If you go to Brisbane,Australia,you can easily get a small book called “Discover Brisbane” free.The book tells you almost everything in Brisbane: the restaurants,the shops,the cinemas,the streets,the buses,the trains,the bank,etc..Here is something about banks on page 49:

  ANZ Banking Group

  Cnr,Greek & Queen Sts…………………………228 3228

  Bank of New Zealand

  410 Queen Street………………………………221 0411

  Bank of Queensland

  229 Elizabeth Street……………………………229 3122

  Commonwealth Banking Group

  240 Queen Street………………………………237 3111

  National Australia Bank Ltd

  Westpac Banking Corp

   260 Queen Streen………………………………227 2666

  Banking Hours are Mon-Thurs 9:30 am to 4 pm.

  Fri.9:30 am to 5pm.All banks close Sat.&Public Holidays.

     Australia a decimal currency with 100 cents to the Dollar.

     Notes available are:$100, $50, $20, $10, $5.

     Gold conis are:$2 &$ 1.

     Silver coins are:50,20,10&5.

     Copper coins are:2&1 cent.

1.You can find ANZ bank on___________.

A.Queen Street

B.Elizabeth Street

C.the corner of Greek Street and Queen Street

D.the corner of Queen Street and Elizabeth Street.

2._________seems to be the most important street in Brisbane.

A.Greek Street       B.Elizabeth Street

C.Queen Street      D.Adelaide Street

3.On Saturday,you can go to _________to put your money in or take your money out.

A.ANZ Banking Group                  B.Bank of Queensland

C.National Australia Bank Ltd             D.no bank

4.In Australia,the banks have their longest service hours on__________.

A.public holidays      B.Sundays         C.Saturdays            D.Fridays

BEIJING—Beijing is to spend up to us $ 20 billion to change the Chinese capital into a 21th century one for the 2008 Olympics.

    The government managed to host the 2008 games.The general aim is for Beijing to have the same environmental standards as Paris,London or Washington by 2008.

    Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to pipe natural gas to the city’s home,taking away dirty coal buring gradually while 60,000 buses will be changed to liquefied(液化的)gas.

    The money also will be used for relocating the polluting factories and building green belts.By 2008 around 90 percent of Beijing’s waste will be treated,compared to only 40 percent at present.

   Olympic officials have already announced that around 50 large projects are being dealt with to improve traffic congestion and cut down pollution.They include construction of Beijing’s first light railway,a 40.5-kilometer line which is expected to be completed in 2005.

    Beijing,besides,plans to build an 82.25-kilometer-long subway to add to the existing 53 kilometres.Nine major roads will be rebuilt or widened.

    Beijing also plans to build a 70-meter-wide green belt aong the waterways to protect water quality as well as increase the green areas.

1.The government will pipe natural gas to the city’s home in order to_________.

A. solve the problem of being short of fuel

B. bring down the cost of daily life

C. reduce the pollution of our capital

D. keep up with the development of modern society

2.From the last threee paragraphs we know the fact that _____________.

A.lengthening the existing 53-kilometer subway is among the 50 large projects

B. a 40.5-kilometre line will be added to Beijing’s frist light railway

C.the length of the subway will be up to  135.25 kilometres in 2005

D.a 70-meter-wide green belt will supply us with enough water

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The environment of London is better than Toronto.

B.In the first paragraph “a 21st century one” refers to a modern and advanced capital.

C.Beijing is badly polluted mainly by coal burning

D.Liquefied gas in more expensive than petrol.

4.This news report mainly talks about ___________.

A.how Beijing is becoming a 21st century city

B.how many projects arebeing dealt with to improve traffic of Beijing

C.how Beijing is being built into first class Olympic host city

D.the use of the 20 billion US dollars

The first telegraph cable was laid under the sea between England and France in 1850.Cables are much  1 and heavier than telegraph wires.There are a number of reasons for this:one reason is that the salt water of the sea harms  2  telegraph wires,and so they have to be 3  , another is that,because electricity 4 easily through water,wires have to be 5  to prevent electric signals which are passing through them 6 escaping and getting lost in the sea;a third reason is that cables have to be very strong 7 they will break while they are being 8 along the bottom of the sea from a ship sailing on the surface.

