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 give an answer.
When these radios first came into use, the Australian government set up for them in some areas. At a certain time each day, the boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities miles away. Families on the large farms wanted to give news to their neighbors. "Round Robin(知更鸟)Talks" by radio were started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was going away or who was sick or who Was getting married. The men could talk about their sheep and cattle and how much money the markets would pay for them. In many ways the radio became a newspaper for the farm people of Australia.
This passage tells us something about ______.
A. how large Australia is
B. why the radio is important in Australia
C. how the radio is used in Australia
D. both B and C
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Jim was born after his elder brother and sister. He could learn many things from them. Soon, he developed his own way of doing things by developing his mind through his interest in creating stories. He read more than most children and he gathered his inspiration from history books. In school, his athletic interests were basketball and bike, especially high jump. When he found he could jump a little higher than most students, he decided that jumping over a high bar would be his specialty.
Jim continued his learning interest in history which included serious college study, and a Master's degree. He is now a university professor at a small university. In the United States there are many schools that have history departments. There are large universities with as many as 60 thousand students and small universities with as few as 2 000 students. His degree from a large university with a strong history department has helped him get a good job.
Jim and Kate like cats. They have two of them and these cats are special members of the family. Their grey and white cat is Toby. The coal-black colour cat is called Buddha(佛爷) because he sits so quietly. Cats are popular with many people in America.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Jim is the second child in his family.
B. Jim has a younger sister.
C. Jim is the third child in his family.
D. Jim is the only child in his family.
It is estimated that some seven hundred million people about half of the world's population are unable to read and write, and there are probably two hundred and fifty million more people whose level of attainment is so slight that it barely outlives a literacy.
Recently the attack on illiteracy(文盲)has been stepped up. A world plan has been drawn up by a committee of UNESCO experts in Paris, as part of the United Nations Development Decade, and an international conference on the subject has the aim. People must learn the basic skills of responsible citizenship: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, pricelists, to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered, and to fill in forms.
The major areas of illiteracy are in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In Africa there are at least one hundred million illiterates, compromising(牵连)eighty to eighty-five per cent of the total population. In Europe the figure is about twenty-four million, most of them in Southern Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Yugoslavia heading the list (the United Kingdom has about seven hundred thousand).
Studying carefully the clues in the passage, we learn that the total population of Africa is ______.
A. approximately seven hundred million
B. approximately one hundred and twenty-five million
C. approximately eight or eight point five thousand million
D. exactly twenty-four million
Today's trumpet is one of the world's oldest instruments. It is result of many centuries of development. Although it looks nothing like its ancestors, there are many similarities. All trumpets are hollow tubes. They all use the player's lips to produce the basic sound.
The trumpets developed as players and makers worked to improve its design, size, shape, material, and method of construction. They wanted to create an instrument that would produce a beautiful and attractive tone, enable the performer to play all the notes of the scale, extend the range higher and lower, make it possible to play more difficult music, and, in general, be easier to play well. The remarkable way in which the modern trumpet achieves these goals is a measure of the success of all those who struggled to perfect this glorious instruments.
The trumpet is actually the leading member of an entire family of related instruments. There are trumpets of several different sizes, and in several different keys, There are trumpets of several different sizes, and in several different keys. There are cornets, bugles, flugehorns, and a number of others that are all similar to the trumpet in the way they are made and played.
The trumpet family is much more than a group of related instruments that stir one with their sound, or narrow tubes of metal capable of producing a variety of musical sounds. It is a link to many different periods of history and to people of many cultures. From the use of trumpets in accident religious ceremonies to the part they play in modern rock bands the trumpet family of instruments has much to tell about civilization and its development.
It can be inferred from the passage that in order to make the trump work, ______ is needed.
A. air pressure
B. daily cleaning
C. keen eyesight
D. long fingers
Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can't go to a respectable buyer but must deal with people who don't have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.
In Spring's time, fight after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the southern states. So, Spring invented a respectable lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny's financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters belonging to her famous father. Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty.
Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada?
A. There was a greater demand there than in America.
B. There was less chance of being discovered there.
C. Britain was Spring's birthplace.
D. The prices were higher in England and Canada than the ones in America.