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Travelling Information in Melbourne, Australia

Tour Name: Phillip Island, Penguins, Koalas and Kangaroos

Price: Starting from AUD $115 per person

Tour Highlights

Visit Warrook, a working cattle farm. Enjoy the opportunity to pat and feed kangaroos, wallabies and host of farm animals.

Watch koalas in their natural habitat at the Koala Conservation Centre.

View impressive coastal scenery at Nobbies. From the walkway, see Australia’s largest population of fur seals living along the southern coastline.

Visit the educational and interesting Phillip Island Visitors Information Centre.

Viewing Platform Penguin Plus — More personalized wildlife viewing limited to 130 people providing closer viewing of the penguin arrival than the main viewing stand.

Additional info

This tour must be booked at least 24 hours in advance of your travel date.

Confirmation for this product will be received within 24 hours, subject to availability.

Please remember to bring warm, waterproof clothing on this tour. You may also wish to bring a towel or a rug to sit on at the Penguin Parade viewing platform.

Pricing Policy

Children aged between 3 and 14 years inclusive qualify for child rate.

Kids aged 2 years and under travel free of charge, providing they don’t occupy a coach seat.

Phillip Island, Penguins, Koalas and Kangaroos Per person Season Aug 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 2013 Tour Code Days of Week Adult Child Tour only Mon…Sun $115.00 $58.00 Tour including Viewing Platform Penguin Plus Mon…Sun $140.00 $83.00 Travel Voucher (凭)

Please download Travel Voucher from this website. For every confirmed booking you will be required to print a voucher which is presented at the destination. You will receive a link to your voucher by email once your booking is confirmed.

70. The visitors will go to all the following places EXCEPT ______.

A. Warrook Cattle farm. B. Australian Eastern coastline.

C. Koala Conservation Centre. D. Phillip Island Visitors Information Centre.

71. Which of the following groups needs to pay $58 per person?

A. Adult tourists. B. 2-year-old kids.

C. Kids between 3 and 14. D. Babies in arms.

72. Tourists are reminded to bring a towel or a rug because _____.

A. they will lie on the coast B. they may want to sit on the platform

C. it makes them warm D. they will swim during the tour

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The family does not feature heavily in the culture of the Ik of Northern Uganda. In fact, as far as the Ik are concerned, the family means very little. This is because the Ik face a daily struggle to survive in the face of drought, famine and starvation. Anyone who cannot take care of himself or herself is regarded as a useless burden by the Ik and a threat to the survival of the others. So the old are abandoned to die. Sick and disabled children too are abandoned. The Ik attitude is that, as long as you keep the breeding group alive, you can always get more children.

Ik mothers throw their children out of the village compound when they are 3 years old, to defend for themselves. I imagine children must be rather relieved to be thrown out, for in the process of being cared for, he or she is reluctantly carried about in a hide sling(背婴儿带) wherever the mother goes. Whenever the mother is in her field, she loosens the sling and lets the baby to the ground none too slowly, and laughs if it is hurt. Then she goes about her business, leaving the child there, almost hoping that some fierce animals will come along and carry it off. This sometimes happens. Such behaviour does not endear children to their parents or parents to their children.

Many of you probably reacted to the Ik with some horror and shock. It is very tempting to conclude that these people are primitive, savage and inhuman, and that their concept of the ‘family’ is deeply wrong. However, sociologists argue that it is wrong to simply judge such societies and their family arrangements as unnatural and untypical. We need to understand that such arrangements may have positive functions. In the case of the Ik, with the exceptional circumstances they find themselves in梔rought and famine梩heir thfamily arrangements help ensure the survival of the tribe.

Moreover, some of you may have concluded that British family life and the Ik have some things in common. British family is not universally experienced as positive for all family members. For some members of our own society梖or young and old alike梖amily life may be characterized by violence, abuse and isolation.nt

The problem with studying the family is that we all think we are experts. This is not surprising, considering that most of us are born in families and socialized into family roles and responsibilities. It is an institution most of us feel very comfortable with and regard as ‘natural’. For many of us, it is a cornerstone of our social world, a place to which we can retreat and take refuge from the stresses of the outside world. It is the place in which we are loved for who we are, rather than what we are. Family living and family events are probably the most important aspects of our lives. It is no wonder that we tend to hold very fierce, emotional, and perhaps irrational, views about family life and how it ought to be organized. Such ‘taken for granted’ views make it very difficult for us to objectively examine family arrangements that differ from our own experience梥uch as those of the Ik梬ithout making critical judgements.tr

73. Which of the following ideas do the Ik hold according to the passage?

A. The family is the centre of their life.

B. The old are the luxuries they should treasure.

C. Their children should be abandoned when born.

D. The survival of the tribe is what they should strive for.

74. Which of the following will the author probably agree with in the case of Ik?

A. The children are a great burden to their family.

B. Mothers prefer to carry their children here and there.

C. The children enjoy warm relationship with their parents.

D. Many children should be left at the mercy of fierce animals in the field.

75. According to the author, both British family life and that of the Ik ______.

A. contain negative elements B. ensure longevity

C. experience ups and downs D. endear family members

76. All of the following statements support “family is the cornerstone” EXCEPT that ______.

A. we turn to family as our harbour in heart

B. we find we love and are loved in the family

C. we believe family is the top priority in our life

D. we pour our bad mood upon our family members

77. The author writes this passage to tell us ______.

A. family life has various positive functions

B. the idea of family is universally accepted

C. the family is evolving with the time at a high speed

D. we should examine the concept of family objectively