．Sydney harbor is not far from the famous Opera House.

C．There are many locals and tourists on its coast all the year round.

D．There are few shark species in the waters off Sydney’s beaches.

4. About the injury of the boy we know that________.

A．he was losing much blood when he was dragged out

B．he was very nervous when he was sent to hospital

C．he may be in danger of losing his leg

D．he was injured in the right leg

5. All the following are the causes of Australia’s sharks’ increasing except that___.

A．environmental protection has created a cleaner environment

B．a ban on commercial fishing has increased fish numbers

C．many shark species are protected in Australian waters

D．the film Jaws has made the Great White famous

In Australia, when a customer telephones for a taxi, their details are typed in and the computer matches these details with ________ of the taxis out in the suburbs．

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