Imagine this: your parents go away on business, but you have to stay at home alone. Would life be as easy as when your parents are around? Would it be a perfect holiday for you?

“I can fill an empty stomach with tomato and egg soup, but that's all. I think many of my classmates are the same. We wouldn't know what to do, or how to look after ourselves," said Zheng Chenyu. "And I'd forget something important. I'd probably watch television and burn the soup. "

“As soon as I leave home, I'll learn to cook. But now parents do almost everything for us. We’re very lazy, "she said.

Most teenagers have only time for their homework. They don't learn any life skills until they go to college.

However, Sima Yige doesn't think so.

“I think I'd be all right. I wouldn't just eat sandwiches or fruit. I know how to cook, some sim­ple dishes because my mum showed me," the 13 - year - old boy said. In his opinion, many teen­agers depend too much on their parents, and there is much more to learn than cooking, like "tidying up your room or even dressing yourself properly."

For most teenagers it wouldn't be a holiday at all.

1.Why would Zheng Chenyu probably burn the soup?

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2.When will Zheng Chenyu learn to cook?

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3.Translate the underlined sentence "They don't learn any life skills until they go to college. " in this passage.

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4.The underlined phrase "depend too much" on in the passage means __________ in Chinese.

5.Would life be as easy for teenagers living alone as when their parents are around?

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单词填空（6分）
【小题1】It is my _________ / 'ple??/ to help you.
【小题2】The population of our country is ______________/?n'kri:s??/ very fast.
【小题3】Mr Black has ____________ /træns'le?t?d/ many Chinese books into English.
【小题4】The ___________['t??:t??z] in the USA are very famous.
【小题5】I want to have my watch ___________ / r?'pe?d/ because it doesn’t work .
【小题6】The young people often hand out _______________ in the street.
[?d'v?:t?sm?nts]

---Pardon? I _____ quite catch you.

--- I said I ______ the song before.

A．didn’t, hadn’t heard                   B．don’t, didn’t hear

C．didn’t, didn’t hear                    D．won’t, hadn’t heard

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Mr. White was holding a party at home to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. To make him happy, one of his women friends __1__ to sing a song for him. Now she was singing. One guest turned to a __2__ by his side and criticized the singer.

“What a __3__ voice!" he said. "Do you know __4__ she is?"

“Yes," was the answer, " She is my wife. "

“Oh, I beg your pardon,” the man said. "Of course her voice isn't bad, __5__ the song is very bad. I wondered who wrote that awful song?”

“I did," was the answer.

1.A. dreamed   B. decided    C. forgot    D. remembered

2.A. woman     B. girl       C. man       D. boy

3.A. terrible  B. beautiful  C. exciting  D. sweet

4.A. what      B. who        C. where     D. which

5.A. and       B. or         C. so        D. but

 —Has Li Hong gone to the library?

—Pardon?

—I asked           the library.

A. if Li Hong had gone to B. if had Li Hong gone to         C. Li Hong had gone to