2 . Some students are talking about doing chores in their families.

Jenny: My father is strict with us. He thinks everyone in the family should help out with the chores. My sister and I are our parents’ great helpers. My sister helps to do the dishes and sweep the floor. My job is to take out the rubbish and clean the living room.

Allan: In my family, my brother and I don’t do lots of chores. I only make my bed and my brother folds his clothes. In fact, my mom does most of the chores although she is busy. Many people say my brother and I are spoiled (惯坏的). But my mom thinks children should spend a lot of time studying instead of doing chores.

Grace: I have a sister and she is eight years older than me. She is independent and she used to do the chores in my family. But she went to another country to go to college last year. So I took over the job and started to do the chores.

1. What does Jenny’s sister do at home?

A．Take out the rubbish.	B．Make the bed.
C．Sweep the floor.	D．Clean the kitchen.

2. Who does most of the chores in Allan’s home?

A．Allan.

B．Allan’s brother.

C．Allan’s father.

D．Allan’s mother.

3. What does Allan’s mother think children should spend a lot of time on?

A．

B．

C．

D．

4. Why did Grace start to do the chores?

A．Because she was an independent girl at home.

B．Because her sister studied in another country.

C．Because she thought doing chores was interesting.

D．Because her parents asked her to do the chores strictly.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Jenny doesn’t often help her parents do chores.

B．Jenny has a brother but she doesn’t have a sister.

C．Grace’s sister didn’t do chores in the past.

D．Allan’s mother is always busy.

3 . 在现实生活中，有不少父母总怕做家务会浪费孩的时间，影响孩子的学习，因此宁可自己家务全包也不让孩子动手，哪怕是举手之劳。你同意这种做法吗？你认为中学生在家应该做一些家务吗？请写一篇短文谈谈你的看法。

注意：1、观点明确，语句连贯、通顺；
          2、词数80左右。
3、常用句型：
（1）The students of our class have different ideas about...
（2）Some parents think...
（3）These years, some students are interested in... I like...but I hate...
（4）Firstly,...Secondly,...Thirdly,...
（5）In my opinion...
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4 . 阅读下面对话，按要求完成各小题。

Sam hated doing chores. And he had many chores. For example, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he took out the trash. And on weekends he always washed his father’s car. 他还一周打扫一次他自己的房间。What a chore that was! Sometimes he even had to look after his little sister and brother.

Sam had a foreign friend at school. His name was Kumar. Doing chores in Kumar’s family was very different. In the house only the girl did chores. His sisters made all the beds and cleaned all the rooms too, even his bedroom. His mother always cooked the meals, and his sisters help her to go shopping, and prepare (准备) the food. They worked hard at home, doing all the chores with their mother.

So when Kumar talked to his friend Sam about chores, he felt very lucky. One day, Sam had an idea. He asked Kumar, “Could I borrow your sisters?” He wanted them to help him clean his room, but they said “no”. Instead, they asked Sam to teach their brother how to do chores, so Kumar could make his own bed.

Sam and Kumar were very good at science. They were going to be scientists after university. They wanted to make a robot to do the chores. Then everyone—mothers and fathers, sons and daughters—would be happy!

1-3回答问题。
1. How often did Sam take out the trash?
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2. Who made Kumar’s bed?
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3. What did Sam and Kumar want to make after university?
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4-5英汉互译。
4. 他还一周打扫一次他自己的房间。
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5. He wanted them to help him clean his room, but they said “no”.
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5 . I wanted to find out how the children in my class help at home so I did a class survey (调查). First, I chose four typical chores. Then I asked 5 boys and 7 girls the questions and got their answers. I showed the results in two different ways: first, in our pie chart (饼图) and then on a bar chart (柱状图) .

        Do you ever lay the table?                      How do children in Class 4A help at home?

1. How many children answered the survey questions?

A．5.

B．12.

C．7.

D．25.

