【推荐1】It’s a parent’s job to love and guide kids and most parents will do this as long as they live. That means you have many years ahead to share with your mom and dad. Here are some ways you can stay close, get along and build a strong relationship with your parents:

Spend time together. It might be easy to be physically in the same place with your mom or dad.     1     Instead of playing a computer game or watching TV, ask your mom or dad to play with you.

Share your feelings and ask for help. Many kids say they’d like their parents to help them when they’re upset. But your mom or dad might not know that you’re having a problem.     2     If you don’t usually do this, it may sound funny at first. Try it and you’ll be glad you did.

Be kind.     3     You can brighten a parent’s day with a hug, a card, or a joke. It’s also lovely when a kid offers to help clean up his or her room without being asked. And if you try not to fight with your brothers or sisters, your parents might be so pleased that they’ll do a silly dance around the kitchen!

Show your care. Some families are always kissing, hugging, and saying “I love you.”     4     But it’s important to show that you care for each other. In addition to kisses and hugs, kids and parents show their love by respecting each other, and being warm, polite, and thoughtful.

    5     You don’t have to be perfect, but when you do your best, you make your parents proud. It makes them happy to see how you’re turning into such a great kid. Why? Because it lets them know they’re doing a good job.

A．Do your best at whatever you do.

B．Other families don’t follow the same pattern.

C．Little things might mean a lot to your mom or dad.

D．Tell a parent when you’re sad or struggling with something.

E．And nothing invites communication like being asked a good question!

F．But how much time do you spend just enjoying each other’s company?

G．Be a good listener.

【推荐3】Countless parents have kids who just want to eat chickens pasta, or macaroni and cheese, and definitely without any vegetables. So what’s a parent to do?    1    . We reached out to experts on healthy eating for kids, and they had a ton of great advice.

Make food interesting. Lori Day, an educational psychologist, thought that if kids found it interesting, they would be more likely to try it. So Day let her daughter shell peas, count them, sort them by size and play with them before putting them in the pot.    2    . "Make food interesting if your child is naturally curious and is willing to engage,” Day said.

    3    . Several parents talked about how bringing their children with them to the farmers market or the grocery store and having them help with the cooking can get them more excited and invested in what they are eating. Kids can be inspired to eat healthy when they are part of the meal, said Margaret McSweeney, host of the podcast Kitchen Chat. "A trip to the local farmers market can connect them with the source of food."

Give kids choices. Amy, an infant-child psychologist said that from a young age, parents should let their kids choose foods and snacks they like, within reason. “Give them more room to choose as they get older,n she added. And never get into a power struggle with your kids about eating, she said.     4    

Model healthy eating. Our kids can be influenced to make better choices if they watch us doing the same.

Pam Moore, founder of the blog, whatever, says her kids always see her and husband eating healthy.       5    . I often keep sliced veggies washed, sliced and ready to eat for snacks. Our children will ask for bites as time goes on, as they like to copy what we do," said Moore.

A．First, don't stress.

B．Inspire kids to eat healthy.

C．Get the kids to be involved.

D．Her daughter loved eating them raw or cooked.

E．Make sure you are not over controlling or overeducating them.

F．Both my husband and I typically add greens to our eggs at breakfast.

G．We talk about food colors and how it is healthiest to make meals with various colors.

【推荐3】By now, most people know they should be eating more vegetables. But are there ways to get more from the vegetables you already eat? A research shows that when it comes to vegetables, it’s not only how much we eat, but also how we prepare them, that decides the vitamins and other nutrients that enter our body.

Many studies show that people who eat lots of vegetables have less heart disease, and eye problems and even cancer. But raw vegetables are not always best. The researchers found that 198 Germans who eat raw food were short of lycopene, the matter found in tomatoes and other red vegetables. “There is an idea that raw foods are always going to be better,” says Steven K. Clinton, a professor at Ohi o State University. “For fruits and vegetables, sometimes a little bit of cooking can be helpful.”

A number of factors decide how the vegetables do good to people’s health before they reach the table, including where and how they were grown and stored before being bought. No single cooking way is best. Some nutrients are easily lost in cooking if they are cooked in different ways.

Vitamins C and B are often lost. In January, another report said that boiling was better for carrots than frying or serving them raw. Frying was the worst way to cook.

What cooked with the vegetables can also be important? When the vegetables were cooked with fat, the diners can get more nutrients. Fat can also make the taste of vegetables better, meaning that people will eat more of them. Putting on some other things that make it taste better—a little salt—can make the food taste better.

1. The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.

A．people should eat more vegetables

B．the way people eat vegetables is important

C．eating vegetables is good for us

D．how much vegetables one should eat

2. The people who eat the raw vegetables for a long time will ________.

A．have the eyes problems	B．have heart disease
C．be in need of lycopene	D．hate eating tomatoes

3. The following decide how the vegetables do good to people EXCEPT ________.

A．the place where the vegetables are grown

B．the way how the vegetables are stored

C．the way how the vegetables are prepared

D．the price at which the vegetable are sold

4. From the last paragraph, we can know ________.

A．It’s better to cook vegetables with fat

B．the more fat in the cooking, the fewer vegetables people will eat

C．It’s better to cook the vegetables without salt

D．the fat will increase the nutrition of the vegetables