Question

Today children always want to get anything they want at home, but they wouldn’t do housework. To teach my children a   36   , I decided to go on a cleaning strike for a(n)   37   , but I wouldn’t announce it.

   38   telling my girls, I did no picking up or cleaning those days. I still cooked and washed clothes, but things that they could   39   do themselves, such as tidying up after themselves, I wouldn’t do. Would a week be enough for Lois and Joe to notice their mess and   40   their tidy gene? I started   41   to see the result.

Day One of the strike passed as   42   . Lois and Joe left for   43   at 8 am, leaving behind bowls and dishes on the table. With great efforts, I ignored the   44   and headed out to work directly. Of course, the children’s bowls were still there when they came back from school. Where was their   45   point? I desired to clear the mess, but it didn’t seem to   46   them. In fact, I didn’t think they even noticed.

Day Two and Three followed the   47   pattern, and both the coffee table and the kitchen worktop were filled with some pretty dirty dishes. I   48   whether I had the staying power to see this through. By Day Four, however, I saw some signs of   49   and they developed a taste for order. When I opened the door, I was   50   to see everything in the kitchen was where it should be. After four days, my children were so sick of the mess, so they cleaned up themselves. Since then, they have kept the   51   of helping me with the housework. They   52   to wash the bowls while I tidied the room.   53   , every day they put their bedrooms in order.

I thought my experiment was   54   . As long as parents had   55   with children, they could learn many things from everyday life.

36.    A. skill 37.    A. week 38.    A. Without 39.    A. regularly 40.    A. appreciate 41.    A. suggesting 42.    A. well 43.    A. cinema 44.    A. food 45.    A. laughing 46.    A. frighten 47.    A. traditional 48.    A. doubted 49.    A. progress 50.    A. proud 51.    A. task 52.    A. determined 53.    A. What’s more 54.    A. cruel 55.    A. quarrel

B. custom B. day B. By B. easily B. abandon B. refusing B. always B. hospital B. dishes B. crying B. bother B. humorous B. believed B. confidence B. curious B. habit B. pretended B. After all B. negative B. patience

C. lesson C. hour C. After C. hardly C. improve C. planning C. follows C. school C. mess C. succeeding C. threaten C. different C. hoped C. responsibility C. amazed C. demand C. planned C. In short C. beneficial C. fight

D. regulation D. month D. Besides D. eagerly D. awaken D. expecting D. regards D. office D. disaster D. breaking D. embarrass D. same D. imagined D. disappointment D. disgusted D. wish D. volunteered D. Worse still D. worthless D. deal

Answer 1

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