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
1.If there is a fire, you can call________ in Australia.
A. 1300369359 B. 180042113 C.000 D.12455
2.Which is the right time to send a letter in a post office in Australia?
A. At 8:30 on Tuesday. B. At 9:30 on Sunday.
C. At 8:30 on Saturday. D. At 9:30 on Monday.
3.Mr. Green lives alone in Australia and he isn’t in good health. He needs a nurse to look after him. What should he do?
A. Go to an Internet tearoom. B. Send a letter to his son.
C. Call 1300369359. D. Go to a hospital.
4.Which one might be open on public holidays?
A. Public libraries. B. Shops. C. Banks. D. Post offices.
5.Which one is not right according to（根据）the above passage?
A. Surfing the Internet is cheap in Australia.
B. It costs 50 cents to send a standard letter.
C. Australians go to work on 26th January.
D. Australians don't go shopping on public holidays.
It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.
So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.
The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪ plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.
Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.
British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪ say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪ would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day.
1.____________ U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days.
A. All B. Most C. Some D. Few
2.How many vacation days do Americans have on average each year in fact?
A.9 B.12 C.15 D.23
3.Which country has the most workers working during the vacation days?
A. America. B. France. C. Sweden. D. great Britain.
4.What does the word “sacrifice” mean in the last sentence?
A. Use up. B. Put up. C. Take up. D. Give up.
5.Which of the following is true?
A. Some American workers are too busy to leave their work.
B. French workers can take one Three-to-four week days.
C. Swedish workers can enjoy all of their vacation days.
D. British workers have the shortest vacation days of all the countries surveyed.
In the past month，we’ve been holding our breath for news about a Boeing 777 plane,MH 370．
It took off from Kuala Lumpur(吉隆坡)，Malaysia．On March 8．It was heading to Beijing．But about two hours into the flight, the plane went missing．
There were 239 people on the flight，including 154 Chinese．
A total of 12 countries including China and the US have joined the search for the plane．
Did it crash? We know that the weather was clear that day．The pilots didn’t make any distress calls(求救信号)．And as of March l3，experts have not found any broken parts of the plane。
Was it hijacked(劫机)? Two Iranians(伊朗人)used stolen passports to get into the flight．But now they do not appear to be linked to any possible hijacking of the plane，international police agency Interpol(国际刑警组织)official said on March 11．
The search is still going on．It could take months or even years to find out what happened
to the flight．
1.When did MH370 go missing?
A．March 8 B．March 9 C．March ll D．April 8
2.How many Chinese are there on the flight?
A．239 B．1 54 C．1 45 D．85
3.What was the weather like that day?
A．cloudy B．rainy C．fine D．windy
4.Did the pilots make any distress calls before the plane went missing?
A．Yes，they did． B．No，they didn’t． C．We don’t know．D．Maybe
5.How long could it take to find out what happened to the flight?
A．several months B．several years C．months or years D．3 months
Yesterday when my son and I were eating dinner, I saw a policewoman walking past our house. A woman with a look was following her.
I opened the , went out and asked if everything was OK. The policewoman said that the woman's had gone missing(失踪) an hour earlier. I said that we hadn't seen the girl, but we could .I explained to my son that we couldn't finish our right then. He said,” Be a kind person, Dad. "We got in our car and the girl all over the town. Along the way, a group of children were playing. they heard what had happened, they said they would help . They rode their bikes and joined us.
the little girl was found safe a few miles away. I was so to see many people help a stranger. It is a nice world.
1.A. worried B. laughing C. surprised D. lucky
2.A. mouth B. car C. door D. window
3.A. son B. daughter C. mother D. grandmother
4.A. succeed B. eat C. see D. help
5.A. housework B. dinner C. games D. work
6.A. looked for B. looked at C. looked after D. looked out
7.A. Before B. After C. Although D. So
8.A. them B. you C. us D. themselves
9.A. Luckily B. Possibly C. Sadly D. Quickly
10.A. proud B. strange C. tired D. happy
If I _______ you, I would give some flowers to her.
A. am B. are C. was D. were
_______ used to _______ a post office near my house.
A. There; be B. There; have C. It; be D. There; having
