Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶)that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A. Go shopping B. Take a vacation

C. Join his family D. Find a house

2.What does the underlined word“restored”in the last paragraph mean?

A. Showed B. Gave back

C. Delivered D. Sent out

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Turning Trash to Treasure. B. Living in a a New Country.

C. From India to Australia. D. In Search of New Friends.

We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way, computer network system would keep on working all the time.

At first, the Internet was only used by government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals, and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still expensive and the Internet was difficult to become cheaper and easier to use. Scientists also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get-on-line and millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending e-mails is more and more popular among students.

The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people’s life.

1.The Internet has a history of ______ years.

A. more than 40 B. less than 30

C. more than 60 D. more than 50

2.Scientists set up a new network system to ______.

A. make the computer cheaper B. use the computer widely

C. make the computer go well D. develop new software

3.When did the Internet begin to be used in hospitals?

A. In the 1960s. B. In the 1970s.

C. In the 1980s. D. In the 1990s.

4.In the 1960s, if one computer in the network broke down, the whole network ______.

A. still worked B. stopped to work

C. stopped working. D. began to work

5.The best title of the passage is ______.

A. How to Surf the Internet

B. How to Use the Internet

C. When was the Internet set up

D. The History of the Internet

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