Apply for a Tax File Number
Everybody who receives any income in Australia needs a Tax File Number. Income includes wages or salary from a job, money earned from investments, and government payments.
Register with Medicare
The Australian Government provides help with medical expenses through a scheme called Medicare. You may be eligible（有资格的）to join Medicare and gain immediate access to health-care services and programs such as free public hospital care, help with the cost of out-of-hospital care and subsidized medicines.
To register, you should wait approximately ten working days after your arrival and then go to a Medicare office with your passport or travel documents. If you need to see a doctor urgently, you can register with Medicare without waiting ten days.
Medicare has a Welcome Kit which is translated into 16 different languages. It explains Medicare and other government health services and the eligibility requirements. This booklet is available from Medicare offices or you can read it on the internet.
Open a bank account
People in Australia usually keep their money in a bank, building society or credit union. It is advisable to open a bank account within six weeks of your arrival, as during this time you usually need only your passport as identification. After six weeks, you will need additional identification to open an account.
Register with Centrelink
Newly arrived residents can register with the government agency called Centrelink to get help with looking for work, having overseas skills recognized, and accessing relevant courses. Centrelink also has an application form for Tax File Numbers and can assist you to lodge your application with the Tax Office.
Register for English classes
English language courses for new arrivals in Australia are provided under the Adult Migrant English Program. As a new resident you may be entitled to receive free English language tuition of up to 510 hours.
Get a driver's license
If you are a permanent resident visa holder and have a current driver's license from another country, in English or with an official translation, you are allowed to drive for your first three months after arrival. After that, you will need to have the appropriate Australian driver's license. To get one, you usually need to pass a knowledge test, a practical test, and an eyesight test. Licenses from some overseas countries do not require a practical test.
1. Which of the following is true about Medicare?| A．All health-care services are free for people registered. |
| B．Medicare doesn't cover services outside hospitals. |
| C．There is a charge for Welcome Rit booklets. |
| D．It's possible to register within a week after one's arrival. |
| A．a period of free linguistic instruction |
| B．upgrading driving licenses without extra tests |
| C．part-of-the-cost-paid medicines |
| D．getting skill qualification accepted officially |
| A．A guidebook published by the Australian Government. |
| B．An advertisement in an Australian magazine. |
| C．A booklet on medical services in Australia. |
| D．An article introducing how to save money overseas. |
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【推荐1】When you’re meeting someone for the first time, you’re eager to make a good impression. Your body language can make a great difference.
★ Shake hands firmly
Weak handshakes can make you seem shy and anything but confident.
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Stand up straight, but don’t tighten up, or you may look nervous. Make sure to check your posture and straighten up as needed.
★ Keep a suitable amount of eye contact
★ Nod and smile when appropriate
Try nodding three times to show that you’re really absorbing what he is saying.
★ Laugh genuinely
Even if you’re in a formal setting, if he has clearly said something that was intended to encourage a laugh, laugh! Show him that you have a sense of humor, and you’re listening to what he is saying.
| A．Keep your posture relaxed |
| B．When it comes to smiling |
| C．Keep your feet close together |
| D．This applies to both sitting and standing |
| E．If you’re in a worrying or nervous situation |
| F．Your handshake should be firm but not too tight |
| G．It is important to keep eye contact in a conversation |
【推荐2】Need to take a screenshot (截屏) on your Windows PC?
1.
2. Find the “Print Screen” key on your keyboard. The Print Screen key is most often found in the upper-right side of the main keyboard, and it usually has “SysReq” (“System Requirements”) written below it.
3. Press the Win key and the Print Screen key at the same time. Doing so will take a screenshot of the current screen; in most cases, you’ll see the screen dim (变暗) briefly. Your screen won’t dim if your computer has certain display settings disabled. This is most common on old computers which you upgraded to Windows 10.
4.Find the screenshot. You’ll find the screenshot inside of the “Screenshots” folder (文件夹), which is inside of your computer’s “Pictures” folder.
| A．Go to the screen that you want to screenshot |
| B．If your screenshot doesn’t appear when you look for it |
| C．This perfect program can be fixed in all Windows computers |
| D．Whether you want to make a full screenshot or just one window or area |
| E．The Print Screen key will usually be printed as “PrtSc” or something similar |
| F．The recommended way for screenshots is PNG, due to the high quality and small file size |
| G．Each screenshot that you take will be marked “Screenshot (number)” to correspond with the order in which the screenshot was taken. |
【推荐3】Learning how to study effectively is an essential skill for students in any discipline. There are five areas which are crucial to developing good study habits. Work on these and you will become an effective student.
Targets
Always set a realistic work target.
Rewards
Timing
Make sure you choose a suitable time to study, i.e. when it is quiet and when you are most alert.
Quantity
A large task such as researching a new topic for an essay can be so daunting, in fact, that it can be difficult to sit down and make a start. Break the larger task down into several smaller ones. For example, make a list of questions that you will have to deal with in your essay, and then approach each question separately.
Notes and learning styles
The books you are studying won’t always present information in a way that suits your learning style. It is, therefore, worthwhile spending time making notes and organizing them in a way that suits you best.
| A．Don’t try to do too much. |
| B．This makes the work more manageable. |
| C．Develop a system of small rewards for your work. |
| D．Try to make this a regular, timetabled part of your day. |
| E．It is sometimes helpful to tell your friends about your plan. |
| F．When you set your study targets, allow regular revision time. |
| G．It is also a good idea to keep your notebooks neat and well organized. |
【推荐1】There are some special traditions in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese, Japanese and Filipino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means “I love you”.
