第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分，满分40分)

A

The Museum of Childhood is Australia’s most comprehensive collection of childhood items including toys,dolls,infant and school material.

Housed in a modern facility(设施), the displays reflect Australian childhood experience over time including play,child rearing(=raising),orphanage(孤儿院)childhood 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 details).

Open:Tuesday—Friday 10am—4pm,Sunday 10am—4:30pm,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 Princessintersection.The Museum is 15 minutes’ walk from Claremont.

56.On_______you can stay at Museum until half past four.

A.Wednesday    B.Friday    C.Sunday     D.Monday

57.If you want to attend a special activity,you’d better come on________.

A.Monday       B.Tuesday  C.Saturday    D.Sunday

58.The underlined word”alight “most probably means________.

A.get off        B.light      C.cross      D.go long

59.The main prupose of te Museum of Childhood is to__________.

A.display toys,dolls,infantand school material. B.reflect Australian childhood experience over time.

C.host national touring exhibition.          D.tell you the famous“lesson”in the 1920s.

B

While football fans feel strongly angry and shocked about mistakes made by referees (裁判) because they cannot see clearly what has happened, a small German company is quietly pleased.

For Cairos Technologies, mistakes made by referees are the kind of advertising that money cannot buy. The company has developed a tiny chip(芯片) that fits inside a football and determines whether the ball has crossed the goal line, by being able to discover its exact location on the field. The world football organization, FIFA, has shown interest in the technology. It is very possible that the new technology will be used in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

"We've been testing the technology at the main soccer stadium in Nuremberg for some time and more recently in an under-17 FIFA Cup in Peru," said Gunter Rohmer, a director of the company. "The technology has performed well, and we're pretty optimistic that it will be used at the games in Germany next year."

The chip only weighs 12 grams, and is placed in the center of the football. It sends 2,000 signals a second to a receiver network of 12 antennas(天线),placed around the field. The receivers then send information about the ball's location to a central computer, and because it works in real time, it can immediately tell the referee whether a goal has been scored. The chip even can tell when the ball crosses the line in mid-air. Oliver Braun, one of the inventors of the chip, says that feedback from German referees was generally positive. Germany sports-wear giant Adidas is also optimistic about using this kind of chip in other ball sports.

FIFA aims to test the technology later this year at another game in Japan before deciding whether or not to introduce it in all 12 stadiums in Germany for next year's World Cup.

60. Carlos Technologies is pleased because ________.

A. football fans are angry with referees

B. their new product can satisfy football fans

C. their new product will have a good market

D. they can sell a lot of football in the future

61. In the first sentence in Paragraph 2,"... mistakes made by referees are the kind of advertising that money cannot buy" means ___________.

A. Carlos Technologies can't afford the high price for advertising their product

B. Mistakes in production are also a kind of advertisement

C. Carios Technologies has already spent a lot of money on advertising their product

D. Referees' mistakes will be of great help for the sale of Carlos Technologies' new product

62. The underlined word "feedback" probably means ___________.

A. information given back by a user     B. advice given by someone

C. supplying food to customers          D. food given back by consumers

63.The new product has drawn attention from some _________.

A. famous people    B. referees         C. big companies  D. countries

C

The Chinese invented paper in 105 A. D. They mixed the bark of a tree and rags (破布) with water, put a screen into the mixture, and lifted out a thin piece of wet paper. They dried the paper in the sun.

The Chinese kept their secret of how to make paper until a war with Muslims in the ninth century. The art of papermaking soon spread throughout the Muslim world.

The Mayan Indians in Central America and Pacific Islanders also discovered how to make paper, but their knowledge never spread to the rest of the world.

For centuries, all paper was made by hand. Rags were the main material. Then a French scientist discovered that people could make paper from wood, too. Finally, in the eighteenth century. a Frenchman invented a machine to make paper from wood.

64. Who discovered how to make paper?

A. The Chinese.                 B. The Pacific Islanders.

C. The Mayan Indians.           D. All of the above.

65. When did the Chinese invent paper according to the passage?

A. About 1 ,800 years ago.      B. About 1, 900 years ago.

C. About 2, 000 years ago.      D. About 2, 100 years ago.

66. How was papermaking introduced into the rest of the world from China?

A.Through wars.                 B.Through the Mayan Indians.

C.Through the Muslims.      D.Through the Pacific Islanders.

67. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. The History of Papermaking.     B. The Invention of Paper.

C. Different Ways of Making Paper.   D. The Invention of a Papermaking Machine.