Can you or do you wash your clothes? Can you cook meals for yourself when your parents are not at home?   1.

Today, many young people can’t look after themselves when they leave home.   2. I don’t want to be a person like that. I want to be more independent(独立的).

When I was only seven years old, I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying cooking. I always helped her.   3. She was really interested in teaching me how to cook. But when my mother got married (结婚), she didn’t know how to cook. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking. My mother did not start cooking until she was 25 years old.   4. She had to take cooking lessons. So she decided to teach us how to cook because she didn’t want us to have the same experience.

 5. I always wash my own clothes, and sometimes I wash my parents and my brother’s clothes, too. When my parents are not at home, I can cook meals for my brother and me.

A. At the beginning, it was difficult for her.

B. I did nothing at home, because my mother could help me.

C. My mother likes doing chores.

D. And now I can do many chores myself.

E. Do you often help do some chores at home?

F. I learned cooking from my mother.

G. They even can’t wash a pair of socks.

—Do you often help your cousin with his English?

—No. He learns English _______.

A. by himself????????????? B. for himself????????????? C. with himself????????????? D. on himself

Do you often help your mother do chores at home ?

1. A.
   do housework
2. B.
   do homework
3. C.
   do the dishes
4. D.
   do the laundry

--Can you tell us ___________ your parents do at home?.

        ---I often do the dishes and wash the clothes.

A. what do you often help      B. if you often help            

C. what you often help          D. how do you often help

—Do you often help your cousin with his English?
—No. He learns English _______.