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5. Australia Country Profile The country of Australia is slightly smaller than the United States, and it occupies about 7,686,850 square kilometers — about 62,920 square kilometers are water — in Oceania. The country comprises the continent between the Indian and South Pacific Oceans, as well as thousands of islands of various sizes. The western two-thirds of Australia is made up of plateaus with areas of desert, while the east-central region is made up of lowland plains that rise into a highland belt along the East Coast. These maps of Australia show Australia's Southern Hemisphere location as well as its major cities, highways, and geographical features. Australia has a subtropical arid climate, with hot, humid, and rainy summers and dry, warm winters in the north and dry and sunny summers and mild and rainy winters in the south. Australia also has the distinction of being the world's driest inhabited continent; there are few bodies of water in Australia or rivers that flow through it. Rainfall in Australia is fairly minimal, except on the eastern coast. The earliest inhabitants of Australia were nomadic hunter-gatherers and fire-stick farmers known as aborigines, who arrived in Australia thousands of years ago. The first European settlement in Australia was in the late 1700s, when the British moved about 160,000 convicted prisoners to the country. While the penal colonies lasted for approximately 60 years, individual immigrants began to come to Australia in 1820. The amount of available land, and the fact that gold was discovered, brought even more immigrants to Australia during the mid-19th century. While wheat, gold, wool, and beef and dairy were popular industries in early Australia, today the country relies upon wool, beef, dairy, steel, and manufacturing. Today, Australia's population is highly multicultural, with about one in four Australians being born somewhere other than Australia. Following World War II, Australia aligned its foreign policy to the United States rather than Great Britain; in 2005, the country entered into a bilateral free-trade agreement with the United States. Australia also has a close relationship with China. The capital of Australia is Canberra, while its largest cities, in order of size, are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra. The island of Tasmania is Australia's largest and most well-known island. 9. Which the following goods did not belong to popular industry in early Australia?

A、Gold.

B、Wool.

C、Steel.

D、Dairy.

A、Britain

B、France

C、Spain

D、Mexico

英译中 It has been a staple of science fiction for decades, and could be a godsend for tourists grappling with directions to their hotel. An earpiece that lets its wearer understand other nationalities by instantly translating foreign languages is due to go on sale next month. The £140 device, which can decode eight languages, is inspired by translators such as the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which allowed the earthling Arthur Dent to comprehend alien races on his adventures. Ling mo International, the Australian firm behind the Trans/ate 0ne20ne earpiece, said it would put an end to awkward international meetings between politicians and business leaders. The device translates sentences in three to five seconds using IBM's artificial intelligence language software, Watson. It is the first earpiece of its kind to translate languages

A、Parallelism

B、Coordination

C、Subordination

D、Division

此题为判断题(对，错)。

The part of the environmental movement that draws my firm's attention is the design of cities, buildings and products. When we designed America's first so-called“green” office building in New York two decades【C1】______, we felt very alone. But today, thousands of people come to green building conferences, and the【C2】______that buildings can be good for people and the environment will be increasingly influential in years to【C3】______

Back in 1984 we discovered that most manufactured products for decoration weren't designed for【C4】______use. The“energy- efficient”sealed commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis【C5】______indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint, wall covering and carpet. So for 20 years, we've been focusing on these materials【C6】______to the molecules, looking for ways to make them【C7】______for people and the planet.

Home builders can now use materials- such as paints that release significantly【C8】______amounts of organic compounds-that don't【C9】______the quality of the air, water, or soil. Ultimately,【C10】______, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being “less bad” but on creating【C11】______healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil【C12】______reused by industry again and again. As a matter of【C13】______, the world's largest carpet manufacturer has already【C14】______a carpet that is fully and safely recyclable(可循环利用).

Look at it this way: No one【C15】______out to create a building that destroys the planet. But our current industrial systems are【C16】______causing these conditions, whether we like it or not. So【C17】______of simply trying to reduce the damage, we are【C18】______a positive approach. We're giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that have a【C19】______effect on the world.

It's not just the building industry, either.【C20】______cities are taking these environmentally positive approaches to design, planning and building. Portland, Seattle and Boston have said they want to be green cities. Chicago wants to be the greenest city in the world.

【C1】

A．off

B．away

C．before

D．ago