1. What does the man ask the woman to do?
| A．Bring him a snack. | B．Walk the dog. | C．Stay quiet. |
| A．The dog is sleeping on his legs. |
| B．He has injured himself. |
| C．He is very tired. |
| A．5km. | B．10km. | C．15km. |
Mom was busy in the kitchen when my brother Marco and I got home from school on Friday. “Did you remember your grandmother’s coming today?” She asked. “Sure, Mom,” we laughed. “Didn’t you notice we cleaned our rooms?” Mom smiled and continued, “Thanks. I know I shouldn’t be nervous, but my mother hasn’t been here for almost six years! As I was growing up, her house always looked perfect. So I want everything to be well.”
“Perfect,” I said with a smile. “What else can we do to help before she gets here?”
Mom looked around,“You two could set the table. Use the good bowls. And be very careful with the glasses Grandma gave to us before you were born!”
As Mom prepared a big meal, Marco and I set the table. I taught Marco how to line up the forks on the left side of each p late and the knives and spoons on the right. In the center of the table, we placed a set of tall white candles. Then we stepped back and looked at our work. It seemed something was missing. “What’s missing?” I asked Marco.
“Napkins?” He asked. “And I don’t think Mom would want us to use paper ones!”
We both laughed. Marco opened a drawer and took out the nice cloth napkins Mom saved for special occasions （场合）. The soft white squares were folded in the middle, and we placed one on each plate. “Do you think that looks good enough?” I asked.
“No,” Marco answered. “Let’s make them look better. Remember the restaurant we went to last year? Their napkins were folded into different shapes! That was great!”
I nodded and unfolded the cloth napkin in front of me. “Look,” I said, pointing to the napkin, “These lines make special shapes. That gives me a great idea! Let’s do origami （折纸）. That’ll make the napkins unique!”
Marco looked confused, so I explained,“Origami’s a kind of folding art. People usually use paper, but you can use cloth. You make boats, birds or flowers just by folding. Nothing else is needed!”
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Mom heard us and came to help.
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We placed a different origami napkin on each plate.
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1. How will the speakers inform the customers?
| A．By phone. | B．By mail. | C．By email. |
| A．His customer. | B．His workmate. | C．His wife. |
| A．Give a reply to the email. |
| B．Offer their phone numbers. |
| C．Get familiar with other attendants. |
4 . Here are a few ways to motivate (激发) children to do chores.
Decide what kinds of chores children do. For younger children, give them easy work, like putting away their toys.
Tell children about the importance of doing chores.
Give children some money to do more chores.
| A．Set good examples in the family. |
| B．Make a list of chores for children. |
| C．Make children do chores unhappily. |
| D．Ask children to do all kinds of chores. |
| E．Giving money for more chores can also work. |
| F．As the children get older, make them do more difficult chores. |
| G．Discuss the importance of doing chores and how they help the whole family. |
Do you have family rules? Do you think they are good or terrible? Frank is a middle school student. He is always happy with his family rules. Do you want to know what the rules are?
Take exercise every day. On weekdays, Frank always plays tennis with his classmates for half an hour after school. And his parents run in the morning. On weekends, Frank’s family often play sports together.
Let evening time only be family time. They can’t watch TV or play games after dinner. The family usually sit on the sofa and have a talk. Frank likes to talk about his school and friends. Sometimes they take a walk to the park.
Always say “I love you” and “Thank you”. Frank says “I love you” to his parents every morning before he goes to school and every night before he goes to bed. And his parents say it to him, too. When they get help from other family members, they must say “Thank you”.
Frank likes every rule in his family because he thinks his family rules help him to keep healthy. Many students don’t like doing sports but Frank is different. He is good at sports and be looks healthy. And these rules also let his family live a happy life. To follow the rules, they must show their love and thanks to each other every day.
1. Do Frank’s parents say “I love you” and “Thank you” to him?2. How many rules in Frank’s family are mentioned in the passage?
3. Why does Frank like his family rules?
4. Do you like the rule “Take exercise every day”? Why or why not?
6 . Household chores like cooking, cleaning, washing the dishes, and making the bed are never done; they just get repeated like a broken record. Boring!
Chores are linked to a lower dementia (痴呆) risk. To discover what activities might be linked to a lower rate of dementia, researchers analyzed massive amounts of healthcare data from the UK Biobank. They found that those most engaged in household chores had a 21 percent lower risk of dementia compared to those least engaged in chores.
