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1、1阅读理解训练题（二十一） A The Museum of Childhood is Australias most comprehensive collection of childhood items including toys , dolls , infant and school material . Housed in a modern facility , the displays reflect Australian childhood experience over time including play , child rearing , orphanage childho
2、od , and home , school , and war time experience . There are many hands on exhibits and education sessions including the famous lesson in the 1920s One Teacher Bush Classroom . The Museum also hosts national touring exhibitions and conducts special activities on Sundays and school holidays（ring for
3、details ）. Open: Tuesday- Friday 10am 4pm , Sunday 10am 4:30 pm , or by arrangement . Special activities on Sundays as advertise . Closed: Public holidays ,16 December-18 January . Location: Edith Cowan University campus , Bay Road , Claremont (take bus 208 and alight at the Bay Road and Princess Ro
4、ad intersection . The Museum is 15 minutes walk from Claremont train station ) Tel :(08) 9442 1373 ; Fax ; (08 ) 9442 1314 56On you can stay at the Museum until half past four . AWednesday BFriday CSunday DMonday 57If you want to attend a special activity , youd better come on . AMonday BTuesday CSa
5、turday DSunday 58When you come on December 20th , Friday ,you will find the Museum . Aclosed Bholding special activities Cnot closed until 4:00Dnot closed until 4:30 59The main purpose of the Museum of Childhood is to . Adisplay toys , dolls , infant and school material Breflect Australian childhood
6、 experience over time Chost national touring exhibition Dtell you the famous lesson in the 1920s B WASHINGTON-Laura Straub is a very worried woman . Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer . Its not easy , even desperate . “We have man
7、y children left to place :40 out of 75,” said Straub , who works for a Paris- based foreign exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago , family life was more accommodating . For one thing , more mothers stayed home . But now , increasing numbers of women work outsid
8、e the home . Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30,000 teenagers who annually come from abroad to spend and academic year in the United States , as well as the thousands more who participate in summer programmes . School systems in many parts
9、of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students , have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept . At the same time , the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic. In searching for host families , who usually receive no pay , exchange programmes are
10、increasingly broadening heir appeals to include everyone from young couples to retirees . “We are open to many different types of families,” said Vickie Weiner , eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25- year old programme that sends about 30,000 teen-agers on academic year exchange programmes world
11、wide . For elderly people , exchange students “keep us young they really do ,” said Jean Foster , who is hosting 16-year old Nina Porst from Denmark . 60Viekie Weiner is the person who .2Aworks for a programme called LEC Bworks for a programme called ASSE Cis 25 years old Dhosts foreign students 61T
12、he underlined word “exotic” means . Adifficult Bwonderful Cexciting Daccommodating 62From the passage we can learn that at the beginning of the exchange programmes , . Aall the families cold host foreign students Bonly young couples could host foreign students Conly those who were retired could host
13、 foreign students Dthose who were not too old could host foreign students 63Which of the following is the best title of this passage ? AUS Struggle to Find Host Families BIdea of Hosting Students Is Different CForeign-exchange Program Is Going On DExchange Students Keep Old People Young C Mosquitoes
14、（蚊子）are very important in human history . The Guinness Book of Records says that mosquitoes have caused over 50 per cent of all human deaths since the Stone Age , excluding deaths from war and accidents ! Mosquitoes are found all over the world . Female mosquitoes usually feed on the blood of humans
15、 and animals . Mosquitoes often carry dangerous disease called malaria , which usually occurs during hot , rainy season . If a mosquito feed on the blood of a person with malaria , it becomes a carrier of the disease . It injects the disease into the next person it bites . So , for example , a touri
16、st could be infected with malaria during a visit to Indonesia . The same tourist might then visit Thailand where another mosquito may bite him . This mosquito could then bite another person and spread the disease . People have used insecticides to kill mosquitoes and their eggs for a long time , but many in