  The 9  cables that men tried to lay  10  England and America broke and were 11 during storms.At last,after nine years of hard work,the two English-speaking nations of Britain and America were 12 in 1866 by the electric telegraph under the sea.

    Later,all the different 13 of the world were joind up by a 14 of cables.It is 15 easy to send a message by cables as it is to 16 an ordinary telegram,and it takes no longer for a message to 17 half way round the world than from one town to the 18 .Every hour of the day and night 19 are being flashed under the ocean to and20 every country in the world.

1. A.thicker        B.better      C.longer       D.larger

2. A.ordinary       B.special     C.plain        D.simple

3. A.raised         B.fixed       C.protected    D.repaired

4. A.comes          B.passes      C.escapes      D.sends

5. A.hid            B.circled     C.covered      D.dressed

6. A.from           B.through     C.by           D.into

7. A.so             B.or          C.but          D.and

8. A.lined          B.pulled      C.laid         D.covered

9. A.best           B.most        C.first        D.thickest

10. A.between        B.around      C.beside       D. among

11. A.cast           B.thrown      C.drawn        D.lost

12. A.fixed          B.joined      C.met          D.mixed

13. A.cities         B.countries   C.parts        D.peoples

14. A.set            B.packet      C.sort         D.network

15. A.very          B.so           C.as            D.not

16. A.make          B.send         C.use           D.write

17. A.find          B.travel       C.visit         D.meet

18. A.next          B.second       C.last           D.another

19. A.news          B.pictures     C.messages       D.telegrams

20．A.out           B.in           C.from           D.off

The U.S.A. is one of the most developing countries in             1.___________

the world.It lies in between two oceans the Atlantic anc the      2.___________

Pacific.North of it is Canada,and south of is Mexico.It           3.___________

has a area of over nine million three hundred and sixty thousand  4.___________

square kilometers.It is made of fifty states.Washington           5.___________

is the capital,which lies in the east coast,face the               6.___________

Atlantic Ocean.It is one of the biggest countries in the          7.___________

world.It has a population of two hundred and thirty               8.___________

million.In recently years the friendships between the               9.___________

Chinese people and the American people have being developing.      10.___________

The high noise of modern life may affect speech and language development in the very young,according to a study that found the auditory(听觉的)parts of the brains of young mice are slower to organize properly in the presence of continuous sounds.

   Researchers at the University of California,San Francisco,reared a group of rats in an environment of continuous background noise and found that their brain circuits that receive and interpret(解释)sound did not develop at the same rate as animals that were raised in a quieter environment.

     Edward F. Chang and Michael Merzenich,co-authors of the study appearing in the journal Science,said that the continuous noise delayed the organization of auditory neurons(神经细胞)during a critical two-to-three-week period after the rat pups were born.

    For rats not exposed to the noise,the auditory cortex(皮层)neurons during this period gathered into a smaller area and began developing a selective response to sounds.

   But for the noise-exposed rats,this organization was slowed,causing a delay in the development of the ability to discriminate(辨别)specific sound tones.The researchers said it took three or four times longer for the rats raised in a noisy environment to reach the basic bench marks(基准)of auditory development seen in the rat pups not exposed to noises.

    Although the rat is not a perfect model for what happens in humans,the authors note,the study does suggest that high levels of noise might possibly affect some language learning in babies.

   “These findings suggest that environmental noise,which is commonly preasent in contemporary child-rearing environments,can potentially contribute to auditory and language—related development delays,” the authors wrote in Science.

   The authors noted that although the brain development was delayed in rats exposed to the noise,their brains did eventually mature(成熟的)normally.

1.The scientists at California University studied rats____________.

A.of different age groups                B.with different habits

C.in different environments              D.from different areas

2.The rats exposed to noise,compared to those not exposed,_________.

A.were more sensitive                B.were duller

C.grew up more slowly               D.gathered together more quickly

3.The result of the research mainly tells us that noise_________________.

A.delays brain development           B.stops baby growth

C.affects speech and language         D.destroys brains

4.The finding of the research are said to have special connections with____________.

A.causes of noises                  B.medical science

C.other living things                D.human babies