4. Northern Alaska gets the name “Land of the Midnight Sun” because ________.

　　A. it is always daytime during the summer months

　　B. it is located in the center of the Earth

　　C. it is located on the equator of the Earth

　　D. only at midnight can people there see the sun

　　5. If we want to make science research in Antarctica, we may choose the following months EXCEPT _______.

　　A. December

　　B. January

　　C. February

　　D. June

　　B

　　In early times Europeans did not know Australia was there. But they thought there must be land in the south of the world. So, about 500 years ago, on their maps of the world, they put it in a big southern continent. In those days they wrote in Latin instead of their own languages. The name they gave to this unknown continent was in Latin. It was Term Austmha. In English this is Unknown Southern Land. So when the British found this land, they called it Australia.

　　But the British were not the first Europeans to find Australia. Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch sailors all saw it earlier. That was at the beginning of the 17th century . The Dutchman Willem JansToon was actually the very first European to find the coast of north Australia. The Dutch had already named the islands Indonesia. They wanted the spices that grow there. In 1606, Janszoon sailed south to look for more spice islands. He did not find any, but he found Australia. There were no spices there, so he was not interested in it.

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