Australia is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that

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Australia is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country. It is also the only country that began as a prison.

As well as all that, Australia is the home of the largest living thing on Earth, the Great Barrier Reef, and of the famous Ayers Rock (or Uluru, to use its Aboriginal name). It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else. All of the world's ten most poisonous snakes are Australian. You may also be eaten by sharks or crocodiles, carried out to sea by strong currents, or left to die in extremely hot remote areas. It's a hard place.

And it is old. Perhaps 45,000 years ago, perhaps 60,000, it was quietly invaded by the Aborigines. Amazingly, it also seems that they could only get there by inventing ocean-going transport — at least 30,000 years before anyone else.

This is so extraordinary that most history books only give it one or two paragraphs. They then move on to the second invasion — the one that begins with the arrival of Captain James Cook in the ship Endeavour in Botany Bay in 1770. Apparently, it's not important that Captain Cook didn't discover Australia and that he wasn't even a captain when he arrived. For most people, including most Australians, this is where the story begins.

The world that those first Englishmen found was different to anything they had seen before. Its seasons were back to front and its constellations were upside down. Add to that, the strange animals they found there. The most typical of them, the kangaroo, did not run but bounced across the landscape, like balls. The continent was full of unusual life. There was a fish that could climb trees; a fox that flew (it was actually a very large bat); crab shells so big that a grown man could climb inside them.

Q2. Find words or phrases in the text that mean

1. continuous movements of water (paragraph 2)

2. produce for the first time (paragraph 3)

3. highly unusual (paragraph 4)

4. jump up and down (paragraph 5)