1 . In primary schools and middle schools, students will have at least 1 labor class every week. If students show interest in it, they can have 2 labor classes every week. They need to learn how to do housework, such as doing some cleaning and cooking food. According to the Ministry of Education, there is a new plan for students in China. The plan has 3 kinds of tasks: everyday chores, productive labor (生产劳动) and service.
Primary school students in first and second grades need to do some cleaning, like washing vegetables, peeling fruit and learning to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals. It sounds interesting. Third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their clothes and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes. Fifth and sixth graders should learn the skill of cooking two or three common dishes. It seems a little difficult.
For middle school students, they are encouraged to cook three or four dishes by themselves, learn one or two kinds of traditional skills and experience one or two kinds of new technologies, modern service or voluntary work. Students can be independent and learn to help others through these activities.
Students in primary schools and middle schools have different kinds of classes about housework. They can learn some useful knowledge from labor classes. When they get home, they can also use the knowledge to help their parents with housework. Schools should also use different ways to help parents know the importance of labor education. And it is important to help parents make housework lists to improve students’ abilities. The labor classes catch people’s attention. A lot of parents think it is a good idea to help their children to have a better understanding about daily life.
1. The writer develops the fact in Paragraph 1 by ________.| A．listing numbers | B．asking questions | C．telling stories |
| A．learn to raise one or two kinds of plants |
| B．learn to cook two or three common dishes |
| C．experience one or two kinds of new technologies |
A． | B． | C． |
| A．The Abilities of Students |
| B．The Labor Classes for Students |
| C．The Different Housework for Students |
Can You Cook?
Tom can, and his mum’s very happy with him. Tom is like any other teenager. He goes to school, does his homework, meets his friends and enjoys doing sports. But between 5:30 and 6:30 from Monday to Friday, Tom does something different. He cooks dinner for all the family: his mum, dad, younger brother Joe and older sister Emma.
Tom’s mum says, “I think it’s important for teenagers to learn how to cook. Maths and English are important, of course, but they need other skills too to help them to survive. First I taught Tom how to cook easy meals like pizza or egg and chips. Then he started using recipes (食谱) in my cooking books. Yesterday he made vegetable soup. It was very good!”
Tom says, “I love cooking and I think I’m really good at it. None of my friends cook. I don’t know why. It isn’t difficult and it’s great fun!”
In the past, Tom didn’t help out at home, but today his mum is very pleased with him, he also finds his own purpose of life.
1. Tom does one thing that teenagers don’t normally do.2. Tom learned all the meals by himself.
3. Tom learned some recipes from his grandmother.
4. Tom says he is a good cook.
5. Tom’s mom thinks learning to cook is good for teenagers.
Clothing is an important part of any culture. Chinese culture is more than 5,000 years old, so the traditional Chinese clothing also has a long history.
Jimmy is a 14-year-old boy from America. He hates doing chores, but he has to do a lot every week. He needs to clean his bedroom every day. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he has to take out the rubbish. On weekends he has to help his father to wash the car. Sometimes he has to look after his little sister and brother. Mario is Jimmy’s foreign friend. He comes from Singapore. He doesn’t need to do any housework at home. Only girls help to do chores in Mario’s family. Mario’s sisters wash the clothes and clean the rooms. Mario’s mother cooks meals every day, and his sisters help their mother sometimes.
When Jimmy talks with Mario about chores, he feels very unlucky and sad.
Doing chores is too boring, so Jimmy hopes to make a robot to help him do chores in the future. Then how is he going to do that? He is very good at science, and he decides to work harder to make his dream come true.
1. Jimmy wants to make a robot to help him do chores in the future.2. Jimmy has two little sisters.
3. Jimmy and Mario are both from the United States.
4. In Mario’s family, only girls help to do chores.
5. Jimmy has to take out the rubbish on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
The small turtle (龟) Penny is 6 and she needs to go to school. Penny wants to get new friends, so she’s happy to go there.
