Now some women are spending a weekend at Mother’s Camp. There, husbands and children are not allowed. Why would a woman want to take a vacation without her family? Some women say they need time to be alone.
At Mother’s Camp a woman has room to herself. She can sleep, read or watch TV, and no one will bother her. No children will ask, ”Mom, what’s for dinner?” No husband will say, “Oh, dear, I can’t find any clean socks.” In fact almost 50% of women in the United States work outside the home. Many of them work full- time and then come home to a second job – taking care of their homes and families. These working women say one of their biggest problems is housework.
In the United States, working wives do about 75% of the housework. Many of their husbands say they want to help. But then they burn the rice or they can’t find the pans. They ask so many questions that their wives decide it is easier to do the job themselves.
Some women go to Mother’s Camp just to get a break from housework. For two days they don’t cook, they don’t clean, they don’t look after their children and husbands. What do they do? They enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, swimming or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the camp-fire. They relax away from home. They have a really wonderful vacation at Mother’s Camp.
【小题1】 From this passage we can see ________ in the United States.

从方框中选出适当的句子补全对话，有两项多余。

A: Mom, this is my new friend, Jim.

B: Welcome to our home, Jim. 1.

C: Thanks. Wow, your home is very nice!

B: Thank you. 2. Jim, are you and Jeff in the same class?

C: No, but we’re in the same grade.

B: 3.

C: She’s a nurse.

B: Oh, I’m a nurse, too4.

C: She works at the People’s Hospital.

B: Me, too. 5.

C: Sure. Her name is Tina Green.

B: Oh! It’s a small world(世界). Your mother and I are friends like you and Jeff.

A. May I have her name?

B. Come in and please have a seat.

C. What does your mother do?

D. Sit down (请坐), please.

E. How old is she?

F. Where does she work?

G. How is your mother?

―Where is your mom, John?

―My mother is talking ____ my teacher ____ my study.

A. about; to      B. with; about      C. to; with     D. about; with

The following is some children’s wish for the New Year.

BEIJING—Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has visited the "left-behind"(留守) children whose parents are working in cities before Children's Day.
During a visit to northwest China's Shanxi Province, Wen visited the home of Yang Saike, a primary school boy in a village of Xingping City. Yang, whose parents were working in Fujian, thousands of kilometers away, was cared for by his grandparents. His parents fail to go home even once a year. Wen talked with many children and asked them many questions about their schooling and life.
"You are so pretty," Wen said to Liu Mengqi, a seven-year-old girl living with her grandmother. Liu's parents were also working in the city.
"Have you been to school yet?" Wen asked two other girls.
"We are going to the pre-school class," said one.
"Mom and dad at home?" Wen asked. The children shook their heads.
"Children cannot see their parents very often, which is a new problem in the country-side. We should give them more care and love," said the premier.
The premier asked local governments to do something to protect and care for such children at home and freeing their parents in cities from worries about their children.
【小题1】Wen says a new problem in the country is that "left-behind" children _________.