麻烦给我写一篇提示英语作文!关于澳大利亚!

麻烦给我写一篇提示英语作文!关于澳大利亚!
1、50词左右 2、澳大利亚是一个大国,也是一个说英语的国家.3、它位于中国的东南部,首都是堪培拉.4、国旗的颜色和图案.5、特有的动物—袋鼠 6、漂亮的沙滩
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浣犲彲浠ヨ嚜宸辩瓫閫変竴涓婞br/>Australia ,officially the Commonwealth of Australia,is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent (the world's smallest),the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia,East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north,the Solomon Islands,Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the northeast and New Zealand to the southeast.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century,Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians,who belonged to one or more of the roughly 250 language groups.After sporadic visits by fishermen from the immediate north and discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606,Australia's eastern half was claimed by the British in 1770 and initially settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales,founded on 26 January 1788.The population grew steadily in the following years; the continent was explored and an additional five largely self-governing Crown Colonies were established during the 19th century.
On 1 January 1901,the six colonies became a federation and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed.Since Federation,Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and is a Commonwealth realm.The population is 22 million,with approximately 60% concentrated in and around the mainland state capitals of Sydney,Melbourne,Brisbane,Perth and Adelaide.The nation's capital city is Canberra,in the Australian Capital Territory.
A prosperous developed country,Australia is the world's thirteenth largest economy.Australia ranks highly in many international comparisons of national performance such as human development,quality of life,health care,life expectancy,public education,economic freedom and the protection of civil liberties and political rights.Australia is a member of the United Nations,G20,Commonwealth of Nations,ANZUS,OECD,APEC,Pacific Islands Forum and the World Trade Organization.璧炲悓0| 璇勮?2010-8-20 20:54 ngyuksim | 浜岀骇
Australia:An introduction
In land area,Australia is the sixth largest nation after Russia,Canada,China,the United States of America and Brazil.It has,however,a relatively small population.
Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.The mainland is the largest island and the smallest,flattest continent on Earth.It lies between 10掳 and 39掳 South latitude.
The highest point on the mainland,Mount Kosciuszko,is only 2228 metres.Apart from Antarctica,Australia is the driest continent.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth.Its interior has one of the lowest rainfalls in the world and about three-quarters of the land is arid or semi-arid.Its fertile areas are well-watered,however,and these are used very effectively to help feed the world.Sheep and cattle graze in dry country,but care must be taken with the soil.Some grazing land became desert when the long cycles that influence rainfall in Australia turned to drought.
The Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories.Most inland borders follow lines of longitude and latitude.The largest State,Western Australia,is about the same size as Western Europe.
Natural environment
Australia has a remarkable diversity of life forms seen nowhere else in the world.Australian plants and animals evolved in isolation from other parts of the world.When the super-continent of Gondwanaland split up about 160 million years ago,Australia joined Antarctica and drifted towards the South Pole,where glaciers formed a barrier between it and other land masses.
Over the past 45 million years,Australia has moved away from Antarctica towards the equator and become warmer and more arid.About 35 million years ago,eucalypts began to displace the dense forests of the cool,damp Tertiary era.
Today Australian eucalypts account for more than half of all eucalypts found throughout the world.
The marsupials native to Australia have a different chromosome structure than mammals in other parts of the world.Typically,they suckle their young in a pouch.
Like the eucalypts,marsupials occupied a wide range of ecological niches in Australia.The first kangaroo marsupials seem to have appeared about 15 million years ago.They vary enormously in size and adaptation.A species of tropical kangaroo lives in trees,but most kangaroos are tough,efficient users of dry bush.
As the world climate warmed and glaciers melted,oceans gradually rose to their current level and the land bridges to New Guinea and Tasmania were cut.Corals colonised a flooded coastal plain,forming the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland.
Ancient plants still grow in the wild.Large 'Antarctic' tree ferns are common in damp,shaded gullies on the south sides of ridges.Cycad palms form an understorey to tall,silvery spotted gums (eucalypts) along the south-east coast.Rare relics from earlier geological eras are found in small,special habitats,such as desert canyons.
Pressure on native habitats from agriculture and introduced pests like the fox and rabbit have resulted in extinctions of some native species in the past 200 years.Australia now has a strong scientific and legal framework to deal with these issues.Australians care about their unique environment.
History
More than 60 000 years before the arrival of European settlers,Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples inhabited most areas of the Australian European settlement in 1788.However,there were an estimated 300 000 Indigenous Australians living on the continent.
Until recently,Western historians focused on early European contact with the Australian continent during the 16th and 17th centuries.
In recent years this approach has been balanced by the recognition that Asian and Oceanic explorers and traders had contact with Indigenous Australian people long before the European expansion into the eastern hemisphere.
After the American War of Independence,Britain looked to establish new penal settlements to replace the north Atlantic colonies.The First Fleet of 11 ships with 1500 aboard,half of them convicts,arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788.Sydney grew from that first British penal settlement.
Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales ceased in 1840,but continued to Western Australia until 1868.About 160 000 convicts arrived over 80 years.That compares with free settler arrivals as high as 50 000 a year.
During the 1850s,settlement was boosted by gold rushes.Scarcity of labour,the vastness of the bush,and new wealth based on farming,mining and trade all contributed to the development of uniquely Australian social institutions and sensibilities.