Most kids hate doing housework. However, not all hope is lost. There are some th

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Most kids hate doing housework. However, not all hope is lost. There are some things that you can do to get your kids to help you clean your house. If you are struggling with the chores (家务)and need your kids to help you, take a look at some of the creative ways in this article.
If you are dealing with older kids, you may want to try the allowance deal. You can give your kids a list of chores that need to be done each week. If they complete these chores, you can give them some money. You can also break the list down and tell them they will get so much for each chore that is finished. Older kids , who like to do things on weekends or buy things like video games, will work hard to complete their chores and earn their money. This is also teaching them responsibility. This is teaching them that they must work for what they want.
If you are dealing with younger kids, you may want to go with the rewards chart(奖励图表）. This is where you design a chart and list their chores on the chart. For each chore they complete, you can put a red flower beside it. For the rewards, you canalso do a number of things ,such as going to the park, going out to eat, buying a DVD or something similar. The rewards would be up to you because you know what your kids like.
For real small kids, you can turn it into a game. When kids were much younger, you can teach them to dance around and sing as you cleaned. The kids loved it and would do a wonderful job at picking up their toys. So, consider turning cleaning into a game for the real small kids.
小题1:What does the underlined word “allowance” in Paraph 2 mean ?

A．Good words given by parents	B．Business that needs studying
C．Explanation of responsibility	D．Small change given by parents

小题2:Why can we put a red flower beside the chore on a chart?

A．To know what your kids like.

B．To know how many chores the kids have done.

C．To encourage younger kids to do more chores.

D．To go out to eat or do something similar they like.

小题3: What can we know from this article?

A．Kids should help parents do more chores.

B．Parents should teach kids how to do housework.

C．The more chores kids do, the more they love their parents.

D．Creative methods can be helpful for parents to get their kids to do housework.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:D

解析

试题解析：这篇文章讲述的是如何让孩子们更愿意做家务，文中给出了几种可行的方法，其中包括对大孩子，小孩子，甚至更小的孩子的不同方法。
小题1:词义猜测题。根据文中语句提示If they complete these chores, you can give them some money.（对稍微大点的孩子他们完成这些家务活时可以给他们一些钱）可知此词的意思是D。
小题2:根据第三自然段的描述，对于小点的孩子主要是采取鼓励，表扬的方式，所以此题答案是C。
小题3:主旨大意题。从全文描述可知通过有创造性的方法能帮助父母让孩子们做家务，故选D。

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“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move,” said David Belle, the founder of parkour(跑酷).
Close your eyes and imagine you are living in the next two centuries or more. You"ll be living in a world filled with smart robots, which will be helping you to take care of your children, or your elderly parents in your home. You"ll live much longer thanks to the medicine made by genetic (基因的) science. And mankind may be going farther in space than ever before-you will be living on the moon or Mars.
How should we view the changes that wait for us in the future? Should we be optimistic (乐观的)about the years ahead, or worried about what the future holds? Some scientists and experts are having a discussion about how technology, science and society will develop in the future.
"I"m looking forward to the day when more technology will come to my life," says John Searle, a professor at the University of California Berkeley Philosophy, "because I think further research in such areas as genetics, physics, chemistry and medicine will help us to overcome poverty, improve health, and make life longer."
Hugh Herr, at MIT"s Biomechatronics Group, considers very powerful weapons as concern over the future. Another is the growing role of technology in our lives."Machines’ taking over what humans do is not a good thing," Herr says.
That is a similar concern shared by Daniela Cerqui, a social and cultural scientist. "I am afraid that the long-term future we are building will have no space left for human beings," says Cerqui. "The main values of our society are related to information that must progress as quickly as possible, and computers are much better than humans in these tasks ."
小题1: The second paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A．how science will develop in the future

B．how people will live in a modern society

C．what life would be like in the future

D．what computers will bring to our society

小题2:From Paragraph 4 we can infer that ___________.

A．John Searl is optimistic about the future

B．we should wait to see the changes in the future

C．John Searl worries much about what the future holds

D．further science research will be helpful for making life longer

小题3: The underlined word "That" in the last paragraph refers to________.

A．The poverty problem in the future

B．Machines’ taking over what humans do

C．The technology of weapons

D．The health problem of humans

小题4:The best title for the passage can be “___________”.

