1. How old is Waldramina Maclovia?
A.79 years old. | B.104 years old. | C.110 years old. |
A.Her sister. | B.Her cousin. | C.Her sister’s husband. |
A.5. | B.9. | C.11. |
A.They always respect each other. |
B.Their marriage was blessed by their relatives. |
C.They seldom face any difficulties. |
Last week, I was creating a picture book for my dad as his birthday gift. It was about our family’s grocery store (杂货店). There were lots of fruits in the store, so my pictures centered on apples, pears, grapes and any other fruit one could think of. I worked forever making each picture as perfect as possible. Every time I messed up, I started all over again, so the floor under the kitchen table was covered with half-finished drawings.
“Dad’s going to love this,” my mom said as she looked over my shoulder, “but it’s housework time now.” I was responsible for folding the clothes, and my little brother Ben, sweeping the floor. “And Amy, please remove the paper from the floor to the recycling bin in the yard when you finish your project,” my mom added.
I finished folding the clothes as fast as possible. Just as I was about to get back to the picture book, my friend Marry showed up.
“Hi, Amy! Want to go and play in the park?” she asked.
“I definitely would, but brrr…It’s freezing cold outside!”
“Exactly!” she said. “It’s the perfect weather for not getting overheated.”
That’s a cool thing about Marry. She has this way of looking on the bright side of pretty much anything.
So, we headed to the park. But as soon as we arrived there, the sky was filled with giant gray clouds and rain started pouring down. We had to go back, dripping wet.
Ben was taking out rubbish to the recycling bin when we stepped into the yard. And that’s when my heart pretty much stopped. Right there in the yard, in front of the recycling bin, was a box full of wet paper. And not just any piece of paper. That was my picture book.
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“Whoa! Wait! What?” I ran to rescue my birthday book drawings.
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At that time, Marry came up to me and gave me a comforting pat on the shoulder.
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Just remember that it is completely normal to struggle
4 . Like many parents working from home while their kids are learning remotely, we’ve been looking for creative ways to connect with our children — and nowhere has this been truer than in the kitchen.
Kitchen science, as Liz Heinecke, author of Kitchen Science Lab for Kids calls it doesn’t require any fancy equipment or ingredients (配料)—and, best of all in the era of remote education, we can combine science lessons with everyday meal preparations. By helping with cooking, kids can engage in lively, project-based lessons. Actually, even the easiest recipes include both simple and complex scientific concepts.
Kitchen science isn’t just about what we’re cooking: it’s also about understanding why It’s worth taking the time to figure out how ingredients and temperature interact and why substances behave the way they do. Everyone involved will learn something.
For example, we all know oil and water don’t mix easily, but we can change this by adding mustard (芥末) to the oil and water to make a salad dressing. This is an opportunity to teach kids about the science of emulsions (乳化). Adding lemon juice to a vegetable stops that vegetable from turning brown: cabbage changes color when you add vinegar to it. Both of those phenomena are the result of chemical reactions. In the classroom, it can be hard to see how scientific concepts will apply outside the lab. But when kids see these concepts play out in the real world, that sparks curiosity and learning.
“Every time you step into your kitchen to cook, you put science to work. In fact, physics and chemistry come into play whenever you steam, bake, freeze or boil. Thus, every time you step into the kitchen, it’s an opportunity for everyone to learn more about science,” Liz Heinecke said.
1. What are parents expected to do in the kitchen?A.Ask kids to cook a meal on their own. | B.Do science experiments in the kitchen. |
C.Pay attention to cooking ingredients. | D.Combine scientific concepts with recipes. |
A.Raw materials are important in the kitchen. |
B.Procedures to cook dinner must be followed. |
C.Cooking can inspire kids’ interest in studying science. |
D.Family education is more important than school education. |
A.Cooking can benefit both kids and parents. |
B.Parents need to master different cooking skills. |
C.Lab experiments can be repeated at home. |
D.Schools should offer cooking courses. |
A.To practice healthy eating habits. |
B.To learn food science out of the lab. |
C.To turn meal preparations into family learning. |
D.To teach kids some recipes for cooking in the kitchen. |
A New Addition to the Family
For the initial ten years of his life, Victor was the prince of the household. As he was an only child, his parents petted him and showered all their love and attention on him. Whatever toys his parents bought, they were always meant for him. Whatever food was in the refrigerator, there was no one to compete with him to polish it off first. Victor could leave his toys or books around the house with complete ease of mind, knowing that there was no one who would get their hands on his belongings and cause any damage.
