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AUSTRALIA澳大利亚Australia is as old as time. It was probably once connected to South澳大利亚就如同时间一样古老。它很可能曾经与南美洲连接 （as old as同级比较 be connected to与。。。联系）America, but the continents separated as the earth's plates moved. Having相连，但随着地球板块的移动，这两个大陆分离开了。由于been separated from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many同其他大陆分离了几百万年之久，澳大利亚有许多（有非谓语动词的用法 be separated from 与。。。分离）plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. One strange animal世界上其他地方所没有的动植物。有一种奇怪的动物lays eggs, yet feeds its young on its milk. Kangaroos and koala bears give birth会产卵，但又给幼崽哺乳。袋鼠和考拉熊生产的幼崽都to very small and weak young. They are then carried in a pocket of folded skin很小很瘦弱。它们生下来后就被装在on the mother's stomach for several months while they feed on the mother's milk母亲肚皮上折叠式的口袋中，它们要在这儿呆上几个月，吮吸母乳，and grow stronger.There are many kinds of birds in Australia, and逐渐长壮。在澳大利亚还有很多种鹦鹉， over 140 species of snakes, many of which are extremely dangerous.以及140多种蛇，其中不少是非常危险的毒蛇。Australia is the only country in the world which covers an entire continent.澳大利亚是世界上惟一覆盖整个大陆的国家。From north to south the distance is 3,220 km and from east to west 4000 km.从北到南的距离是3,220公里，从东到西为4000公里。In area it is about the same size as the USA(without Alaska), which has more就面积上而言，它大体上相当于美国(阿拉斯加除外)，而美国的than thirteen times as many people. Today about 85% of the population of 20人口却是澳大利亚人口的13倍还多。今天澳大利亚的2，000万人口million live in the six major cities around the coast. Two thirds of the country中大约有85%都居住在沿海的六个大城市里。这个国家有2/3的is dry or desert.地方气候干燥，或是沙漠。Australia is a wealthy country. It produces metals, precious stones,澳大利亚是一个相当富裕的国家。它出产金属、宝石、coal, grain, meat and wines, and has the biggest iron mines in the world.煤、谷物、肉类和酒，而且还有世界上最大的铁矿。Australia has about one sixth of the world's sheep and produces almost one third澳大利亚的绵羊约占世界绵羊的1/6，羊毛产量几乎占世界产量of its wool. Cattle are also kept, and about 15 million tons of wheat are grown的1/3。澳大利亚还饲养牛，并且每年大约生产1，500万吨小麦。every year. Fruit and vegetables are grown in area where there is enough water.水源充足的地区还种植水果和蔬菜。A long fence runs for hundreds of kilometres across Australia. The purpose有一条横贯澳大利亚长达数百公里的栅栏，它是of the fence is to keep out a type of wild dog called a“dingo”. Dingoes hunt at用来阻止一种叫dingo的野狗的。这种野狗夜间night and like to attack sheep. Farms in the middle of Australia are so large出来猎食，喜欢袭击羊群。澳大利亚中部的that farmers use motor bikes or helicopters for the task of rounding up the sheep农场很大，以致农场主要用摩托车或直升飞机来赶羊or cattle.或赶牛。The climate is different depending on the area. The south has cool, wet气候随地区的不同而有区别。南部地区的冬季凉爽而winters and warm, dry summers. The north has warm, dry winters and hot,湿润，夏季则温暖而干燥。北部地区的冬季温暖而干燥，夏季则炎热wet summers. The center of Australia is hot and dry all the year round.而潮湿。澳大利亚的中部则一年四季都炎热而干燥。因为这样的Because of such a climate, much of daily life happens outdoors. Australians气候条件，所以大部分的日常生活都是在户外进行的。澳大利亚人love sports and win world competitions in tennis, sailing and swimming. If you喜欢体育运动，在网球、赛艇、游泳项目上经常在世界比赛中取胜。如果你are asked to an Australian home, you will probably eat outside and cook meat被邀请去澳大利亚人的家里做客，你很可能会在户外进餐，并在火上烤肉or fish on an open fire. At weekends many Australians go walking and camping或烤鱼。周末的时候，许多澳大利亚人都到乡村去散步或露营，in the countryside, called the“bush”. For holidays, many people visit the他们称乡村为“丛林地”。节假日里，许多人参观澳大利亚Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast of Australia, which has more than 600 islands.东北海岸的大堡礁，它是由600多个岛屿构成的。

