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

导读

这是一篇议论文。作者在提出了父母们很忙，我们应当 帮助他们做一些家务的观点之后，为我们推荐了两种比较适 合的家务。

详析

1. B推理判断题。在第一段中作者提到了做家务可以学到

生活的技能，所以，做家务是很有用处的。

2. A细节理解题。由第二段的第三句可知，当我们扔垃圾

时，垃圾可能会很臭，这是我们常遇到的问题。

3. D细节理解题。由第三段的第二句可知，作者认为孩子

们的房间常常有点脏。

4. C推理判断题。如果父母说你的房间是闲人免进房间，

那就意味着它太脏了，应当马上清理。

5. D主旨大意题。由第一段的第二、三句可知，作者写这篇

文章的目的是想让我们帮助家长做些家务。

suitable 适合的 messy 凌乱的 no-go adj 闲人免进的 tidy adj 整齐的

障碍句分析

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

这是你的空间，所以你似乎应该有能力让它保持清洁。

这是一个由SO连接的并列句。在so it. .. clean中，it是 形式主语，that you should be able to keep it clean 是一个主语

从句。