Can you or do you wash your clothes? Can you cook meals for yourself when your parents are not at home?   1.

Today, many young people can’t look after themselves when they leave home.   2. I don’t want to be a person like that. I want to be more independent(独立的).

When I was only seven years old, I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying cooking. I always helped her.   3. She was really interested in teaching me how to cook. But when my mother got married (结婚), she didn’t know how to cook. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking. My mother did not start cooking until she was 25 years old.   4. She had to take cooking lessons. So she decided to teach us how to cook because she didn’t want us to have the same experience.

 5. I always wash my own clothes, and sometimes I wash my parents and my brother’s clothes, too. When my parents are not at home, I can cook meals for my brother and me.

A. At the beginning, it was difficult for her.

B. I did nothing at home, because my mother could help me.

C. My mother likes doing chores.

D. And now I can do many chores myself.

E. Do you often help do some chores at home?

F. I learned cooking from my mother.

G. They even can’t wash a pair of socks.

Should teenagers help their parents do chores? Is it important for us to learn how to do chores?

I have a classmate called Li Ting. She is the only child in her family. Her parents love her so much that they don’t let her do any chores. On weekdays she gets up, has meals, goes to school, has lessons, she only plays with her friends. So she doesn’t know how to do chores. One day, her father was badly ill and was in hospital. Her mother had to take care of her father in the hospital and couldn’t cook meals for her for a week. Li Ting didn’t know how to cook meals. She had a lot of trouble cooking meals and often felt hungry. She only had instant noodles(方便面)for her meals.

From the story, we know it’s very important for us to learn to do chores.

1.How many children are there in Li Ting’s family?

2.The writer thinks it is________ for teenagers to learn to do chores.

3. Li Ting doesn’t__________.

4. Why did Li Ting only have instant noodles for her meals when her parents weren’t at home?

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

I have never taken cooking classes. I learned cooking from my mother because she was really interested in teaching me how to cook. The main reason for this was because when my mother got married, she didn't know how to cook anything, not even an egg. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking.

My mother did not start to cook until she was 25 years old. In the beginning, it was very hard for her. So, she had to take cooking classes to prepare(准备) our meals. After having that experience, she decided to teach me how to cook because she didn't want me to have the same experience.

I remember when I was seven years old, and my mother was cooking, I was with her in the kitchen enjoying cooking. I always helped her. Sometimes we prepared meals that my mother already knew how to make, and sometimes we prepared them from recipes. Nowadays, I am really thankful for that experience because I don't need help to cook a meal. I can cook for me alone or for a group of people; it doesn't matter.

I will do the same with my children because I don't want them to have the same experience as my mother. If one day I am not with them, I want to be sure that they can carry on their lives without me.  

1. The writer’s mother learned cooking _______.

A. from the writer’s grandmother

B. all by herself

C. by taking cooking class

2.The underlined word recipes in this passage most probably means _______.

A. instructions on how to cook food

B. experiences of cooking food

C. some well-known cooks

3.We can learn from the passage that the writer’s children will _______.

A. hate cooking

B. learn cooking

C. teach cooking

4. The writer must think cooking is _______ to learn in life.

   A. interesting           B. difficult            C. necessary

5.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. the writer’s mother didn't know how to cook anything but an egg.

B. the writer’s mother started to cook after 25 years old.

C. the writer’s mother taught the writer how to cook because she disliked cooking.

A man went to buy a piece of meat. As he didn’t know how to cook meat, he asked the butcher? (屠夫) to tell him the way of cooking it. The butcher told him how to cook it, “But I can’t remember your words,” the man said. “Will you please write them down for me?” The butcher was kind enough to write them down for him. The man went home happily with the meat in his hand and the note (字条) in his pocket (口袋). A dog followed him on the way. It jumped at him, took the meat away and ran off. The man stood there, not knowing what to do. Then he laughed and said, “never mind. You don’t know how to eat it. The note is still in my pocket.”

1.The man went to buy a piece of meat in __________.

A. restaurant????? B. shop?????? C. butcher’s????? D. chemist’s

2.Why did the man asked the butcher to tell him the way to cook meat?

A. He wasn’t good at cooking meat.

B. He can’t cook meat very well.

C. He didn’t know how to cook meat.

D. He didn’t know how to eat meat.

3.In order to (为了) remember what the butcher said, he asked the butcher _______.

A. to say it once again????????? B. to teach him again

C. to show him how to cook it??? D. to write it down for him

4.What happened in the end?

A. He forgot to cook the meat.???

B. The dog took the meat away.

C. He taught(教)the dog how to eat the meat.???

D. The note is still in his pocket.

5.What do you think of the man?

A. He was afraid of dogs.???

B. He loved dogs very much.

C. He was a very foolish(愚蠢的)man.??

D. He didn’t know how to do things.

Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do   1 . Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.
Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents went away   2  business, so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be happy   3  her parents were not in. She could do everything   4  she liked. But it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt  5 . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she   6  know how to cook. At that moment, she missed her   7  very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and   8  some food to eat.
Many of teenagers are   9  as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves   10 . They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.