Usually when people from different countries, races and traditions live together, there are serious problems. There are so many people living in Hawaii, but in general, people have learned to live together in peace.
Hawaiians get most of their money from visitors, and most of the visitors come from the mainland and from Japan. There are so many people living in Hawaii now that there are residential areas(住宅区) where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and pineapple companies have moved to the Philippines, where they do not have to pay workers as much money. The families of the first people who came from the U.S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are also buying or sharing businesses here.
1. The author wants to show that_________.| A．all the people in the world have to go to Hawaii |
| B．it is possible to learn to live together in peace |
| C．it is not possible to live together in peace |
| D．Hawaii is the only place where there is peace |
| A．Modem industry | B．The bank | C．The airline | D．Tourist trade |
| A．Hawaii, the Aloha State | B．The Businesses of Hawaii |
| C．The Flowers of Hawaii | D．The Problems of Hawaii |
【推荐2】We’ve known that sitting for long periods of time every day has countless health consequences, like a higher risk of heart disease. But now a new study has found that sitting is also bad for your brain.
A study published last week, conducted by Dr. Prabha Siddarth at the University of California, showed that sedentary (久坐的) behavior is associated with reduced thickness of the medial temporal lobe (中颞叶), a brain area that is critical to learning and memory.
The researchers asked a group of 35 healthy people, aged 45 to 70, about their activity levels and the average number of hours each day spent sitting and then scanned their brains. They found that the subjects who reported sitting for longer periods had the thinnest medial temporal lobes. It means that the more time you spend in a chair, the worse it is for your brain health, resulting in possible damage to learning and memory.
What is also interesting is that this study did not find a significant association between the level of physical activity and thickness of this brain area, suggesting that exercise, even severe exercise, may not be enough to protect you from the harmful effects of sitting.
It then surprisingly turned out that you don’t need to move much to enhance cognition (认知); just standing will make it. For example, two groups of subjects were asked to complete a test while either sitting or standing. Participants are presented with conflicting stimuli (刺激), like the word “green” in blue ink, and asked to name the color. Subjects thinking on their feet beat those who sat by a 32 millisecond margin.
The cognitive effects of severe physical exercise are well known. But the possibility that standing more and sitting less improves brain health could lower the bar for everyone.
I know, this all runs counter to receive ideas about deep thought, from our grade school teachers, who told us to sit down and focus, to Rodin's famous “Thinker” seated with chin on hand.
They were wrong. You can now all stand up.
1. What can we infer from Paragraphs 3 and 4?| A．Sedentary behavior will possibly damage our brain. |
| B．Severe exercise can reduce the damage of sitting. |
| C．Severe exercise can greatly improve our brain health. |
| D．Brain health has nothing to do with sedentary behavior. |
| A．keep | B．weaken | C．improve | D．decrease |
| A．Sitting more is good for our mental health. |
| B．Sitting is better when we think. |
| C．Exercise more can improve our cognition. |
| D．We should stand while thinking. |
| A．people tend to sit while thinking |
| B．physical exercise can improve our brain health |
| C．sedentary behavior leads to countless health problems |
| D．standing more can make our brain healthier |
【推荐3】Residents of several villages in Russia’s Magadan region have recently reported black snow caused by the black powder produced by an outdated, coal-powered water-heating plant. In Omsukchan and neighboring Seimchan, two villages in the Siberian far east, snow doesn’t always look the way you’d expect. In fact, sometimes it’s quite the opposite. Instead of white snow covering everything as far as the eyes can see, locals are treated to a bad view of black snow that the kids sometimes play in. Photos and videos of this disturbing scenery have been doing the rounds online every winter for years, but locals say that despite the temporary anger they express online, nothing ever changes.
Black often represents tough luck but the black snow isn’t the result of some sinister, unexplained phenomenon. Omsukchan is home to a coal-burning hot water plant that provides heating to several settlements in the area, and as temperatures drop in the winter months, more coal has to be burned in order to keep water temperatures up. This results in increasing black smoke in the atmosphere. The smoke coming out of the plant’s chimneys eventually falls to the ground, covering everything, including white snow. So the black snow that people see is simply the effect of coal pollution.
Oksana Gerasimova, the head of the Srednekansky district, tells Magadan Pravda newspaper that the plant is indeed to blame, but adds that the situation is better than it was a few years ago. It’s true that the ash and smoke collectors at the plant don’t do a perfect job, but the situation is only temporary and the black snow is apparently “not a reason to worry”.
Authorities’ plans to change the filters in the coal-burning plant to stop the pollution are underway, and they want to replace the old plant with an electricity-powered one, but it requires new sources of funding. Most of the people living in Omsukchan and Seimchan have heard that before and they are raising their hopes.
1. What causes the black snow in Russian Magadan Region?| A．Coal smoke. | B．Water pollution. | C．Shooting angle. | D．Video technology. |
| A．Evil. | B．Damp. | C．Sensitive. | D．Recreational. |
| A．It is unrelated to any plants. | B．It will worry people forever. |
| C．It will be solved in the future. | D．It receives less attention than before. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Expectant. | C．Unconcerned. | D．Reserved. |
