25、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, made 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 bathrooms, 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.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1．Where is Mrs. Black living now?

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2．What had Mrs. Black put on their table when Robert shouted out?

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3．How many cards did Jim and Robert choose for each day from Monday to Friday?

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4．Who did the housework on the weekends?

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5．Did Jim and Robert do the housework happily on weekdays?

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23、一个人的成长离不开亲人的陪伴，老师的培养，朋友的支持。他们都给了我们许多的关怀与帮助。让我们怀着一颗感恩的心，以“My _________”为题，讲述一位令你难忘的人。（10分）

要求：1．请用一般现在时间简要描述人物的外貌和性格特点；用一般过去时简要描述对你的关怀与帮助。

2．语句通顺，合乎逻辑，词数60~80。

3．文中不得使用真实的姓名与学校名称。

22、从方框中选择正确选项，完成短文，并把字母序号写在短文后面的空格内。（方框中有两个选项是多余的）

A long time ago there lived a poor farmer. He got a beautiful horse. His friends said, “What a luck   1  you are！” The farmer answered, “You never know what will happen.”

One day, the horse ran  2 . The farmer’s friends came and said, “How unlucky you are！” The farmer didn’t get sad. He  3  said, “You never know what will happen.”

One week later, the horse  4  . And it brought  5  there horse. His friends said, “Oh, you are so lucky. Now you have four horses to help you.” The farmer looked at them and once again said. “You never know what will happen.”

The next morning while the farmer’s son was working in the field,  6  of the horses ran into him and the boy fell to the ground. His legs were broken. Many people came to the farmer and expressed their sadness（悲伤地） for his son. But again the farmer said. “You never know what will happen.”

A month  7  the son’s accident, soldiers rode into the village. They shouted, “We are taking every  8   young man to fight.” The soldiers took every young man  9  the farmer’s son. Every young man fought in the war and died. But the farmer’s son lived a long and happy 10  . As his father said, you never know what will happen.

20、根据短文内容，从A到F中选择相应的中心词。（方框中有一个选项是多余的）

A Day in Your Future Life

People used to know more or less how their children would live. Now things are always changing and we don’t even know what our own lives will be like in a few years. Let’s see what scientists tell us about the future.

1．You go to the kitchen when you get home. The foods are prepared and sent to you. You ordered them by computer an hour ago. You said for them through bank cards before they arrived. Nobody uses cash（现金） any more.

2．What’s for lunch? In the old days, you used to go to a fast food restaurant to get a hamburger and some coke. Now you use your special machine to find out which foods your body needs. Your food-machine makes you what you need.

3．After lunch, you go down the hall to your home office. Here you have everything you need to do your work, You never have to go out to work anymore.

4．Your information screen says that you’re received a message from a friend in America. Your computer can turn English into Chinese. Your friend’s face appears on the screen, and the Chinese words appear at the bottom.

5．You finish working and go back to your living room. You turn on the TV and look through the list of new movies. It’s a like having a video store in your home. How about a movie tonight?

19、All children in the United States have to receive an education, but it doesn’t mean they must get an education in a school. Now lost of parents wouldn’t like to send their children to school. Children who are taught at home are called “homeschoolers”, It is said that there are about 1.5 to 1.9 million homeschoolers in the United States, about 4% of school-age children.

Some parents would like to teach their children at home because they do not believe that schools can teach the correct values（价值观）. Others believe they can provide a better education for their children at home.

Now there are many websites about home education. Many parents teach their children at home and use the Internet to exchange（交流） ideas. It is interesting that homeschoolers often do better in reading and math than those at school.

It seems that getting home education is often more interesting than going to a traditional school. But in fact, most parents don’t have time or wouldn’t like to teach their children at home. So most children still get their education at school.

根据短文内容，判断下列各句正（T）、误（F）。

1．About 1.5 to 1.9 million American children learn at home

2．Some parents would like to teach their own children at home because they don’t believe schools can teach the correct values.

3．Many parents teach their children at home and use the Internet to exchange ideas.

4．Homeshoolers can learn English and math better than those at school.

5．In fact , most parents still receive their education at school.