阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分）

A）阅读下列短文，根据短文内容从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案
A
    Tom lives a long way from the city. One day he goes to the city to buy something in a shop, and after he buys them, he goes into a restaurant and sits down at a table. When he looks round, he sees some old people put eye glasses on before reading their books, so after lunch he goes to a shop to buy some glasses, too. He walks along the road, and soon finds a shop. The man in the shop makes him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always says, “No, I can’t read with these.”
    The man becomes more and more puzzled(困惑). At last he says, “Excuse me, but can’t you read at all?”
    “No, I can’t,” Tom says, “If I can read, do you think I come here to buy glasses?”
56.Tom meets some old people________ .        .
      A. far away from the city                   B. in the shop
      C. in the restaurant                           D. in the park
   57.When does Tom go to the shop?      .
      A. After lunch                      B. Before lunch    
C. In the morning                  D. In the evening
58. Tom goes to a restaurant to ________ .     
   A. buy eye glasses                B. have lunch   
C. buy some books                 D. sell eye glasses
59.Before reading their books the old people in the restaurant________       
   A. drink tea                              B. take their glasses off    
   C. buy glasses                           D. put their glasses on
60.In fact(事实上)Tom________         .
  A. likes eye glasses              B. goes to the wrong shop
  C. can’t read at all                D. knows the man in the shop

B
    Australia is nearly as large as the Unite States, but most of it is too dry(干燥) for people to live in. Around this dry part are large sheep and cow farms. A few of them are as large as the smallest states in America. Often the nearest neighbours（邻居）are several hundred kilometers away.
    The two-way radio is very important to people who live on these great Australian farms. It works much like a telephone. A person can listen to someone else talk and then give an answer. For example, people on the large farm could talk to a doctor far away. They could talk to a doctor about someone who is ill, and the doctor can let them know how to look after the patient(病人).
    As the large farms are so far from towns, the children can’t go to school. Radio schools are started for them in some places. At a certain time each day, boys and girls turn on their radios and listen to teachers in cities far away.
Families on the large farms want to give news to their neighbours. The programme (节目)“Round Robin” talks are started to keep families in touch with each other. They can talk about who is going away and who is ill. The men can talk about their sheep and cows and how much money the markets will pay for them. In many ways the radio becomes a newspaper for the farms of Australia.
61. The passage tells us that______.
A. Australia is larger than the U.S.       
B. Australia farms are as large as American states
C. Many Australians live on the dry land. 
D. Australia is mainly made up of dry land and farms.
62.By using a two-way radio the farmers_____.
A.can only listen to some news
B. needn’t look after the sheep and cows by themselves.
C.can listen to and talk to each other.     
D. can sell their sheep and cows at a better price (价钱).
63The children on the large farms_____.
A. can have lesson on the radios.        
B. can go to the schools near their homes.
C. can not listen to teachers in cities.     
D. can have lessons at any time every day.
64The radio is nearly the same as_____.
A. a telephone      B. a doctor     C. a newspaper    D. a market
65The best title of this passage is _____.
A. Australian farms                 B. A useful radio
C. Australia-a beautiful country            D. Round robin –a programme