—All the best with your family.

 —________.

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—All the best with your family.

 —________.

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The Best Holiday

 I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter. Emily   41   to buy a mountain bike. She’d been saving her pocket money all year,   42   doing small jobs to earn extra money.

 By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You   43   have your pick from my bicycle   44  .” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950’s models, not the kind a kid today would   45   choose.

As Christmas   46   near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she   __47   a Salvation Army volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, I’m out of   48  .”

  Throughout December, Emily continued to   49   hard. Then one day, she made a   __50   announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $ 58 to a volunteer who was really very   51  .

  52   by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute   53   of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children.    54   I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow (发光). Should I   contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t   55   the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later   56   the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very __57  , sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re   58   away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”

Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the   59  ? I like to think it was God’s way of   60   a little girl for a sacrifice beyond her years－while giving her dad a lesson in the process.

Where can you spend the night in a tour?

   A. Cook's Cottage.                                      B. Westfield Centrepoint.  

C. Sydney Tower.                        D. Sovereign Hill.

What is the time that Cook's Cottage is open on Saturday in the summer?

   A. 11:00 am--2:00 pm.                   B. 5:00 pm--10:30 pm.

   C. 9:00 am--5:30 pm.                    D. 9:00 am--5:00 pm.

The Anchorage Restaurant is__________.

A. in Williamstown                     B. in the centre of the city

C. in Anchorage                        D. in a Cantonese fishing port

If you want to buy the best products in Australia, you may call_________.

   A. 9397 6270       B. 9231 9300       C.  5331 1944          D.  9419 4677

The Best of Friends

The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image (印象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.

An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious (叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”

So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”

Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”

What is the popular image of teenagers today?

A. They worry about school.                  B. They quarrel a lot with other family members

C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.   . D. They dislike living with their parents.

The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ______.

A. share family responsibility              B. make family decisions

C. go boating with their family             D. cause trouble in their families

Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents______.

A. go to clubs more often with their children       B. give their children more freedom

C. care less about their children’s life             D. are much stricter with their children

According to the author, teenage rebellion ______.

 A. existed only in the 1960s                  B. is common nowadays

 C. may be a false belief                     D. resulted from changes in families

What is the passage mainly about?

A. Harmony in family.                         B. Education in family.

C. Negotiation in family.                       D. Teenage trouble in family.