A：Nick!
B：I'm watching Animal World． It's my favorite TV program．
A：I need your help．
B：OK，Mom．
A：I have to buy some milk for your little sister．
B：No problem!
A：I'll be back in half an hour．
B：I see．
A：Yes，but don't make her cry(哭)．
B：OK．
A．What can I do for you? B．What are you doing? C．Could I play games with her? D．Could you please not watch TV now? E．Why do you look so tired? F．Could you please look after her for a few minutes? G．Could I do the dishes? |
I live in a happy family. My parents love me and they never let me do any chores. My dad is a good 1, so he does all the cooking in our family. My mom does all the other chores 2 sweeping the floor and washing clothes.
Last weekend, my parents were out, so I had to look after 3. In the afternoon, I was 4, so I decided to cook a meal. I 5 cooked before, but how hard would it be? My father is a good cook, and then I must 6 him in some ways. Finally, I decided to cook chicken. I took 7 the chicken from the fridge. When the oil became very hot, I 8 the chicken into the pot. Quickly the pot was on fire. I didn't know how it 9 before I threw the flaming pot into the water. Then I noticed the white table next to the stove and the ceiling (天花板) became black. I spent the next hour trying to clean up the 10.
Cooking isn't as easy as I ever thought, and there's always something I need to learn.
What do mothers think of housework? Let's read the following ideas.
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Laura |
We don't like housework, but at the same time, we hope to have a clean and comfortable home. My neighbor Teresa told me that I didn't have to do everything right away. We can do small things with great love. Start with the easy ones, rest, and then go on with the others. It becomes less tiring but much more interesting when you divide(分成)things into smaller parts. |
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Mona |
What should you call those who use towels(毛巾)but never wash them, eat meals but never do the dishes, sit in rooms but never clean them？If your answer is "A house guest." you're wrong. Because I just describe my kids. |
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Mary |
Kids seem to learn to use the computer and turn on the TV quickly. However, they have difficulty in using the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器). It's really surprising. |
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John and Ann are from Dublin, Ireland.They've been friends since they were children.They lived in the same neighborhood when they were young and they went to the same university.
Today John is a 34yearold engineer.He works in the heart of Dublin.He is very busy and doesn't have much free time.He found a maid (女佣) to clean his house on Saturdays, but during the week he has to make the bed and tidy up his room.He must also wash the dishes.Sometimes he cooks a meal，but most of the time he stops at a restaurant near his home and buys a meal for dinner.He often arrives home very late.Luckily, his maid is quite professional and takes good care of the house.In just 6 hours, the house begins to shine, with a fresh look and clean air to breathe.
Ann is 35 years old.She lives in a small village in Dublin.She works as a doctor at the village's health center.She starts working at 9 a．m.and finishes at 4 p．m.There is a halfhour lunch break at 12：30 p．m. After work, Ann has to pick up her two daughters from school.After they arrive home, the children do their homework while Ann prepares dinner.Her husband(丈夫) usually does part of the chores when he gets home.First he prepares the children's bath and then he washes clothes.Before dinner, he hangs up the clothes and then the children help him to lay the table(摆好餐具) and… it's dinner time! After dinner, Ann's husband usually does the dishes while she tidies up the kitchen.When there is too much rubbish, she takes it out.
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Most children don't enjoy doing chores. 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.
“Mom, have you worked out next week's chores? 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 mom 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 weekday 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 chores, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the parents did the chores at weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.
Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually relieve(减轻) stress？ In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.
"Doing some housework such as folding the clothes or sweeping the floor is a good way to relieve our stress without taking any medicine, "says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist(心理学家) in New York. "While washing something, "she says, "you can imagine you're washing away some trouble in your life."
Here are some other people's ideas about it.
"Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life, "says Linda in France. ""
"A man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. I really don't know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man, "says Gary, a single(单身的) father in America.
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A. However，he's just told to go back home and do some housework. B. Do you know housework is helpful in relieving stress? C. Get me out of doing the housework and then I'll really be relaxed. D. Do people all agree with her ideas? E. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day. |
When Norman left high school, he went to a college to learn cooking for two years. He enjoyed cooking and was good at creating (创造) his own dishes. Then he got a job in the kitchen of a big hotel as an apprentice (学徒) for four years.
①Norman soon found that cooking in a hotel was nothing like cooking for his family at home. He needed to work in a hot kitchen for a long time every day. A lot of people couldn't stand it, but Norman enjoyed it. He always made new and unusual cakes on Friday. More and more people visited the hotel on Friday just ②________ his cakes. The hotel owner soon found out why.
When Norman decided to leave the hotel, ③the hotel owner offered(提供) him more money and the position (职位) of the head cook. Norman took the position and saved most of the money he made. Finally, he bought his own hotel last year. Then he found he needed a lot more skills than just cooking skills. So he went to an evening school to learn business every Tuesday and Friday.
Norman enjoys having his own hotel. But he also enjoys working in the kitchen and ④thinking up new creations when the hotel is not too busy.
The hotel owner him more money and the position of the head cook.
To get more , Norman went to an evening school to learn every Tuesday and Friday.
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Some children dream of becoming adults (成年人)．So they won't have to do homework or take exams. That is to say，they won't have from school any more. But are things really like 6 they think?
Wang Jun's mother is a cleaner. Her job is to clean the park. Let's see what she does every day. In order to a clean environment for everyone，she has to get up at 5 a．m. to the streets and collect rubbish in the park.she finishes her work，she goes home to make breakfast. Then she does some at home. After that，she goes to the park to work again，because someone is always rubbish everywhere. She doesn't come back home 3：00 pm.
It's not easy for Wang Jun's mother money. His mother never wastes money.
Being an adult is not as as you think. So enjoy your school life.