There are many different varieties of bee. Some live in large groups like the honey-bee, and make their nests in trees or holes in the rocks. Other species make their nests in holes in the ground. There are also varieties that do not live in groups at all. Among the different kinds of bee, it is the honey-bee that has interested scientists most because of the "language" they use to communicate with each other. The development of the modem beehive in 1851 made it possible to design experiments to research the language of honey-bees.Professor Karl von Frisch, a scientist from Austria, spent many years of his life researching the amazing ways honey-bees communicate in their dark hives. After working with bees for many years, Professor yon Frisch was puzzled by something he had noticed again and again. When he placed little dishes of honey on a table, bees soon came. As soon as one bee discovered the honey, many more came to it one after another in a short time. It seemed that one bee was able to communicate the news of food to other bees in its hive. How was this possible? To find out, von Frisch built special hives, each with only one honeycomb. He built a transparent wall through which he could observe what went on inside. In order to tell the bees apart, he painted some bees with little dots of colour.When a marked bee returned to the hive from the feeding table, von Frisch watched through the glass. To his surprise, the bee began to perform a dance on the surface of the honeycomb. First it made a circle to the right, then to the left. It repeated these circles over and over again. But that was not all. The dance seemed to excite the surrounding bees. They trooped behind the first dancer, copying its movements. Then the bees left the hive and went to the feeding place. The circle dance seemed to communicate news of food. But what else?Von Frisch assumed that the dance conveyed more information. To find out whether his assumption was correct, he set up two feeding places. One was close to the hive, the other was much farther away, beyond some trees. He marked all the bees that came to the nearby feeding place blue, and all the bees that went to the far-away place red. When the bees came back to the hive, yon Frisch saw a curious sight. All the bees that had been at the nearby feeding place were doing the circling dance. The bees that had been at the distant feeding place were doing a completely different dance, a wagging dance. The dancer ran in a straight line, wagging from side to side. Then it turned in a semicircle, ran straight again, and turned in another semicircle to the opposite side. It kept repeating the "steps" over and over. Things were clear now. It was evident that the circle dance told the bees about the location of the feeding place. It was also apparent that the wagging dance, where the bee moved sideways, sent another message about the feeding place.Next, von Frisch and his colleagues