Useful Information in Australia
Useful Numbers
All the telephone numbers are useful and free.
。Fire/ Police/ Ambulance(救护车)—000     Telephone information—12455
。Medical(医学的) Care—1300369359       Taxi—1800421113
Surfing the Internet
With so many Internet tearooms and public libraries, it’s easy to surf the Internet in Australia.
Also it’s very cheap for you to surf the Internet.
。Public libraries offer free Internet every day even during public holidays.
。Many travel managers provide connection which is cheap or free.
Post Service
All post offices around the country offer post services(服务) so you can receive mails as you travel around the whole country.
。Post offices are usually open from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.
。It costs 50 cents to send a standard（标准的） letter in Australia.
Public Holidays
On public holidays all shops are closed across Australia, so are banks and post offices.
。New Year’s Day—1st January
。Australia Day—26th January
。Christmas Day—25th December
【小题1】If there is a fire, you can call________ in Australia.

按括号中的要求完成句子，每个空格填一个单词。
【小题1】We will have a class meeting this afternoon.  (改为否定句)
We ___________ ___________ have a class meeting this afternoon.
【小题2】He has learned to play the guitar for five years.  (对划线部分提问)
___________ ___________ has he learned to play the guitar ?
【小题3】My pen pal asked me, “ Do you wear school uniforms to school every day?”
(改写句子，句意不变)
My pen pal asked me __________ I ____________ school uniforms to school every day.
【小题4】It’s best to make a telephone call in a lower voice in public places. (改写句子，句意不变)
You’d better ___________ _____________ your voice when you talk on the phone in public places.
【小题5】Divide the students into groups so that they can discuss the questions more easily.
(改写句子，句意不变)
If the students are ___________ into groups, it’ll be ___________ for them to discuss the questions.

Dogs like living with people. A dog can be a very good friend. He can do a lot of things for people. Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find lost children. And some of the dogs can help the blind (盲人) do things.

Many years ago there was a very good dog. His name was Seeing Eye dog. Now we can see this kind of dogs all over the world. They are working for the blind.

The Seeing Eye dog is strong, good and easy to train(训练). He helps the blind to walk from place to place.

Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. First the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson the dog learns to make his trainer across busy streets

The dog has many things to learn. And in every lesson he must learn to do one thing again and again for many times.

At the end of the training school he must take tests. When he passes the tests, the Seeing Eye dog will do the things by himself.

Now he can help blind people. The new master may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and live together.

1.We can see the Seeing Eye dog _______.

   A. only in the country        B. only in small cities

   C. all over the world         D. only on the busy street

2.What can the Seeing Eye dog do?

   A. Look after sheep          B. Help blind people

   C. Find lost children         D. Train blind people

3.If you want a dog to become a Seeing Eye dog, you must let him ________.

   A. go to a training school     B. go to a middle school

   C. go to an evening school    D. go to a children school

4.First the dog has to learn to sit or stay __________.

   A. when he hears the telephone call       B. when he hears another dog’s call

   C. when he hears the master’s call        D. when he hears the trainer’s call

5.How long will it take the dog and his blind master to learn to work and live together?

   A. one year    B. five years   C. about a month    D. one week

Dogs like living with people. A dog can be a very good friend. He can do a lot of things for people. Some dogs help people to look after sheep, other dogs help them to find lost children. And some of the dogs can help the blind (盲人) do things.
Many years ago there was a very good dog. His name was Seeing Eye dog. Now we can see this kind of dogs all over the world. They are working for the blind.
The Seeing Eye dog is strong, good and easy to train(训练). He helps the blind to walk from place to place.
Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. First the dog has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson the dog learns to make his trainer across busy streets.
The dog has many things to learn. And in every lesson he must learn to do one thing again and again for many times.
At the end of the training school he must take tests. When he passes the tests, the Seeing Eye dog will do the things by himself.
Now he can help blind people. The new master may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind master about a month to learn to work and live together.
【小题1】We can see the Seeing Eye dog _______.

There are many rules (制度) in the old libraries. For example, no photos, no drinking and no phones. But now a lot of libraries don’t have too many rules. They paint the rooms beautiful colors so readers would like to read there. There aren’t hard chairs in these libraries.

There are nice sofas in them. Some of them are open 24 hours every day. In the libraries in America,

readers can make a 1free call. That means that they don’t need to pay any money for making a call. In the kid’s library in Denmark, children can sleep there if it is too late. In some libraries in Australia, they have a kids’ “story time”. 2今天图书馆是孩子们娱乐和学习知识的好去处。

任务（一）：根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1.Why do many libraries paint their rooms beautiful colors now?

   ________________________________________________________________________

2.In which country do some libraries have a kids’ “story time”?

   ________________________________________________________________________

任务（二）：请写出1处下划线黑体单词“free”的汉语意思。

3.________________________________________________________________________

任务（三）：请将文中2处划线的句子翻译成英语，每空一词。

4.Today libraries are good places for kids to ________ ________ and learn something.

任务（四）：请给短文选择一个最恰当的英文标题。

5.A. New Libraries    B. Library Rules    C. Old Libraries    D. Free Libraries