One of Australia’s “Big Things”，The Giant Koala, is situated midway between the Victorian towns of Stawell and Horsham at a small town called Dadswells Bridge. Dadswells Bridge is regarded as the gateway to the Grampians Ranges. The Giant Koala is the “Guardian of the Grampians”.
Stop in for breakfast, lunch or dinner or just drop in for some takeaway food, a hot drink or a nice cold ice cream. Try our range of old style boiled lollies or make a selection from our lolly shop with a large range of chocolates & lollies. You can even have your next function/party at the Giant Koala in the newly landscaped courtyard fed with our famous camp oven roasted meats.
Make use of our BBQ, and bring your own meat and have a picnic out in our courtyard or among the animals in the zoo. The Giant Koala has a large range of gifts and souvenirs for all ages so that you can take a soft toy koala away with you as a reminder of your visit.
The new owners of The Giant Koala, Rob & Julie-Anne, have recently added a zoo which is home to two very affectionate koalas and other native Australian animals and some farm animals.
You can have your photo taken with our Koalas for a small fee. We have just completed a children’s “Petting Zoo” where they can pat animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, baby turkeys, chickens.
The Giant Koala made an appearance on the Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson movie Charlie and Boots and was featured in the Telstra Bigpond advertisements this year.
A series of eight “Big Things” in Australia has just been released on Redhead Matches and The Giant Koala was selected to be part of this series and you can find them in Supermarkets now.
1.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Have Lunch at The Giant Koala
B. Australia’s “Big Things”
C. Welcome to The Giant Koala: an Unforgettable Experience
D. Best Gifts You Can Buy at The Giant Koala: Soft Toy Koala
2.It can be inferred from the passage that The Giant Koala is ________.
A. a small town B. a sighting seeing place
C. a famous camp D. a very large creature
3.The passage is most likely to be taken from ________.
A. a tourist website B. a food column
C. an English textbook D. a research study
4.The underlined word “fed” can be replaced by “________”.
A. eaten B. encouraged
C. regarded D. supplied
It was always very cold on that lake shore in the night, but we had plenty of blankets and were warm enough. We never moved a muscle all night, but waked at early dawn in the original positions, and got up at once, thoroughly refreshed. There is no end of medicine in such an experience. That morning we could have defeated ten such people as we were the day before—sick ones at any rate. But the world is slow, and people will go to “water cures” and “movement cures” and to foreign lands for health. Three months of camp life on Lake Tahoe would bring back Egyptian mummy to life, and give him a healthy appetite. I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but fresher ones. The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine. And why shouldn’t it be? —it is the same the angels breathe. I think that hardly any amount of tiredness can be gathered together that a man cannot sleep off in one night on the sand by its side. Not under a roof, but under the sky; it seldom or never rains there in the summertime. I know a man who went there to die. But he made a failure of it. He was a skeleton (骨瘦如柴的人) when he came, and could barely stand. He had no appetite, and did nothing but read tracts (小册子) and reflect on the future. Three months later he was sleeping out of doors regularly, eating all he could hold, three times a day, and hunting game over the mountains three thousand feet high for fun. And he was a skeleton no longer, but weighed part of a ton. This is no fancy sketch, but the truth. His disease was consumption. I confidently recommend his experience to other skeletons.
—Mark Twain
1.Which of the following is the topic of the passage?
A. How to live near Lake Tahoe
B. The imagination of Lake Tahoe
C. The area of Lake Tahoe has amazing powers to bring back people’s health
D. Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality are fantastic for Egyptian mummies
2.The writer’s tone of this passage is ________.
A. determined B. persuasive
C. homesick D. entertaining
3.What does the author mean by saying the air is “the same the angels breathe”?
A. The altitude is very high. B. The wet air surrounded the lake.
C. The cold wind in the area. D. The wideness of the land.
4.The author uses the “Egyptian mummy” to compare to ________.
A. people who lost their families B. sick and exhausted people
C. a dead man D. the writers bad dream
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假定你是李华，当前在伦敦的孔子学院（Confucius Institute）做志愿者。你的英国朋友Henry对孔子特别感兴趣，请你写封邮件邀请他参观孔子学院，要点如下：
1.简述孔子及中国文化在世界上的影响；
2.告知参观时间：11月6日（本周六）上午8点；
3.介绍参加活动：汉语班, 剪纸, 书法。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3.参考词汇: 剪纸：paper-cutting
书法：calligraphy
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
For 65 years, Mr Li has been walk around our neighborhood twice the day. It’s a part of his daily exercise routine. He is a retiring biology teacher. As Mr Li gets older and older, he has to rest several times along his route. Therefore, he still gets up early and sticks his routine. The neighbors have noticed his stop. We place different chairs along our route and invite him to sit and took a rest. Now, the mile-long route is spotted with chairs. When we see Mr Li to go by, we realize we should also get out but have a walk.
A dance team from Atlanta, US, used the beautiful Jiangsu folk song Jasmine Flower(Molihua) in their performance on the TV show Amazing Chinese. The song 1.(compose) during the Qing Dynasty(AD1616-1912), was one of the first Chinese 2.(song) to become popular abroad.
The true origin of the song, which has many regional variations, wasn’t discovered 3. two scholars published an article, which showed the history between the folk song and Yangzhou Ditty(小调), 4. old-fashioned type of folk music.
The popularity of the song makes it a symbol to present Chinese culture 5. the world stage. A world-famous Italian composer added the song to his opera Turandot. 6.(appear) in the opera’s first public performance in 1926 helped improve 7.(it) global fame.
In the closing ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics, a Chinese girl 8. (instant) impressed audience with her wonderful singing of the song. It 9. (choose) as music played at the award ceremony in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, bringing us both national 10.(proud) and great artistic enjoyment.