set up a feeding place close to the hive. Then they slowly moved it farther and farther away. Back at the hive they watched the wagging dance closely. With a stop-watch, they counted how many times the bees repeated the dance during one minute. They discovered that the farther away the feeding station was, the slower the dance was. So another astonishing fact came to light. The number of wagging dances per minute told the exact distance to the feeding place. They also found out that bees fly a maximum distance of 3.2 kilometres between their hive and a feeding place.The remaining question for Professor von Frisch and his partners was to find out whether bees could tell each other the exact position of a feeding place. For example, was it possible for bees to communicate precise details such as north, south, southwest and southeast? To answer the question, Professor von Frisch and his colleagues would have to obtain enough data to provide an adequate account of the bees' behaviour. After designing more experiments, they were able to clarify the procedure by which bees communicate information that they use to find and fetch food.When honey-bees have discovered a feeding place, they fly directly to it from the hive. After a short time a line of bees fly to and from the hive like a thin stream. Centuries ago, the word "'bee-line" was created and today the expression "to make a beeline for someone or something" means to go quickly along a straight course for somebody or something.For his lifetime's work in studying the communication of animals, including honey-bees, Professor Karl von Frisch was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1973, which he shared with two other scientists. He died in 1982.有许多不同种类的蜜蜂。一些住在大群体像蜜蜂，筑巢在树上或岩石洞里。其他物种筑巢在地下的洞穴中。也有一些品种，不生活在一起。在不同种类的蜂是蜜蜂，而最使科学家们感兴趣的“语言”，他们使用的相互沟通。发展现代蜂房1851可以设计实验，研究蜜蜂的语言。教授卡尔·冯·弗里斯，来自奥地利的科学家，一生中花了许多年的研究令人惊奇的方式沟通，在黑暗的蜜蜂。在蜜蜂工作多年，教授弗里斯感到困惑，他反复注意到的事。他把一小碟蜂蜜放在桌子上，蜜蜂很快就过来了。一旦一只蜜蜂发现了蜂蜜，更多了一个又一个在很短的时间。似乎蜜蜂能够把食物的信息传递给其他蜜蜂在蜂箱。这怎么可能呢？找出，冯·弗里斯建立了专用的蜂箱，每个只有一个蜂窝。他建立了一个透明的墙，通过他可以观察到里面。为了区别这些蜜蜂，他在一些蜜蜂与颜色的小点。当一个标记的蜜蜂回到从进料表，冯弗里斯看到透过玻璃。使他惊奇的是，蜜蜂开始执行一个蜂巢上跳舞。先向右转一圈，再向左转。它一遍又一遍地重复这些圆。但这不是全部。舞蹈似乎使周围的蜜蜂兴奋。它们跟在后面的第一个舞者，模仿它的动作。然后蜜蜂离开蜂房和喂食的地方去。圆圈舞似乎传递食物的信息。但其他的什么？冯弗里斯认为，舞蹈传达更多信息。找到他的假设是否正确，他成立了两家饲养场所。一个靠近蜂箱，另一个是远得多，除了一些树。他所有的蜜蜂来到附近的喂食蓝，和所有的蜜蜂，到远处红色。当蜜蜂回到蜂巢，弗里斯看到了一个奇怪的现象。所有的蜜蜂已在附近的喂食做旋转舞。蜜蜂已在远处喂食的地方做完全不同的舞，摇摆舞。舞蹈的直线跑，左右摇摆。然后它转半个圈，再沿直线跑，并在另一个半圆的对面。它不停地重复“步骤”。现在明白了。很明显，圆圈舞告诉有关喂食点位置的。它也很明显，摇摆舞，如果蜜蜂横盘，发出另一条消息的喂养的地方。下一步，冯·弗里斯和他的同事们建起了一个喂食点靠近蜂箱。然后，他们慢慢地把它移到越来越远。他们回到蜂房旁，仔细观察摆尾舞。用秒表，他们指望有多少次，蜜蜂在一分钟内重复跳舞的。他们发现喂食处越远，跳得越慢。所以另一个令人吃惊的光。在每分钟摆尾的次数表明到喂食处的精确距离。他们还发现，蜜蜂的最大飞行距离为3.2公里的蜂房和喂食的地方。剩下的问题，冯弗里斯教授和他的合作伙伴是找出是否蜜蜂告诉对方的确切位置的一个位置。例如，它可能是蜜蜂传递精确的细节如北，南，西南和东南部？回答这个问题，冯弗里斯教授和他的同事们将获得足够的数据提供足够的帐户的蜜蜂的行为。设计出更多的实验之后，他们能够澄清程序，交流信息，他们使用查找和获取食物。当蜜蜂发现一个喂食点，他们从蜂箱直接飞往那里。经过短暂的时间线，飞离蜂箱的蜜蜂像一条小溪。几百年前，“'bee-line”是今天的表达”作出直线为某人或某事”的方式去迅速地沿着一条路线的人或事物。他的一生都在研究动物的交流，包括蜜蜂，教授卡尔·冯·弗里斯被授予诺贝尔奖1973，他和其他科学家。他死在1982次。