However, all that was to change overnight when Victor’s parents brought back his new baby sister, Lina, from the hospital. With her rosy cheeks, wide open eyes and angelic smile, Lina caught the hearts of her parents, grandparents and relatives. Everyone focused their attention on the cute bunch of joy. Whenever she cried, her mother or father would rush to her bed. She simply cried because she wanted to be carried. There was little time left for Victor.
Now that Victor’s mother had his baby sister to take care of, she expected Victor himself to do most of the chores he can do. Victor was asked to clean his own room, iron his own school uniform and clean his own shoes. Before Lina’s arrival, he had never lifted a finger to help out with these tasks. The whole family also went out less because it was unhealthy to expose Lina to the bacteria(细菌) being in the outside world too often.
Victor felt neglected by his parents. He felt that they loved Lina more than him. As a result, he tried to attract his parents’ attention by becoming resistant. One evening, Victor’s parents were called up by his teacher because Victor had got into a fight at school. His teacher had noticed Victor’s behaviour and work attitude changing downwards in the past two months. Before that, he had been a model student.
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Upon hearing the teacher’s feedback, Victor’s parents got lost in thought.
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The twins, Jenna and Jeff, were good at most things. Their dad was good at most things, too. But there was one thing the twins and Dad were not good at—that was chores. It wasn’t that Dad and the twins didn’t want to do their chores. It was just that they always seemed to have reasons not to do them. And they had such good excuses.
“You’re right, my dear,” said Mum. “The grass does need cutting. But a spider has spun a wonderful web on the lawn mower and I haven’t the heart to put all her hard work to waste.”
“Mum,” said Jenna, “I know it’s my week to put up my cards. It’s just that I’m waiting for them to dry. They’ll be easier to scoop up that way.”
“Mum,” said Jeff, “may I skip setting the table tonight? There’s a TV show on the Ice Age, and I have to do a report on the Beast of Baluchistan.”
There were also the endless quarrels about who did what and who got the easy job. Mum sighed. If only Dad and the twins were as good at doing their chores as they were at arguing about them, life would be easier. Talking of chores, Mum thought instead of pushing them for chores, it would be a lot easier to do them herself. And that was what she did. She put away all cards and set and cleared the table. She chased the dust bunnies from under the furniture and cleaned up the twins’ messy room.
The twins did pick up and put away things occasionally. Dad did cut the grass once in a while. Not surprisingly, things began to slide. Everybody got a little unhappy, especially Mum, who spent much time doing chores. Something had to be done. But what?
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Mum decided to host a family meeting.
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Living in all that messy build-up wasn’t much fun.
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Mum and Her Bank Account
My family had the tradition to sit down by the kitchen table every Saturday night to count out the money Dad had brought home.
These are for the rent, and these for the groceries. “ Mum counted out and divided the big silver pieces.
I’ll need a notebook, “ That would be my sister Christine, my brother Nels or me.
After Mum put one or two coins to the side for the notebook, she said that was all we needed to buy for the week and we all relaxed a little. We didn’t have to go downtown and draw money out of Mum’s bank account, which could always give us such a warm and secure feeling for having enough to afford the life.
When Nels graduated from grammar school , he needed some money for high school We sat by the table and I offered my “ Little Bank” which was used for sudden emergencies such as the time when Christine broke her arm and had to see a doctor. I laid the box carefully in front of Mum. After counting out the money in the little bank and finding there was not enough, we all agreed not to go to the bank but to find some ways.
