1、WHATS COOKING IN AUSTRALIA?To _1_(full) appreciate Australian cuisine, you have to consider the unique nature of its wildlife and geography. For one thing, there are the wide plains in the interior of the country, which are home _2_ millions of grazing animals. For another, there is Australias long
2、coastline, _3_ is next to all the riches of the sea. _4_ is no wonder then that much of Australian cuisine centres around red meat and seafood.One of the most popular red meats in Australia is also unique _5_ the continent: kangaroo. This may seem strange as the kangaroo is a national symbol of Aust
3、ralia. _6_, in recent years, kangaroos have increased in number to around 45 million. These kangaroos wander onto the roads and into cities, _7_(make) trouble. Their _8_(increase) numbers have also harmed plants and other wildlife. As _9_ consequence, the government is encouraging people to use thes
4、e animals as food, and kangaroo has become one of the most popular _10_(item) on the Australian dinner table.As for seafood, many of the first Europeans who came to Australia _11_(love) the sea. Perhaps this is one reason _12_ so many Australians live near the coast. Since the coastline is so long,
5、each region has its own dishes that are related _13_ the seafood found in its waters. The list of seafood available at the local fish market is like _14_ tour of the coast: salmon, prawns, oysters, tuna, shark, crab, and many more. However, if you want to really take _15_ the full experience, you sh
6、ould go to the fish market in Sydney early in the morning and see the fish _16_(prepare) for sale. Better yet, you can sign _17_ to go deep-sea fishing. But then, how is all this food cooked? Perhaps the favourite way of cooking food in Australia is the barbecue, or barbie. _18_(given) the fine weat
7、her, Australians love to eat outside. Casual friendliness is the key _19_ such meals. It is a time for friends and relatives _(get) together and have fun. Even strangers _20_(pass) through will be offered a seat, a cold drink, and something off the grill. Often these barbecues feature a mixed grill,
8、 which means _21_(cook) all kinds of meat, seafood, and vegetables. So, at an Australian barbecue, you dont have to eat kangaroo - or even eat meat at all - _22_ you dont want to. Beyond this, what is Australian cooking? As Australia is a diverse country _23_ people from many nations, Australian coo
9、king now has flavours and cuisines from around the globe. No matter who you are and no matter _24_ cuisine interests you, you are always sure to find a warm welcome and a full plate _25_(wait) for you in Australia.THE KIWIThe kiwi is a _1_(flight) New Zealand bird _2_ which New Zealanders are very p
10、roud. This unusual bird has become _3_ national symbol of the country. New Zealanders _4_(them) are also known all over the world as Kiwis, _5_ nickname they are very proud of. The bird has also lent its name to a small, brown, and egg-shaped fruit, the kiwi fruit, though outside New Zealand, often
11、this fruits name _6_(shorten) to kiwi. The FruitThe kiwi fruit is actually native_7_ China and was originally collected from the wild for use in medicine. In the early 1900s, the fruit spread from China to New Zealand, where farmers began to grow them _8_ sale. In the 1940s, the Americans and the Br
12、itish _9_(station) in New Zealand during the war discovered this amazing fruit, and soon after that, the kiwi fruit began to be exported to the UK and later to the US. It was _10_ the fruit began to be sold in the US that it received the nickname kiwi fruit, which was quickly shortened to kiwi. The
13、PeopleThe nickname Kiwi used to refer _11_ the country of New Zealand, but after the First World War, New Zealanders began _12_(refer) to (and to refer to themselves) by the nickname Kiwis. A large part of the reason was that there were some New Zealand soldier units that put a picture of the kiwi (
14、the bird) on their badges. Today, the birds picture is used on many New Zealand products and _13_(wear) on the sports clothes of many national sporting teams.The BirdThe kiwi bird is nocturnal, _14_(wake) up and coming out of its nest on the ground to feed only at night. It is the only bird in the w
15、orld that has its nostrils _15_ the end of its beak. All other birds have them above their beaks, close to their face. The female kiwi holds the world record for _16_(lay) the largest egg in proportion to its body size. Although the kiwi is only about the size of a chicken, the female lays a single
16、egg almost as big as an ostrich egg. The name kiwi comes from the Maori language and is _17_ imitation of the loud cry the male kiwi makes during the mating season. _18_(fortunately), the kiwi is an endangered species. It _19_(threaten) by non-native animals, such as cats and dogs, and by the _20_(l
17、ose) of its habitat. Kiwis (the people) are doing their best to save the kiwi (the bird) and there are many programmes in place for this purpose. It would, indeed, be sad _21_ New Zealands national symbol were to become extinct.THE THORN BIRDS (Adapted)Colleen McCulloughPaddy and the boys loved it.
18、Sometimes they spent days on end riding horses, miles away from home and _(camp) at night under a sky so vast and _(fill) with stars. The grey-brown land was full of life. Kangaroos in flocks of thousands _(stream) leaping through the trees, taking fences _ ease, lovely in their grace and freedom an
19、d numbers; emus built their nests in the middle of the grassy plain and walked like giants about their territorial boundaries, taking fright at anything strange and _(run) fleeter than horses away from their dark-green, football-sized eggs; termites built rusty towers like miniature skyscrapers; hug
20、e ants with a savage bite poured in rivers down holes in the ground.The bird life was so rich and varied there seemed no end _ new kinds, and they lived not in ones and twos but in thousands upon thousands: tiny green-and-yellow parakeets Fee used to call lovebirds, but which the locals called budge
21、rigars; scarlet-and-blue smallish parrots called rosellas; big pale-grey parrots _ brilliant purplish-pink breasts, underwings and heads, called galahs; and the great pure white birds with cheeky yellow combs called sulphur-crested cockatoos. The strong brown kingfishers called kookaburras laughed j
22、oyfully or dived _ snakes, their favourite food. They were almost human, all these birds, and completely _ fear, sitting in hundreds in the trees looking about with bright intelligent eyes, screaming, talking, laughing, imitating anything that _(produce) a sound. Fearsome lizards five or six feet lo
23、ng pounded over the ground and leaped easily for high tree _(branch), as at home off the earth as on it; they were goannas. And there were many other lizards, smaller but some no less _(frighten), with swollen, bright-blue tongues. Of snakes the _(vary) was almost endless, and the Clearys learned th
24、at the biggest and most dangerous-looking were often the least dangerous, _ a little creature a foot long might be a death adder; carpet snakes, copper snakes, tree snakes, red-bellied black snakes, brown snakes, lethal tiger snakes. And insects! Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, bees, flies of all s
25、izes and sorts, cicadas, gnats, dragonflies, giant moths and so many butterflies! The spiders were terrible, huge hairy things inches across, or small but _(dead) black things hiding in the toilet; some lived in vast wheeling webs _(hang) between trees, some _(rock) inside webs in the grass, others dived into little holes in the ground complete with lids which shut after them. This, thought the boys _(excited), was life. 5 / 5学科网（北京）股份有限公司
