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　　The Museum of Childhood is Australia’s most comprehensive collection of childhood items including toys , dolls , infant and school material .
　　Housed in a modern facility , the displays reflect Australian childhood experience over time including play , child rearing , orphanage childhood , and home , school , and war time experience .
　　There are many hands ?on exhibits and education sessions including the famous ‘lesson’ in the 1920s One Teacher Bush Classroom .
　　The Museum also hosts national touring exhibitions and conducts special activities on Sundays and school holidays（ring for details ）.
　　Open: Tuesday- Friday 10am ? 4pm , Sunday 10am ? 4:30 pm , or by arrangement .
　　Special activities on Sundays as advertise .
　　Closed: Public holidays ,16 December-18 January .
　　Location: Edith Cowan University campus , Bay Road , Claremont (tas 208 and alight at the Bay Road and Princess Road intersection . The Museum is 15 minutes’ walk from Claremont train station )
　　Tel :(08) 9442 1373 ; Fax ; (08 ) 9442 1314
　　56．On you can stay at the Museum until half past four .
　　A．Wednesday B．Friday C．Sunday D．Monday
　　57．If you want to attend a special activity , you’d better come on .
　　A．Monday B．Tuesday C．Saturday D．Sunday
　　58．When you come on December 20th , Friday ,you will find the Museum .
　　A．closed B．holding special activities
　　C．not closed until 4:00 D．not closed until 4:30
　　59．The main purpose of the Museum of Childhood is to .
　　A．display toys , dolls , infant and school material
　　B．reflect Australian childhood experience over time
　　C．host national touring exhibition
　　D．tell you the famous ‘lesson’ in the 1920s
　　B
　　WASHINGTON-Laura Straub is a very worried woman . Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer .
　　It’s not easy , even desperate .
　　“We have many children left to place :40 out of 75,” said Straub , who works for a Paris-based foreign ? exchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago , family life was more accommodating . For one thing , more mothers stayed home .
　　But now , increasing numbers of women wortside the home . Exchange-student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30,000 teenagers who annually come from abroad to spend and academic year in the United States , as well as the thousands more who participate in summer programmes .
　　School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting non-taxpaying students , have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept . At the same time , the idea of hosting foreign students is becoming less exotic.