A．The Future--Full of Hope or Concern

B．Great Changes Will Take Place in the Future

C．The Relationship Between Technology and Humans

D．The Role of Robots and Computers in the Future

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Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal. As a mother, the Chinese-American writer Amy Chua is just a tiger . Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (《虎妈战歌》), tells us how she gives her two children education. She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent. Her kids had to obey the following rules. To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to watch TV or play computer games. Then, they were not allowed to “ hang out ” with other kids after school. They had to be the top students in their class. And they had to practice the piano and the violin for hours every day. Of course, she believes this has brought a lot of problems for herself and her kids. But she doesn’t mind because her kids have become great. Chua says, like her, most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot if they’re pushed hard enough. She says American mothers are really cats. They care more about their children’s self-respect (自尊). They don’t want to be strict with their kids because this may hurt their feelings. With soft words and understanding, they encourage their children to choose for themselves. So is a tiger mom better than a cat mom? It may also depend on the child.
小题1:The writer of this passage wants to _________.

A．tell that Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal.

B．tell us Amy Chua how to give children education.

C．tell the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is about animals.

D．tell that most Asian mothers are cats

小题2:What does Amy Chua think of training a child’s talent?

A．She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent

B．She says that being soft is the best way to train a child’s talent

C．She says that teaching is the only way to train a child’s talent

D．She says that making the rules is the only way to train a child’s talent

小题3:To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to

A．watch TV.

B． play computer games

C．“ hang out ” with other kids after school.

D． Above of all

小题4:She doesn’t mind because her kids have become great. does she?

A．Yes, she does	B．No, she doesn’t
C．Yes, she doesn’t	D．No, she does.

小题5:From the passage, we can know which one is Not true

A．most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot.

B．American mothers don’t want to be strict with their kids because this may hurt their feelings

C．So is a tiger mom better than a cat mom? It may also depend on the child.

D．American mothers are like cats. They care less about their children’s self-respect (自尊).

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Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either. Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution （污染）. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and polluted our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world. Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog（烟雾）.
Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air. We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and not throw it on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution.
Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.
小题1: Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because _______.

A．there were not any modern machines	B．there was no modern medicine
C．both A and B	D．there were not many people

小题2: What is the biggest problem in today’s life?

A．Water pollution	B．Air pollution
C．Noise	D．Pollution

小题3:The most serious kind of pollution is ________.

A．noise pollution	B．air pollution
C．water pollution	D．A, B and C

小题4: Factories must clean their water ________.

A．before they are thrown away	B．when they are thrown away
C．after it is thrown away	D．before it is thrown away

小题5:From the passage we know that ________.

A．a few years ago, there was no smog at all

B．today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice

C．we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes’

D．people are making rules in order to fight pollution

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I’m Lisa. I’m a Chinese girl. I go to Canberra, Australia this month. 小题1: I stay there for about a month. I live with Mr. White, my dad’s old friend. His family members are very friendly to me. They take me to many places of interest in Canberra. 小题2: .
The schools in Canberra are a little different from those in China. There are about twenty students in each class. 小题3: Most students go to school by school bus. Classes usually begin at 8:00 in the morning and end at about 4:00 in the afternoon. Usually, students can sit anywhere they like in the classroom. 小题4: They often let the students talk about questions, or sometimes they play games with the students in class. 小题5: I think it is really happy to go to school in Canberra.
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Have you ever been ill? When you are ill, you must be unhappy because your body becomes hot, and there are pains all over your body. You don’t want to work. Instead, you want to stay in bed, feeling very sad.
What makes us ill? It is germs (细菌). Germs are everywhere. They are very small and you can’t find them with your eyes, but you can see them with a microscope(显微镜). They are very very small and there could be hundreds of them on a very small thing.
Germs are always found in dirty water. When we look at dirty water under the microscope, we shall see them in it. So your father and mother won’t let you drink dirty water.
Germs aren’t found only in water . They are found in air and dust. If you cut your finger and some of the dust ( 灰尘 ) from the floor goes into the cut, some of the germs would go into your finger. Your finger would become big and red , and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes germs would go into all of your body, and you would have pain everywhere.
小题1:Which of the following is true?

A．If things are very very small , they are germs.

B．If things can’t be seen, they must be germs .

C．Germs are only in dirty water.

D．Germs are everywhere around us.

小题2:What’s a microscope used for?

A．Making very very small things look much bigger.

B．Making very big things look much smaller.

C．Helping you read some newspapers.

D．Helping you if you can’t see things clearly.

小题3:Why don’t your parents let you drink dirty water.

A．You haven’ t looked at it carefully.

B．Water can’t be drunk in this way.

C．There are lots of germs in it.

D．Water will make you ill.

小题4:Which of the following is NOT true ?

A．Germs can be found both in water and in the air.

B．Germs can go into your finger if it is cut.

C．If your temperature ( 体温 ) is not OK, there must be germs in your body.

D．If your finger isn’t cut, there aren’t any germs on it.

小题5:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Germs can make us ill.

B．Germs are in dirty water.

C．Don’t drink dirty water.

D．Take care of your fingers.

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