A

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If Sydney is called the New York of the South Pacific, then Melbourne can be called the London of the South Pacific.
    This is an ancient and beautiful "garden city". Streets are orderly planned and various buildings of both old and modern styles are harmoniously put together. There are many operas and Broadway musicals1 on show here every day.
    This is also the residential2 center for immigrants3 in Australia. Most of the immigrants live in Melbourne and Sydney. Immigrants start their new life here but keep their own traditions and customs. Do you want to taste Italian food and drinks? Just go to Lygon Street. Want to know more about Chinese culture? Then visit Chinatown. In Chinatown, you will find not only Chinese restaurants, but also Malaysian, Thai and Japanese restaurants. This is not just a window to China, but also a window to East and Southeast Asia.
    Goods sold in Chinatown are quite spe-cial. You’ll have a variety of choices at reasonable prices, and that’s why China-town is so popular with tourists. My friends all came back with large shopping bags, and were reluctant to leave until they bought too much to carry.
    Another thing which is worth mention-ing is that Melbourne is home to the smallest penguins in the world. In a place 140 kilometers south of Melbourne, there’s a tiny island called Philip Island. Early every evening, groups of penguins come back to their home on this island.

Notes:

1. musical n.音乐剧

2. residential adj.住宅的

3. immigrant n.移民；外侨

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Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.

1. Which of the following descriptions about Melbourne is NOT true?

A. It is quite like London in many ways.

B. There are operas and musicals on show in Melbourne.

C. It’s one of the two residential centers of Australia.

D. There is a great deal of greenery in the city.

2. According to the passage, in Melbourne ________.

A. Japanese food can be found in Chinatown

B. Chinese restaurants serve food from Asian countries

C. most tourists are Chinese

D. the author saw extremely lovely penguins

3. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. the author is Chinese

B. Chinese tea might be bought in Chinatown

C. Lygon Street is only for Italian food and drinks

D. the author had never seen penguins before

4. The underlined word "reluctant" may mean ________.

A. anxious B. Eager C. unwilling D. difficult
   

B

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We woke up on a very nice day. There was no wind at the airport. We started flying north and the trip was interesting.
    A bit further south we saw a few villages built out of mud, and in every walled place there was grass that had been harvested from the surrounding lands. There were people living on the edge, but they were doing it with dignity* and a spirit of looking forward, not backward. Yet they have fewer and fewer resources and they have more and more mouths to feed. Like so many places we have seen, this population is using up the capital of the natural resource base. They’re eating every plant right down to its roots and getting every bit of mineral and water from the land possible. Humans are humans, and there is one way to change this situation very quickly: start mining groundwater. In this aspect Chad (乍得)is still in great ecological condition compared to areas in the southwest of the United States where much of the fossil water has already been used to grow cotton, onions and so on. We have heard that there are more oil fields waiting to be put into production in Chad so the day may soon come. But now it is the time to take a serious look at the natural resource base here and start to push things in the right direction.

Note: dignity n.尊严

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Read the passage and choose the best answer for each question.

1. In the villages the author saw _____.
A. more and more people came to live in the villages

B. people began to get water from underground

C. the resources were hardly able to meet the villagers’needs

D. the villagers didn’t grow food for themselves

2. According to the passage, the author _____.

A. thought it wasn’t good to mine oil there

B. thought fossil water shouldn’t be used

C. worried about water resources

D. worried about what was being done in the southwestern US

3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Chad is planning to develop the oil industry.

B. There are few villages here.

C. The villages are developing fast.

D. The villagers have a lot of knowledge about nature.

C新题型

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请将标有A-G的段落或句子插入文章中1-5的位置,使这篇文章意思连贯,结构完整。选项中有两项是多余选项。

Two Wheels or Four?

What’s the furthest you have ever cycled? Perhaps you cycle to school or to work, or maybe a short cycling trip with friends?  1  ?
    For British cyclist Peter Jones, camping and cycling long distances through desert areas are his favorite sports. He is experienced in expeditions1  2  .
    Jones is now on a great trip across the Eurasian2 continent from Britain to China.
    Having lived in Xinjiang for three years and visited the country many times since
    1992,  3  . But he says many people are puzzled by his passion for cycling, asking why he will choose to cycle when he can afford a car. In China, there are about 400 million bicycles, and it has long been the preferred form of transport. Edward Genochio,  4  , says one of his aims is to "make cycling a safe and acceptable widely used means of transportation."

In the UK,  5  . It is said that the number of people cycling to work has almost doubled in the last five years.

Politicians also see cycling as a sign of environmental protection. London mayor3 Boris Johnson often rides his bike to work.
    But we may have to wait some time before we see him attempting to cycle all the way to China.

Notes:

1. expedition n.远征；探险
2. Eurasian adj.欧亚的
3. mayor n.市长

A. and has visited many places such as Tianshan Mountain and the Tibetan Plateau(高原)
B. However, I have no money and time to carry out a long-distance travel
C. How would you feel about spending months on the road traveling from the UK to China by bike
D. the last few years have seen a rise in the number of people choosing two wheels over four
E. Peter Jones is not a stranger to China
F. the youth of Chinese population has led a long-term economic increase
G. another British cyclist who has completed a 41,000km trip to China and back

第24期参考答案

A)1-4 CABC

B)1-3 CCA

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1. C  2. A  3. E  4. G  5. D