On the first school day, Penny gets up at 6:30 in the morning. Fish (鱼) and an apple are always Penny’s morning food. At 6:50, she goes out with her schoolbag. It takes her half an hour to get to the bus stop. But the first bus always leaves at 7:10. The next bus comes at 7:40. Then Penny gets on it. When Penny gets to school, the teacher finishes the first class.
“You are late. What’s your name?” Mr. Brown asks.
“My name is Penny. I’m sorry. I walk too slowly (缓慢地),” Penny says.
The next day Penny gets up at 6:10. She meets Rick on a bridge.
“Good morning, Penny! Get on my bike!” Rick says.
“Thank you, Rick!” Then Penny and Rick are the first to get to school.
On the third day, Penny gets up at 6:00. This time she sees Mia. Mia takes Penny to school by car.
In the next days, Penny is never late for school. “I’m slow, but I get up early. My new friends always help me. They are so nice,” Penny thinks.
1. Penny is happy to go to school because she can have lessons.2. Penny gets to the bus stop at 7:20 a. m. on the first day.
3. Mia goes to school by bus.
4. Penny’s new friends are good to her.
Children need to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework. BusyKid is an app (应用程序) that makes doing chores for children easier. Parents set (设定) the chores and the money. When kids finish the chores, they click “I did it!” Then on Friday, kids can get the money for doing the chores.
Burton is a student and he likes the app. “I can get money, then I can divide it up into three parts: save, share, and spend,” he said. “It teaches me how to make money and use it in the real world.”
Many students spend too much time watching TV or playing computer games after school. They may wonder “why do I have to do chores.” Nancy uses the app with her children. She said, “I get that question often. I just tell them that’s the way your parents raise you and we want to teach you responsibility (责任).” Margie Zitko couldn’t agree more. “Children should have chores at home,” she said. “We shouldn’t do everything for our kids. We have to help them learn about real life. Home is where kids learn.” Zitko suggested (建议) that children start doing chores at a young age. The earlier kids learn to be independent, the better it is for their future. She also said the best way to help kids do chores at first is to work with them.
1. BusyKid helps children with chores.2. The underlined word “divide”in Paragraph 2 means “分配” in Chinese.
3. Sometimes many students are not sure why they have chores to do.
4. Nancy asks her children to do chores to finish the chores quickly.
5. Parents should let children do chores alone.
6 . Mr. Smith works in a bank (银行) and Mrs. Smith works in a store. Their son, John, is a student of 14.
In the morning, Mrs. Smith always gets up at six. She takes a shower and makes breakfast for the family. Mr. Smith and John get up at six thirty. They run for half an hour and take a shower. They have breakfast at a quarter past seven. Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith go to work and John goes to school at a quarter to eight. They don’ t have lunch at home in the afternoon. John gets home at 4: 40 after school. He does his homework. Then his parents get home from work at about 5:30. They eat dinner at 6:30.
In the evening, all the family watch TV together. What a happy family!
根据短文内容，判断正误(T/F)。1. Mr. Smith works but Mrs. Smith doesn’t.
2. Mrs. Smith makes breakfast for the family.
3. John goes to school at 8: 15.
4. The Smiths don’t have lunch at home.
5. John does his homework in the evening.
7 . Mrs. Smith has two daughters. Let’s have a look at what chores they do at home.
Tina started doing chores when she was about eight years old. At that time, she did the dishes with her mother and she had to sweep the floor. She is ten years old now. She is now doing the dishes herself and has to do the laundry (洗衣服), too.
Janet is four and she started doing chores this summer. She cleans off the table after dinner, puts her own clothes away, and sometimes she likes to help her sister sweep. She likes to help mop (擦地), but she fell down too many times. Her work is usually not perfect (完美的).
Last week Tina got her pocket money (零花钱). But she lost it two days later, because she forgot to do her chores in the following two days. She will get it back if she can keep doing her chores every day until the end of this month.
根据短文内容，判断下列各句正 (T)、误 (F)。1. Tina and Janet started doing chores at the same age.
2. Tina didn’t have to do the laundry when she was eight.
3. Janet swept the floor many times perfectly.
4. Janet usually does chores well.
5. Tina can get back her pocket money again if she is helpful at home.
8 . Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.
