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.

根据句意和首字母或汉语提示，将单词的正确形式写在题中相应的横线上。

1.There’s nothing in this box. Look, it’s e______________.

2.If you are in danger, remember to dial (拨) the telephone n ______________ 110 at once.

3.— Do you know what the p ______________ of China is now?

— It’s over 1.3 billion.

4.The ice is too t ______________. It's very dangerous to skate on it.

5.It’s good for our health to g ______________ up early in the morning.

6.Last summer holiday, my teacher ______________ (介绍) Joy to me, and now we are close friends.

7.Jack is so smart that he can answer these questions ______________ (容易地) .

8.People will use robots to do the ______________ (家务) in the future.

9.Little Tom did quite well in the English exam. He hardly made any ______________ （错误） .

10.This is our new teaching building. It was  ______________（建造）last year.

根据句子意思和所给首字母或中文提示，在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使句意通顺。

1.He has developed his f____________ in English from his childhood and now he can communicate freely with natives from English-speaking countries.

2.As most of the population in China are farmers, a____________ plays an important part.

3.In order to reduce the toll of death and disease from tobacco, they have r____________ its production.

4.This is an e____________ tough task, but I think you can fulfill it.

5.At the news of Qian Xuesheng's death, the whole n____________ was in deep sorrow.

6.It was their wisdom and ____________ (勇气) that helped them win over the hardship.

7.They are hardworking and ____________ (因此) they have done a good job.

8.____________（逐渐地）, the children began to understand.

9.Tom o____________ (欠) me 500 Yuan.

10.I persuaded my mother to buy me a/an ____________ (便携的，手提的) computer.

Governments and health officials around the world continued to take steps Tuesday against the outbreak of swine flu that has killed scores of people in Mexico and spread to the U.S., Europe and possibly Asia.

By early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico had caused in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses. So far, at least 113 cases have been proved worldwide, including 64 in the United States; six in Canada; 11 in New Zealand and two each in Spain the United Kingdom and Israel. None has yet resulted in death.

The World Health Organization on Monday raised its alert level from three to four on its six-level scale. The move means the U.N. agency has determined that the virus can transmit

from human to human.

"In this age of global travel, where people move around in airplanes so quickly, there is no region to which this virus could not spread," said Fukuda, assistant director-general of the WHO.

Governments around the world struggled to prevent further outbreak. Some, like China and Russia, banned pork imports from the United States and Mexico. U.S. President Barack Obama said the outbreak was a cause for concern, not for alarm. The government urged travelers to avoid non-essential travel to Mexico.

The latest WHO report listed only seven proved swine flu deaths in Mexico but it was not clear why there was the discrepency.

Mexico City has closed all schools until at least May 6 to help curb(control) the spread of swine flu and ordered 35,00 public venues to close or serve only takeaway meals. In addition, bars, clubs, movie theaters, pool halls, gyms, sport centers and convention halls have been told to close until May 5. Armed police officers are also guarding hospitals in Mexico City while roads and schools in the city of 20 million people are deserted. Officials also have talked about shutting down the bus and subway systems.

How many people were found catching swine flu in Spain?

A. 2.           B. 11.      C. 6.           D. 64.

When learning the outbreak of swine flu, the WHO was ____.

A. calm     B. nervous  C. shocked  D. careful

Fukuda’s words suggest that _____.

A. he likes travel by air

B. global travel hasn’t been affected

C. this virus can spread quickly because of global travel

D. planes must be forbidden to take to prevent swine flu

The last paragraph mainly tells us _____.

A. Mexico has taken measures to control swine flu

B. Mexico City is too dangerous to live in

C. the normal life in Mexico has been changed

D. people in Mexico are badly in need of help

LONDON (Reuters) — Children are dying for lack of drugs tailored to their needs, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which launched a global campaign on Thursday to promote more research into child medicine.
More than half of the drugs currently used to treat children in the industrialized world have not been specifically tested on youngsters.
The problem is even worse in developing countries where price remains a major barrier and 6 million children die each year from treatable conditions.
In the case of HIV/AIDS, the few existing pediatric therapies（儿科的疗法）developed for children generally cost three times more than adult ones.
As a result, clinicians lack clear guidelines on the best drug to use and often have to guess at the correct dose.
Fortunately, the WHO has drawn up the first international List of Essential Medicines for Children, containing 206 products considered safe for children.
“But a lot remains to be done. There are priority medicines that have not been adapted for children’s use or are not available when needed,” said Dr Hans, the U.N. agency’s director of medicines policy and standards.
Medicines that need to be adapted to children’s needs include many antibiotics, pain drugs as well as combination pills for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
The agency is building an Internet entrance linking to clinical trials carried out in children and will launch a Web site with the information early next year.
Testing medicines on children has always been a controversial issue, since good ethical（伦理的）practice requires informed agreement from people participating in clinical trials, which is difficult to obtain in the case of children.
As a result, research-based drug companies have been wary of developing child-friendly medicines and general companies have been slow to produce them at lower cost.
In an attempt to deal with the issue, both Europe and the United States now have special rules offering extended patent protection for drugs that have been tested on children.
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