As a working mom with three young sons，keeping the house clean is a big challenge.     1     we clean the house every week，one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their     2    （mess）look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them     3     it again and again.

If I don't remind them, I will step over all the things     4     make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite     5     change from my pre-kid years when I never     6     (leave) any waste in the house.     7     seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.

When last week I found a program     8     (call) Share a Healthy Habit in a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in doing chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the     9     (relax) life in summer vacation?

The goal for my boys is to clean their own bedrooms themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get     10     (old), so I need to start my plan as soon as possible.

【推荐2】Doing housework can make us keep life in order and get some exercise. As for me, I learn and get a lot     1    (much) than that.

I used to be lazy at home. Seeing this, my mother came up with     2     idea - I have to earn my pocket money by     3    (do) housework.

It changed me a lot. I have to manage my time to balance(平衡) schoolwork     4     house- work. For example, when I can't work    5     a math problem, I prefer to sweep the floor or tidy up my room     6    (clear) my mind. I will make a good plan for every coin I earn. I keep an account (账目) to check     7     something is worth buying. Once my mother told me to buy some toiletries(洗漱用品). I     8    (quick) made a list, compared prices and     9    (buy) products that were on sale. I now have a habit of managing money and I know it's great     10     my mother to look after my family so well!

This is how I learn and get from doing housework - it's a skill that lasts a lifetime.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you and 90% of life is decided by how you react. What does this mean? Let us use    1    example.

You are having breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. What happens next will    2    (determine)by how you will react.

You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She feels    3    (frighten). You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy concentrating    4    feeling sorry to finish her breakfast and get ready to go to school. She    5    (miss)the bus. You have to drive your daughter to school    6    (you). After a 15-minute delay you arrive at school. And you arrive at the office 20 minutes' time late. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse.

Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.

Here is    7    could have and should have happened. Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You     8    (gentle)say, “It's okay, honey you just need to be more careful next time." Grabbing a towel you go upstairs and get your shirt    9    (change). And you come back down in time to see your child getting on the bus. Everything goes well.

Two different scenarios. Both started the same,     10    ended different. Why? Because of how you reacted.

Does the Internet help or harm friendships? Different people have different opinions. Robert thinks talking online is no replacement for face⁃to⁃face contact. Communicating through a screen makes     1     more difficult for children to concentrate or show kindness to others. Social skills enable children     2       (develop)lifelong friendships. What’s more, the Internet     3     (make) people self⁃centred. They are only concerned with their online popularity. He also thinks friendships are built on the basis of trust. Going online can be particularly dangerous for people who are easily     4     (influence) by others.  

But Cathy holds the opposite opinion. She thinks the Internet makes communication more     5     (convenience) and more fun. People can keep in touch     6     friends wherever they are or whatever they are doing. There are also so many online tools people can use to be creative. In     7     (add), online communication can     8     (actual) bring people closer to each other. Whoever needs help can immediately get some useful     9     (suggestion) or information from all over the world,     10     makes friends feel loved and cared for.

Around the world, malnutrition (营养不良) has become a problem that costs $3.5 trillion per year, according to the latest Global Nutrition Report,    1    gives an analysis of food and nutrition issues each year.

Although most countries have fallen short in their efforts    2    (deal) with poor nutrition and food insecurity, the US appears to be badly off track, the report found. The world’s    3    (large) economy continues to suffer from high rates of obesity, diabetes and anemia (贫血), according to the data and has more than a million overweight children.

“Malnutrition is responsible for more ill-health    4    any other cause.    5    health consequences of overweight and obesity contribute to four million deaths    6    (globe).” Corinna Hawkes, director of the Center for Food Policy,    7    (write) in the report.

According to the study, most countries have at least two issues related to malnutrition. The most serious issues are children who are either overweight, anemic,    8    suffer from undeveloped growth. Overall, malnutrition contributes to about half of all childhood deaths the research showed. And those    9    (affect) may not be able to get as good a job as they could have, if they had been fed well. It also prevents them    10    (be) able to contribute to society, and the economy, as well as they would have in a healthier environment.