2. How often do 50% of the students lay the table according to (根据) the pie chart?

A．Never.

B．Always.

C．Sometimes.

D．Usually.

3. What does the pie chart show?

A．It shows different colors of the chart.

B．It shows most children always lay the table.

C．It shows the answers to all the questions in the survey.

D．It shows the result about how often children lay the table.

4. We can learn from the bar chart that 8 children ___________.

A．sometimes lay the table	B．sometimes water the plants
C．never make the bed	D．sometimes feed the pet

5. According to the bar chart, how many students always make the bed?

A．6.

B．7.

C．3.

D．2.

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据语境或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Most of us probably don’t like doing housework. And most of us think that     1     (clean) the bathroom or cooking dinner for the family makes us tired. However, the fact is that someone has to     2     (do) it. Most of the time, our parents have to do the housework. Is it     3     (real) fair?

Doing housework is not as     4     (bad) as it sounds. If we all do our part, it     5     (seem) less annoying. Why should your mother have to wash your dirty clothes? You are able to take care       6     yourself. Doing some housework will show that you are becoming more and more i    7     . Some of us may think that we are too busy to do housework. But most parents work all day and are then     8     (expect) to keep a clean house! Dividing housework among the whole family will make everyone’s job much     9     (easy). Please remember: Learning to do housework can p    10     you with valuable skills for the future.

9 . 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思完整正确。(每个单词限用一次。每空限填一个单词。)

angry   clean   be   help   you   child   comfortable   week   wash   surprise

It was half past five in the evening when Sarah came home from work. She walked into the living room and looked after three children. They were sitting in the sofa     1     and watching TV. The room was dirty and untidy. There     2     empty glasses (空杯子) and dirty clothes on the floor. There were cakes on the sofa. Toys were everywhere.

Sarah got     3    . “How dirty and untidy this place is!” she said to her children. “I can’t work all day and then do housework all evening. You have to do the housework     4    !” And so, Sarah didn’t do the housework. She didn’t clean. She didn’t do the dishes. She didn’t wash the clothes. Every evening, she sat in the sofa and watched TV.

Several     5     later, every dish in the house was dirty. All the     6     clothes were dirty, too. Every trash can (垃圾桶) was full. The whole house was dirty and untidy.

Then one day, Sarah felt very     7     when she came home from work. The kitchen was clean. The children     8     the kitchen! The next day, the living room was clean, and the children were    9     their clothes. Sarah told the children, “OK, I’ll do the housework again. But you must     10     me.”

Now, Sarah and the three children do the housework together. Then they all sit in the sofa and watch TV.

10 . A month ago the Brown family, who lived in Lyndhurst, had a special experience.

It was evening, and after dinner Tina was in the kitchen.     1    , while her husband, Frank, was watching a comedy program on television. Upstairs (在楼上), their young daughter, Ruth, was asleep in her room.     2    . The weather had been very good all day with a lot of sunshine. However, at the end of the afternoon, it started to change.     3    .

Tina looked out of the kitchen window and saw big storm clouds in the sky. The Browns’ dog, Tilly, was in the back garden. Suddenly there was a loud crack of thunder (雷声) and Tilly quickly ran into the house. Shortly afterwards, Tina saw lightning (闪电) in the sky and then everything in the house went dark.     4    . Mark shouted from his room because he couldn’t use his computer. Then they heard baby Ruth crying. Frank went upstairs to look after the baby but when he climbed the stairs, there was a loud sound and the house seemed to shake.

    5    . A big tree from their garden fell through the window of Ruth’s room! Luckily it missed the baby by just half a meter.

A．Their son, Mark, was doing some homework on his computer

B．Frank was unhappy because he couldn’t watch TV

C．Tina was folding the clothes

D．Frank ran into Ruth’s room and he saw something shocking

E．She was making coffee

F．Soon, it began to rain very heavily

G．Suddenly the lights went out because of a big earthquake (地震)