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【題目】Answer the questions（根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題）

Australia is almost as large as China（China is about 9,600,000 km2 while Australia is 7,682,300 km2）,but Australia has a much smaller population（just over 19. 5 million）. Most people live in cities along the coast of Australia, and huge areas of the rest of Australia are uninhabited（無人居住的）. In some areas, families live a long way away from one another and from towns and cities. Australians call this part of the country "the Out back（內(nèi)陸）"or "the Bush". Most people who live in the outback work on huge sheep or cattle stations（農(nóng)場）.Some of these properties are as large as 3,000~5,000 km2 and their nearest neighbours may be 100 km or more away.

Many children in the outback are too far from town to travel to school. Instead, they attend one of the sixteen Schools of the Air. The schools are located in towns and teachers use high frequency radio to talk to their classes. They also post work to the students who post it back for their teacher to mark. Students also use the Internet, fax and phone to communicate with their teacher and with other students. Sometimes students are sent a video or audiotape to help them with their lessons.

Tim Benton's brother George is the manager of a large cattle station in the Northern Territory. When they were in primary school, George's children, Rebecca and Oliver, attended the Alice Spring School of the Air. Their mother and father took it in turns to help them with their lessons. After they finished primary school, Rebecca and Oliver went to a high school in Alice Springs. They lived with their Aunt Mary during the school term and returned home during the school holidays. At first, high school was difficult because they weren't used to being in a class with other students. In some subjects, they did not know as much as the children from the town. However, they soon caught up because they had very good study skills, thanks to the School of the Air.

【1】Where do most Australians live?

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【2】Where did Rebecca and Oliver live when they attended primary school?

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【3】Where did they live when they attended high school?

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【4】Which subjects do you think would be hardest to study at home?

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【5】Why do you think Rebecca and Oliver had such good study skills?

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【6】When Rebecca and Oliver were in high school, why did they only go home in the school holidays?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】They live in cities along the coast of Australia.

【2】On a cattle station in the Northern Territory.

【3】In Alice Springs（at their Aunt Mary's house）.

【4】Maths and Science.（Any reasonable answer is acceptable.）

【5】Because the teachers in the School of the Air help them develop the good study skills.

【6】Because their home was a long way away from their school in Alice Spring.

【解析】

本文主要介紹了澳大利亞以及其內(nèi)陸情況，并向我們介紹了蒂姆·本頓的弟弟喬治家孩子上學(xué)的情況。

【1】題干問：大多數(shù)澳大利亞人住在哪里？根據(jù)文中“Most people live in cities along the coast of Australia”可知，大多數(shù)人住在澳大利亞沿海城市，故填They live in cities along the coast of Australia.

【2】題干問：麗貝卡和奧利弗上小學(xué)時住在哪里？根據(jù)文中“…a large cattle station in the Northern Territory. When they were in primary school…”可知，他們上小學(xué)時住在北領(lǐng)地的一個大型養(yǎng)牛場，故填On a cattle station in the Northern Territory.

【3】題干問：他們上高中時住在哪里？根據(jù)文中“Rebecca and Oliver went to a high school in Alice Springs. They lived with their Aunt Mary during the school term”可知，他們上高中時住在在艾麗斯斯普林斯與瑪麗阿姨住在一起，故填In Alice Springs（at their Aunt Mary's house）.

【4】題干問：你認(rèn)為在家學(xué)習(xí)哪些課程最難？本題屬于開放性試題，任何合理的答案都是可以的。參考答案填Maths and Science.

【5】題干問：你認(rèn)為麗貝卡和奧利弗為什么有這么好的學(xué)習(xí)技能？根據(jù)文中“because they had very good study skills, thanks to the School of the Air.”可知，因為School of the Air教給了他們好的學(xué)習(xí)技巧，故填Because the teachers in the School of the Air help them develop the good study skills.

【6】題干問：麗貝卡和奧利弗上高中的時候，為什么他們只在學(xué)校放假的時候回家呢？根據(jù)文中“are too far from town to travel to school.”可知，學(xué)校離家特別遠(yuǎn)，故填Because their home was a long way away from their school in Alice Spring