AUSTRALIA澳大利亚Australia is as old as time. It was probably once connected to South澳大利亚就如同时间一样古老。它很可能曾经同南美洲America, but the continents separated as the earth's plates moved. Having相连，但随着地球板块的移动，这两个大陆分离开了。由于been separated from other continents for millions of years, Australia has many同其他大陆分离了几百万年之久，澳大利亚有许多plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. One strange animal世界上其他地方所没有的动植物。有一种奇怪的动物lays eggs, yet feeds its young on its milk. Kangaroos and koala bears give birth会产卵，但又给幼崽哺乳。袋鼠和考拉熊生产的幼崽都to very small and weak young. They are then carried in a pocket of folded skin很小很瘦弱。它们生下来后就被装在on the mother's stomach for several months while they feed on the mother's milk母亲肚皮上折叠式的口袋中，它们要在这儿呆上几个月，吮吸母乳，and grow stronger.There are many kinds of birds in Australia, and逐渐长壮。在澳大利亚还有很多种鹦鹉， over 140 species of snakes, many of which are extremely dangerous.以及140多种蛇，其中不少是非常危险的毒蛇。Australia is the only country in the world which covers an entire continent.澳大利亚是世界上惟一覆盖整个大陆的国家。From north to south the distance is 3,220 km and from east to west 4000 km.从北到南的距离是3,220公里，从东到西为4000公里。In area it is about the same size as the USA(without Alaska), which has more就面积上而言，它大体上相当于美国(阿拉斯加除外)，而美国的than thirteen times as many people. Today about 85% of the population of 20人口却是澳大利亚人口的13倍还多。今天澳大利亚的2，000万人口million live in the six major cities around the coast. Two thirds of the country中大约有85%都居住在沿海的六个大城市里。这个国家有2/3的is dry or desert.地方气候干燥，或是沙漠。Australia is a wealthy country. It produces metals, precious stones,澳大利亚是一个相当富裕的国家。它出产金属、宝石、coal, grain, meat and wines, and has the biggest iron mines in the world.煤、谷物、肉类和酒，而且还有世界上最大的铁矿。Australia has about one sixth of the world's sheep and produces almost one third澳大利亚的绵羊约占世界绵羊的1/6，羊毛产量几乎占世界产量of its wool. Cattle are also kept, and about 15 million tons of wheat are grown的1/3。澳大利亚还饲养牛，并且每年大约生产1，500万吨小麦。every year. Fruit and vegetables are grown in area where there is enough water.水源充足的地区还种植水果和蔬菜。A long fence runs for hundreds of kilometres across Australia. The purpose有一条横贯澳大利亚长达数百公里的栅栏，它是of the fence is to keep out a type of wild dog called a“dingo”. Dingoes hunt at用来阻止一种叫dingo的野狗的。这种野狗夜间night and like to attack sheep. Farms in the middle of Australia are so large出来猎食，喜欢袭击羊群。澳大利亚中部的that farmers use motor bikes or helicopters for the task of rounding up the sheep农场很大，以致农场主要用摩托车或直升飞机来赶羊or cattle.或赶牛。The climate is different depending on the area. The south has cool, wet气候随地区的不同而有区别。南部地区的冬季凉爽而winters and warm, dry summers. The north has warm, dry winters and hot,湿润，夏季则温暖而干燥。北部地区的冬季温暖而干燥，夏季则炎热wet summers. The center of Australia is hot and dry all the year round.而潮湿。澳大利亚的中部则一年四季都炎热而干燥。因为这样的Because of such a climate, much of daily life happens outdoors. Australians气候条件，所以大部分的日常生活都是在户外进行的。澳大利亚人love sports and win world competitions in tennis, sailing and swimming. If you喜欢体育运动，在网球、赛艇、游泳项目上经常在世界比赛中取胜。如果你are asked to an Australian home, you will probably eat outside and cook meat被邀请去澳大利亚人的家里做客，你很可能会在户外进餐，并在火上烤肉or fish on an open fire. At weekends many Australians go walking and camping或烤鱼。周末的时候，许多澳大利亚人都到乡村去散步或露营，in the countryside, called the“bush”. For holidays, many people visit the他们称乡村为“丛林地”。节假日里，许多人参观澳大利亚Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast of Australia, which has more than 600 islands.东北海岸的大堡礁，它是由600多个岛屿构成的。囧Angel 希望对你有帮助哦

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Festivals and celebrations

●Festivals and celebrations of all kindshave been held everywheresinceancient times.

自古以来，世界各地就有各种各样的节目和庆典。

●Most ancient festivals would celebratethe end of cold weather, planting inspring and harvest inautumn.

大多数古老的节日总是庆祝严寒的结束，春季的种植和秋天的收割。

●Sometimes celebrations would be heldafter hunters hadcaught animals.

有时，在猎人捕获猎物后，也举行庆祝活动。

●At that time people would starve if food wasdifficult to find, especially during thecold winter months.

在那个时代，如果食物难以找到，特别是在寒冷的冬月，人们就会挨饿，

●Today'sfestivals have many origins, some religious,some seasonal, andsome for specialpeople or events.

现在的节日有很多由来，一些是宗教上的，一些是季节性的，一些是纪念特殊的人和事件的。

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