Australia澳大利亞風(fēng)土人情(英文版)

AustraliaQuizQ1:what’sthecapitalofAustraliaQ3:Inwhichcitywerethe2000thOlympicGamesheld?CanberraEnglishSydneyQ2:What’stheofficiallanguage?ThebackgroundsofAustralia

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LandThePeopleTheGovernmentTheCapital

CitiesGeographicallyisolatedAttractionsGeographicallyisolated?It’sthesmallestcontinentintheworldandit’sthebiggestislandintheworld.WesternAustraliaNorthernTerritorySouth

AustraliaNewSouthWalesQueenslandVictoriaTasmaniaAustraliaCapitalTheLandLandarea:approximately7,750,000sqkmClimate:generallyaridtosemiarid;temperateinsouth

andeast;tropicalinnorth

Terrain:mostlylowplateauwithdeserts;fertileplaininsoutheast

ThePeoplePopulation:

21,700,000(March2009)Populationgrowthrate:

0.87%Ethnicgroups:

Caucasian[k?’ke??n]92%,Asian7%,aboriginalandother1%(2001)Languages:

English79.1%,Chinese2.1%,Italian1.9%,other11.1%,unspecified5.8%(2009)TheGovernmentConventionalname:慣用名

CommonwealthofAustraliaCapital:

Canberra['k?nb?r?]

Governmenttype:

democratic,明主政治[dem?‘kr?t?k]Administrativedivisions:行政劃分

6states(SouthAustralia,NewSouthWales,Queensland,Victoria,TasmaniaandWesternAustralia)and2territories(NorthernTerritoryandtheAustralianCapitalTerritory)TheGovernmentIndependence:

1January1901(federationofUKcolonies)Nationalholiday:

AustraliaDay,26JanuarySuffrage:[‘s?fr?d?]

選舉權(quán)18yearsofage;universalandcompulsoryLegalsystem:

basedonEnglishcommonlawTheAustralianFlagTheAustralianCoatofArmsCanberraPopulation–327,0001908–sitechosenforAustralia’scapitalNationalMuseum

ParliamentHouse國(guó)會(huì)大廈SydneyPopulation–4.2mLargestandoldestcityinAustraliaHosted2000OlympicsFamouslandmarks–TheSydneyHarbourBridge悉尼港口大橋,TheSydneyOperaHouse,BondiBeach邦迪海灘

NotthecapitalbutthebiggestcityinAustraliaIfyouareinSydney,youmustvisitoneofthelongestbridgesintheworld-theSydneyHarbourBridge…TheOperaHouseBondiBeach邦迪海灘

InSydneytherearethirtybeautifulbeachesMelbourneAustralianOpenTennisChampionships澳網(wǎng)MelbourneAustralianMelbourneAlbert

Park墨爾本阿爾伯特公園

MelbourneCup墨爾本賽馬日

MelbourneCricketGround(MCG)墨爾本板球場(chǎng)

Melbourneisthecenteroffashionandart.Anditisafamoustravelingresort.Currency1AUD=6.2435CNYCurrency