A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.
I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.
My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem with me.
根据短文内容，判断下列各句正 (T)、误 (F)。1. Everyone in the writer’s family used to like doing the chores very much.
2. The writer’s family began to do the game one year ago.
3. According to the passage, the chores written in the squares are difficult and boring.
4. The writer made this game to make her children do chores happily.
5. The writer wrote this passage to the parents.
9 . Now, primary students learn cooking at school. It has been discussed by teachers and parents. Some think that it is a useful skill for students, while others think it’s a waste of time, some even think it’s just a show. But do they really understand cooking?
It’s been said that good cooking is an art form. The truth is that it’s much more than that. Then talking about different foods from all around the world, or cultures and histories of dishes, students are connected to the world and learning history and culture in a new field. Then learning cooking, students measure (称量) materials from time to time, or find oil and water don’t usually mix. Students are also learning maths and science in practice.
The importance of failures in making food is as much as successes. Li Mei, 11, was crazy about the yummy cakes made by her father and wanted to make one on her own. But when taking her cake out, she was frustrated (沮丧的) to find that the cake was hard and black at the bottom. Her father told her when he was 13, he tried to make cakes, but wasted boxes of eggs. Then together with Father, Li Mei found out what had gone wrong and succeeded in making one. Li Mei learned in the failure of cooking, and could be braver to face failures.
Apart from the practical skills, cooking builds character. It encourages kids to work with others. It also encourages them to be open to foods they might not have tried. Though being good to our health, carrots were hated by 12-year-old Xiao Lei. But he started to love them after he made a salad with them. By cooking, students put down their phones and work together with family members in the kitchen. By cooking, students form the habit of doing labor work. As a part of labor education, cooking is a way to teach kids vital 21st century skills, such as creativity, team work and so on. If these skills aren’t taught to today’s students, they might hardly survive in the future.
1. What’s the relationship between cooking and other subjects according to the passage?A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．To show us carrots are good for our health. | B．To encourage kids to work with others. |
| C．To educate kids to be open to different foods. | D．To teach us how to make a salad with carrots. |
| A．Necessary. | B．Difficult. | C．Creative. | D．Simple. |
10 . Many years ago, the Aron family lived in the mountains. Grandpa Aron traveled into the village to sell his goods.
While he was there, he looked for a special gift for his family. After a long time, he found a lovely mirror. No one in his family had ever seen a mirror. Grandpa Aron bought the mirror and hurried home to his family.
It was late when Grandpa arrived home. He hung the mirror on the wall and then fell fast asleep. Early in the morning, little Paul Aron awoke. As he walked into the room, he saw a young boy looking back at him. “Papa, Papa, someone has broken into our house,” Paul cried.
Papa hurried down. He looked at the mirror and saw a strong man looking back at him. He glared (怒目而视) at the man. The man glared back. He hit the table with his hand and watched as the man hit the table with his hand.
Mama Aron came into the room. She stopped when she saw a young woman looking at her. Mama Aron smiled and waved (挥手) at the woman. The woman smiled and waved back at Mama.
Papa watched her with curiosity and then stepped up to the mirror with a smile. The strong man appeared once again in the mirror, but this time he wore a smile upon his face. From that day forward, the Aron family smiled as they walked through the room. They were always greeted (迎接) by a smile in return.
1. Why did Grandpa Aron go to the village?| A．To sell his goods. | B．To look for mirrors. |
| C．To give gifts to his friends. | D．To learn something special. |
| A．He hung the mirror on the wall. | B．He didn’t fall asleep until very late. |
| C．He told his family about the village. | D．He found someone break into his house. |
| A．Pleasure. | B．Wonder. | C．Worry. | D．Anger. |
| A．They took the mirror off the wall. |
| B．They made friends with one another. |
| C．They took turns to walk through the room. |
| D．They smiled whenever they looked in the mirror. |
| A．Smile is the most beautiful language. |
| B．Smile is the sunshine of family members. |
| C．Smile in the face, the love between the heart. |
| D．Smile and the world will smile along with you. |
