Question

What do you usually do to get pocket money from your parents? In western countries, many children do chores to get pocket money. They usually start to do this at 10 years old.
School students have to do homework and study for tests. They don’t have a lot of free time in the week. They often do chores at the weekend.
Young kids only do easy chores. So they don’t get much money. But that’s all right. Many of them only want to buy candy. And candy is cheap! They help wash up after dinner and feed the family cat or dog.
When they get older, kids want to buy more and more things. They want things that are more expensive than candy. Then they have to work harder! They often wash the family car, cut the grass, walk the dog and cook dinner.
Some jobs are a good way for kids to learn new things. For example, they can learn to use a lawnmower(割草机) or how to cook. Of course, their parents help them at first.
小题1:How do the children in western countries get pocket money?
小题2:When do they usually start to get pocket money?
小题3:Why do the school students usually do chores at the weekend?
小题4:Why do the elder kids have to work harder?
小题5:How do they do the chores at the beginning?

Answer 1

小题1:They do chores.
小题2:At 10 years old.
小题3:School students have to do homework and study for tests.
They don’t have a lot of free time in the week.
小题4:They want to buy more and more things. / They want things
that are expensive than candy.
小题5:Their parents help them at first.

试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了美国的家庭教育，孩子们一般从十岁开始就开始做家务，以此来获得零花钱。长大后为了更多的需要，而更加努力地工作。
小题1:根据In western countries, many children do chores to get pocket money.可知答：They do chores.
小题2:根据第一段They usually start to do this at 10 years old.描述，可知答：At 10 years old.
小题3:根据第二段   School students have to do homework and study for tests. They don’t have a lot of free time in the week. They often do chores at the weekend.描述，可知答：School students have to do homework and study for tests. /They don’t have a lot of free time in the week.
小题4:根据第四段When they get older, kids want to buy more and more things. They want things that are more expensive than candy. Then they have to work harder! 描述，可知答：They want to buy more and more things. / They want things that are expensive than candy.
小题5:根据最后一段Of course, their parents help them at first.描述，可知答：Their parents help them at first.
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