Nels volunteered to work in Dillon’s grocery after school and Dad said he would give up smoking. Now there was enough money. We felt relieved.
So many things came out of the little bank that year: Christine’s dress for the school play, Nel’s operation ... Whatever happened , we always knew we still had the bank to depend on. We never used her bank account.
That was twenty years ago.
Last year, I sold my first story. When the money came I thought of Mum’s bank account.
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So I hurried over to Mum’s home.
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Knowing that there was no bank account at all, I felt shocked.
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8 . For many parents, raising a teenager is like fighting a long war, but years go by without any clear winner. Like a border conflict between neighboring countries, the parent-teen war is about boundaries: Where is the line between what I control and what you do?
Both sides want peace, but neither feels it has any power to stop the conflict. In part, this is because neither is willing to admit any responsibility for starting it. From the parents’ point of view, the only cause of their fight is their adolescents’ complete unreasonableness. And of course, the teens see it in exactly the same way, except oppositely. Both feel trapped.
In this article, I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things. Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom, the preferred style of clothing, the child’s failure to eat a good breakfast before school, or his tendency to sleep until noon on the weekends. Second, blaming. The goal of a blaming battle is to make the other admit that his bad attitude is the reason why everything goes wrong. Third, needing to be right. It doesn’t matter what the topic is—politics, the laws of physics, or the proper way to break an egg—the point of these arguments is to prove that you are right and the other person is wrong, for both wish to be considered an authority—someone who actually knows something—and therefore to command respect. Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.
1. Why does the author compare the parent-teen war to a border conflict?A.Both are about where to draw the line. |
B.Both can continue for generations. |
C.Neither has any clear winner. |
D.Neither can be put to an end. |
A.The teens tend to have a full understanding of their parents. |
B.The teens agree with their parents on the cause of the conflict. |
C.The teens cause their parents of misleading them. |
D.The teens blame their parents for starting the conflict. |
A.give orders to the other |
B.know more than the other |
C.gain respect from the other |
D.get the other to behave properly |
A.Solutions for the parent-teen problems. |
B.Examples of the parent-teen war. |
C.Causes for the parent-teen conflicts. |
D.Future of the parent-teen relationship. |
1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A.Salesperson and customer. | B.Homeowner and cleaner. | C.Husband and wife. |
A.One with two bedrooms. | B.One without furniture. | C.One near market. |
A.$350. | B.$400. | C.$415. |
A.On Lake Street. | B.On Market Street. | C.On South Street. |
10 . Every New Year’s Eve, we had breakfast at Aunt Dot’s house. Aunt Dot lived in a home with shelves of
Although the food was delicious, my most vivid
It wasn’t until years later, when I was home during a holiday, that I finally asked Aunt Dot about the
“Well, my dear,” Aunt Dot said in a
In the spring of that year, after a short illness, Aunt Dot
Now, I continue Aunt Dot’s breakfast
A.toys | B.books | C.plates | D.products |
A.painted | B.preserved | C.decorated | D.designed |
A.memory | B.description | C.imagination | D.dream |
A.threw | B.arranged | C.ignored | D.noticed |
A.unusual | B.artificial | C.common | D.expensive |
A.advised | B.ordered | C.allowed | D.invited |
A.help with | B.play on | C.look into | D.talk about |
A.casually | B.anxiously | C.enthusiastically | D.secretly |
A.standard | B.thoughtful | C.funny | D.polite |
A.warn | B.convince | C.remind | D.promise |
A.connects | B.changes | C.improves | D.stops |
A.hesitated | B.nodded | C.sighed | D.refused |
A.moved on | B.gave up | C.fell over | D.passed away |
A.collection | B.review | C.club | D.shop |
A.disappointed | B.surprised | C.proud | D.relieved |
A.discover | B.admit | C.guess | D.hope |
A.introduction | B.aid | C.attitude | D.solution |
A.suggestion | B.service | C.trend | D.tradition |
A.significant | B.simple | C.vivid | D.delicious |
A.empty | B.old | C.recyclable | D.strong |