Question

Most children don’t enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than cleaning the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert’s mother, Mrs Black, has good and proper methods to get their children to do housework.

Here is an example.

“Mum, have you worked out next week’s housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards I can’t wait. It’s fun!”

When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like these, “sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom” and many others, Jim and Robert chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the week day task board. Jim likes to clean the bathroom, so he picked up the card “clean the bathroom”. Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up his favorite card. Jim again picked up “wash vegetables” and Robert chose “feed the fish”. Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards

To help the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.

1.From the passage we know that most children like       .

A. doing housework  B. playing computer games

C. playing cards   D. doing housework

2.Jim and Robert chose        card for the weekdays from Monday to Friday.

A. two      B. four      C. eight     D. ten

3.Jim likes to           .

A. clean the bathroom  B. make the bed

C. feel the fish      D. sweep the floor

4.The underlined phrase “came up with” probably means “         ”.

A. looked at     B. gave up

C. thought of    D. believed in

5.Who did the housework on the weekends?

A. Jim          B. Robert

C. The parents  D. The whole family

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.A

4.C

5.C

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了大多数孩子在周末不喜欢做家务，而是玩电脑游戏，但是在澳大利亚布兰克夫人有办法让她的孩子做家务，短文给出了例子。

1.They like playing computer games rather than cleaning the rooms. 可知，他们喜欢玩电脑游戏而不是打扫房间，故选B。

2.sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom” and many others, Jim and Robert chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. 可知，共10张卡片，故选D。

3.Jim likes to clean the bathroom可知，吉姆喜欢打扫浴室，故选A。

4.细节理解题。根据their mother thought hard可知，这里指想起，故选C。

5.细节理解题。根据the parents did the housework on the weekends 可知，父母在周末做家务，故选C。

考点：日常生活类短文阅读。