Robert is nine years old and Joanna is seven. They live at Mount Ebenezer. Their father has a big property. In Australia they call a farm a property.
Robert and Joana like school very much. At school they can talk to their friends, but Robert and Joanna can not see their friends. They live 100,perhaps 300,miles away and like Robert and Joanna, they all go to school by radio.
Mount Ebenezer is in the centre of Australia. Not many people in “The Centre”, there are no schools with desks and blackboards and no teachers in “The Centre”.  School is a room at home with a two-way radio. When all students answer, lessons begin.
Think of your teacher 300 miles away!
【小题1】The children in “The Centre” do not go to school because _____________.

A．they live too far away from one another

B．they do not like school

C．they are not old enough to go to school

D．their families are too poor

【小题2】In order to send their children to school, parents in “The Centre” of Australia must have ___________________.

A．a property	B．a car
C．a school room at home	D．a special radio

【小题3】When children are having a lesson, they can hear their teacher ______________.

A．but their teacher cannot hear them

B．and their teacher can hear them too

C．but can not hear their schoolmates.

D．and see him or her at the same time.

【小题4】A “property” in Australia is a _________________.

A．house

B．school

C．farm

D．radio

Dear Editor(编辑),
I used to be a doctor in a children’s hospital. Sometimes I treated children who had been poisoned（中毒）by medicines for older family members. The children didn’t know the medicine was dangerous; they just knew it tasted sweet. Children easily opened the bottle that we now use in China.
Some days ago I talked about medicine with an American. He showed me a kind of plastic bottle. The design was very quite simple and I’m sure our Chinese factories could produce these bottles. The top of the bottle locks but can be opened by pressing down on it while turning. This is difficult for most young children to do, though grown-ups can open these bottles very easily.
I’m certain that the price of making such tops would be very low. As a doctor, I’d love to see this done. And most parents would be grateful.
Yours,
Li Hua
【小题1】The writer’s job in the hospital was mainly to________.

A．treat sick children	B．treat poisoned children
C．give medicine to people	D．give medicine to children

【小题2】The doctor seems to be ________.

A．happy about China’s hospital

B．angry with what has happened

C．anxious to solve the problem

D．pleased with his invention

【小题3】The doctor thinks that we should ________.

A．study the Americans

B．buy that kind of bottle

C．produce this kind of plastic bottle

D．turn to Americans for help

【小题4】The letter was written to the editor to ask for______.

A．money from the newspaper

B．the plastic bottles from the readers

C．medicine from the editor

D．support from the Chinese factories