The Sunday Mail magazine interviewed some parents about whether children should do chores at home. Different people have different opinions.
Ms Miller thinks that kids these days already have enough stress from school. They do not have time to study and do housework, too. Housework is a waste of their time. They should spend their time on schoolwork in order to get good grades and get into a good university. When kids get older, they will have to do housework. So there is no need for them to do it now. She thinks that doing chores is not so difficult.
However, Mr. Smith disagrees with her. He thinks it is important for children to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework. It’s not enough to just get good grades at school. Children these days depend on their parents too much. Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence and teaches them how to look after themselves. It also helps them to understand the idea of fairness. Everyone should do their part in keeping the house clean and tidy. The earlier kids learn to be independent, the better it is for their future.
任务一：请将文中划线句子翻译成汉语。
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任务二：请在文中找出与此句意思相同的句子。
If kids learn to be independent earlier, it is better for their future.
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任务三：请回答问题：What does Mr Smith think doing chores can help?
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任务四：What does the passage mainly talk about?
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综合填空 阅读短文，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个为多余。（共6分， 每空1分）
hard, while, learn, come out, father, be, quickly, afraid |
Once upon a time, there lived a family of mice in the kitchen. One Saturday morning Father Mouse and his son felt hungry and 1._______ for food. 2._______ they were looking for food, they saw a big cat. Baby Mouse was very3._______ and climbed onto his4.______ back. Father Mouse shouted at the cat. “Woof, woof!” The cat ran away5._______. “Wow, dad, you’re great!” said Baby Mouse. “Well, son, that’s why it’s important to 6. _______ a second language.” answered Father Mouse.
句型转换 按要求完成下列句子。每空限填一词。（共8分, 每空1分）
1.How about telling stories to cheer up the sick kids? (改为同义句)
________ ________ tell stories to cheer up the sick kids?
2.They have seen the film already. (改为否定句)
They ________ seen the film ________.
3.It’s about 2 kilometers from my home to school. (对划线部分提问)
________ ________ is it from your home to school?
4.My cousin bought a new bike last week. (改为同义句)
My cousin has ________ a new bike ________ last week.
填写单词 根据句子意思, 在空格中填写适当的单词, 使句子完整、正确。（共8分, 每小题1分）
1.There are four seasons in a year — spring, _________, autumn and winter.
2.Frank was _________ in 2000. He is fifteen this year.
3.It’s 12:00 at noon. It’s time for students to have _________ in the dining hall.
4.To keep _________, you’d better exercise every day and eat more fruit and vegetables.
5.In China, many children are taken _________ of by their grandparents in the village.
6.— I’ve _________ been to a water park before.
— Me neither.
7.What does John want to be when he _________ up?
8.A boy _________ himself in P. E. class. The teacher and two students took him to the hospital at once.
On May 23, Shenzhen introduced tough new rules in order to discourage the “Chinese style of crossing the road”. “Chinese people cross roads without thinking about traffic lights, so long as they are part of a crowd,” said a post on Sina Weibo.
A CCTV news program showed that in only an hour, more than 600 people jumped red lights when crossing a road in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
Many people say that they jaywalk(乱穿马路) because the red light lasts too long. Such an opinion is supported by a research team at Tongji University. The team did research on people’s waiting times at different road crossings for three years. They found that Chinese people would wait for 70 to 90 seconds(秒) before they lost their patience. “People are likely to ignore(忽视) the light when the waiting time is longer than they can bear,” said Ni Ying, a member of the research team.
However, a survey on Sina Weibo suggested that people jaywalk mainly because they ignore rules. “I always obey traffic rules. Time is important but safety should come first,” someone wrote on his Weibo.
Many countries give out punishments to jaywalkers. In Singapore, the maximum can be three months in prison. Some Chinese cities have started taking some actions, too. For example, the first three people in a jaywalking group will be fined 50 yuan in Shijiazhuang.
But calling on people to respect rules is more important. To completely solve the problem, everyone should realize the importance of obeying the traffic rules.
1.Which of the following is the “Chinese style road crossing”?
A. To cross a road slowly.
B. To follow the basic traffic rules.
C. To wait for the traffic light to turn green.
D. To cross roads without looking at traffic lights.
2.What does the phrase “the team” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. A CCTV news program.
B. A research group at Tongji University.
C. A post on Sina Weibo.
D. A daily newspaper.
3.How long will Chinese people wait for to cross the road before they lose patience?
A. About five minutes.
B. Less than one minute.
C. Less than one and a half minutes.
D. More than ten minutes.
4.Why do people jaywalk according to the survey on Sina Weibo?
A. Because people don’t pay much attention to rules.
B. Because there are too many people on the road.
C. Because the red light lasts too long.
D. Because people have less patience.
5. The writer suggests that we should __________ to solve the problem of jaywalking.
A. punish the jaywalkers
B. reduce (减少) the time of red lights
C. ignore the traffic rules
D. call on people to obey the traffic rules
Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.
He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would take a break and climb up on the fence(篱笆) along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. “If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house.” He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, “Some day I will go there and see this wonderful place.”
One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.
As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how wrong he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of painting. A small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows.
The girl said, “Sure, I know.” and invited him to sit on the porch(门廊). As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset(夕阳) turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.
1.During his break every morning, the small boy would __________.
A. fix the fence B. climb up on the fence
C. eat sandwiches D. walk around the farm
2.One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to __________.
A. go to the town B. play on the field
C. go to see the house D. make the golden windows
3. What did the boy find when he got there?
A. Nobody lived in the poor house.
B. The house was as old as he expected.
C. No golden windows were in the house.
D. The house was nearer than he thought.
4.The story tells us that people sometimes may have the thought __________.
A. Like father, like son
B. Love me, love my dog
C. Every dog has its day
D. The grass is greener somewhere else
5. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Golden Windows B. A Wonderful Place
C. Father and Son D. A Boy’s Promise
