The Two-way Radio

　　Australia is nearly as large as the United States, but most of it is too dry for people to live in. Around the edge (邊緣) of this huge dry part are large sheep and cattle (牛群，家畜) . farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbours (鄰居) are many hundred miles 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.

　　When these radios first came into use, the Australian government (政府) set up a special (專門的，特別的) two-way radio programme (節(jié)目). Then, people on the large farms could talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away. They could tell the doctor about someone who was sick, and the doctor could let them know how to care for the sick person.

　　Since the large farms were so far from towns, the children could not go to school. Radio schools were set up for them in some places. 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 neighbours. “Round robin (知更鳥)”talks by radio were started to keep families in touch with each other. They could talk about who was getting married or who was sick or who was going away. 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.

1．This passage tells us something about ________.

[　　]

A．how the radio is used in Australia

B．why the radio is important in Australia

C．how large Australia is

D．both A and B

2．Australia is ________America.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn)lmost the same size as
B．larger than
C．just as large as
D．a(chǎn)s large as the smallest state in America

3．How many examples were given by the writer to show the use of radio on the great farms? ________.

[　　]

A．Three
B．Only one
C．Two
D．Four

4．Families on the large farms kept in touch with each other by

________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) bird
B．radio
C．a(chǎn) newspaper
D．telephone

5．The two-way radio is something like a telephone because

________.

[　　]

A．you can talk and listen to somebody by radio at the same time.

B．people could talk to a doctor hundreds of miles away

C．the radio has two telephones

D．the government has set up a special two-way radio programme

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Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum(論壇) asking what “PK”meant.

“My family has been watching the ‘I Am the Singer’ singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.

To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.

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Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.

“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.

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76.By writing the article, the writer tries to _________.

  A.explain some Internet jargons             B.suggest common Internet jargons

  C.laugh at the Beijing father                D.draw our attention to Internet jargons

77.What does the underlined word Internet jargons mean?

  A.Internet language    B.Internet action     C.Internet behavior    D.Internet fashion

78.What does the writer think about the word “PK”?

  A.Fathers can’t possibly know it.            B.The daughter should understand it.

  C.Online game players may know it.         D. “I Am the Singer” shouldn’t have used it.

79.The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons__________.

  A.are used not only online                    B.can be understood very well

  C.are welcomed by all the people              D.cause trouble to our mother tongue

80.What would be the best title for the passage?

  A. A Puzzled Father!                      B.Do You Speak Internet English? 

C.Keep away from Internet English!          D.Kong Long or Qing Wa?

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