Finishing your chores can increase motivation. BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, states that the most important skill is recognizing and celebrating successes. Completing even a small task, like making your bed, can give you a sense of satisfaction.
Chores are good for children’s mental health. Children develop a sense of ownership when they have jobs to do around the house and it makes them feel like they are an important member of the household.
| A．Chores are an opportunity for “me time” |
| B．Chores can lead to creative problem-solving |
| C．Thus, you feel motivated to deal with tasks one after another |
| D．In this way, they can be taught to be independent and confident |
| E．Like many people, you may regard chores as something annoying |
| F．Doing chores with children also improves the parent-child relationship |
| G．This result indicated simple changes could make a difference to health |
It was a painful time for me. At 42, I was slowly coming to terms with the idea that I might never be able to have a child due to my health condition. Up until that point, I never really gave much thought to being a mother and suddenly I could think of little else. My husband and I had been together for ten years before we decided to get married because neither of us was in a hurry to do so.
Motherhood just wasn’t part of the plan. As my 40th birthday approached, I began, for the first time, to notice babies and their happy, smiling mothers wherever I went. The voice inside me cried out, “It’s too late! You missed your chance to be a mother! You wanted an all-consuming career, and now you’ve got one.”
One day I headed to a café. An elegantly dressed, slightly older woman was seated a few stools (凳子) away at the half-empty counter.
“Would you like to see a picture of my daughter?” she asked me.
“Sure,” I said. She handed me a photo of a smiling Chinese girl. The child was about seven years old and was wearing a Snow White costume.
“That’s Melanie. She’s in the first grade,” she said, introducing herself as Jill. I could hear the motherly pride in her voice.
“She’s pretty,” I said.
“I love her costume.”
“What made you decide to adopt her?” I asked.
“I didn’t want work to be my whole life,” she said.
I’m not sure if she saw the tears welling up in my eyes as I replied, “I don’t either, but I’m afraid it’s too late.”
“I was 51 when I adopted Melanie,” she said with more than a hint of reassurance in her voice. “And it’s the most rewarding, exciting thing I’ve ever done.”
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A few days later, I told my husband that I wanted to look into adopting a girl from China.
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We recently reconnected on Facebook with Jill.
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A Chair for My Mother
My mother works as a waitress in the Blue Tile Diner. After school sometimes I go to meet her there. Then her boss Josephine gives me a job too. When I finish, Josephine says, “Good work, honey,” and pays me. And every time, I put half of my money into the jar (罐子).
It takes a long time to fill a jar this big. Every day when my mother comes home from work, I take down the jar. My mama empties all her change from tips for me to count. Then we push all of the coins into the jar.
Sometimes my mama is laughing when she comes home from work. Sometimes she’s so tired she falls asleep while I count the money. Some days she has lots of tips. Some days she has only a few. Then she looks worried. But each evening every single shiny coin goes into the jar.
We sit in the kitchen to count the tips. Usually Grandma sits with us too. Often she has money in her old wallet for us. Whenever she gets a good bargain (划算的交易) on tomatoes or bananas or something she buys, she puts by the savings and they go into the jar.
When we can’t get a single other coin into the jar, we are going to take out all the money and go and buy a chair. Yes, a chair. A wonderful, beautiful, fat, soft armchair for Mama and Grandma. When Mama comes home, her feet hurt. “There’s no good place for me to rest my feet,” she says. When Grandma wants to sit back and cut up potatoes, she has to get as comfortable as she can on a hard kitchen chair.
So that is how come Mama brought home the biggest jar she could find and all the coins started to go into the jar.
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Now the jar is too heavy for me to lift down.
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Finally we find the chair we are all dreaming of.
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9 . Keeping your room picked up and tidy can be an ongoing battle. Today we’re going to focus on creating a plan for you and your child to use as you pick up or clean your room.
Grab some music. Who said that picking up has to be done in silence? It doesn’t!
Keep stuff where you will use it. Remember, when you pick up the room, the big focus should be on taking things that are out of their spot and putting them back into their correct spot.
Make it fun.
| A．Focus on one item. |
| B．One small section at a time. |
| C．But you will run across certain items. |
| D．Who said that picking up has to be boring? |
| E．Don’t start cleaning the whole room at once. |
| F．Pick your favorite upbeat tune and play it while you work. |
| G．Singing along with the music helps us focus on our task! |
1. Who had a fight with the woman?
| A．Boris. | B．Iris’ mother. | C．Boris’ mother. |
| A．They didn’t have similar jobs. |
| B．They didn’t care for each other. |
| C．They had different requirements for food. |
