【正文】 he rest of the world. 1. Who turned Australia into a colony?A. Britain. B. Several European countries.C. The United States of America. D. None of the above.2. In the early history of America and Australia, both colonies developed towards the west firstly for the reason that __________.A. the population was increasing rapidly in the eastB. the English thought there might be richer land thereC. gold was discovered thereD. fewer people lived there3. In the early 1920s, ______.A. the population in Australia was greater than that of United StatesB. there were more sheep in Australia than in the United StatesC. Australia had one fifteenth as many people as sheepD. the United States had twice as many sheep as people4. Australia, unlike the United States, ________. A. won its independence by peaceful meansB. did not discover gold until the late 1840sC. was the last and biggest continent to be discoveredD. was not rich in gold in its western part5. The last sentence in the last paragraph “…Australia and the United States have more in mon with each other than either one has with most of the rest of the world” means “_______”.A. The United States and Australia do not have any main differencesB. The United States and Australia have much more in mon than they have with other countriesC. The United States and Australia have nothing in mon with the rest of the worldD. In mon with the rest of the world, the United States and Australia have a lot of differencesCSusan Sontag (1933 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.Seriousness was one of Sontag39。s lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the welleducated and the pooreducated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a littleknown set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous. Notes on Camp, she wrote, represents a victory of 39。form39。 over 39。content39。, 39。beauty39。 over 39。morals39。. By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感覺論者), but by nature she was a moralist (倫理學(xué)者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor published in 1978, after she suffered cancer she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities (被壓抑的個性), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, reexamining old positions was her lifelong habit. In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless, allpurpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. Sometimes, she once said, I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending ... is the idea of seriousness, of tree seriousness. And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.1. The underlined sentence in Paragraph I means Sontag _______. A. was a symbol of American cultural life B. developed world literature, film and art C. published many essays about world culture D. kept pace with the newest development of world culture2. She first won her name through_______. A. her story of a Polish actress B. her book Illness as Metaphor C. publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review D. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings3. According to the passage, Susan Sontag____. A. was a sensualist as well as a moralist B. looked down upon the pop culture C. thought content was more important than form D. blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed4. As for Susan Sontag39。s lifelong habit, she______. A. misunderstood the idea of seriousness B. reexamined old positions C. argued for an openness to pop culture D. preferred morals to beauty5. Susan Sontag39。s lasting fame was made upon _____ . A. a tireless, allpurpose cultural view B. her lifelong watchword: seriousness C. publishing books on morals D. enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing D Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless, “he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s coldwater exploits(成就).Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many peiole dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are pletely crazy,’”Saunders says.In 2001, after being a skilled skier,