Question

    What other things do you usually do except doing homework on weekends? Do you help your parents with the laundry? Our parents are usually very busy,so they need help with the housework,especially on weekends. As teenagers,it is the chance for us to learn life skills from the chores. What chores are suitable for us teenagers?

Taking Out the Trash 

   While it may be a dirty job,somebody has to do it. Although taking out the trash is far from fun,it only takes a few minutes to finish. If you truly find the smell of the family garbage very awful,cover your nose while you do this task. Mom and Dad will be glad when you take this task off their hands.

Cleaning Your Room 

   It's your space,so it may seem that you should be able to keep it clean. However,for most parents a messy room is a no-go place. Even though it is your room,it is a space in their house. So your parents would hope to see that this room stays tidy. Instead of telling your parents that you will clean your room tomorrow,make yourself keep this space clean.

1. The writer thinks that it is for teenagers to do the chores.

   A. hard   B. useful

   C. boring   D. interesting

2. What problem do we usually have while taking out the trash?

   A. The trash is too awful.

   B. The trash box is too far.

   C. The trash is always too heavy.

   D. No one likes taking out the trash.

3. According to the writer's opinion,most kids’ rooms

   A. are always clean

   B. are too small

   C. are quiet places

   D. are often kind of dirty

4. If your parents say that your room is a no-go place,you should .

   A. move out of the room

   B. clean it when you are free

   C. clean it right now

   D. ask them the reason

5. What's the best title for this passage?

   A. Keep Your Room Clean

   B. A No-go Room

   C. Life Skills

   D. Help Do the Chores

Answer 1

1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. D

導讀

這是一篇議論文。作者在提出了父母們很忙，我們應當 幫助他們做一些家務的觀點之后，為我們推薦了兩種比較適 合的家務。

詳析

1. B推理判斷題。在第一段中作者提到了做家務可以學到

生活的技能，所以，做家務是很有用處的。

2. A細節(jié)理解題。由第二段的第三句可知，當我們?nèi)永��?/p>

時，垃圾可能會很臭，這是我們常遇到的問題。

3. D細節(jié)理解題。由第三段的第二句可知，作者認為孩子

們的房間常常有點臟。

4. C推理判斷題。如果父母說你的房間是閑人免進房間，

那就意味著它太臟了，應當馬上清理。

5. D主旨大意題。由第一段的第二、三句可知，作者寫這篇

文章的目的是想讓我們幫助家長做些家務。

suitable 適合的 messy 凌亂的 no-go adj 閑人免進的 tidy adj 整齊的

障礙句分析

It's your space,so it may seem that you should be able to keep it clean.

這是你的空間，所以你似乎應該有能力讓它保持清潔。

這是一個由SO連接的并列句。在so it. .. clean中，it是 形式主語，that you should be able to keep it clean 是一個主語

從句。