Question

　　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. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. 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. A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer. For example, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor far away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was ill, and the doctor could let them know how to look after the sick person.

　　As 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 (某一) 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 programme “Round Robin” talks by radio were started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was going away and who was ill. The men could talk about their sheep and cows and how much money the markets could pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.

(1) From the first paragraph, we know there are some ________ farms in Australia.

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A．very good

B．very large

C．very dry

D．very small

(2) In the passage above the two-way radio is ________.

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A．important to Americans

B．useful for children only

C．used as a telephone

D．only used by doctors

(3) The word “sick” in the second paragraph means ________.

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A．ill

B．poor

C．kind

D．healthy

(4) The children on the large farms far away ________.

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A．always went to school together

B．could have lessons on the radios

C．listened to teachers at school

D．built radio schools with teachers

(5) Which of the following is NOT TRUE in the passage?

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A．The two-way radio is like a telephone for Australian farmers.

B．Families on large farms could keep in touch with each other by radios.

C．The two-way radio is like a newspaper for Australian farmers.

D．All the Australians live on dry places, and they use radios in many ways.

(6) The best title of this passage is ________.

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A．Australian Families

B．Australian People

C．A Useful Radio

D．A Telephone Call

Answer 1

答案：B;C;A;B;D;C
解析：

(1) 从A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America.一句知道澳大利亚的农场确实很大。 (2) 从文章中很容易看出这一点。 (3) 从上面的who was ill可以知道。 (4) 第三段讲到了孩子们的学习方式。 (5) 从第一句的内容可以判断出all the Australians live on dry places的说法是不对的。 (6) 本文告诉我们的是two-way radio的使用。