This story is about Mrs.Jones. She is 82 years old. Although her life was hard, she was always nicely dressed every day.

This morning Mrs Jones was moving to the nursing home(养老院). The nursing home was very _______. After hours of waiting, Mrs.Jones still smiled sweetly when she was told that her room was ready. ______the way to her room, I told her what the room was like.

Suddenly she said,“I love it!” “But Mrs Jones, you haven’t seen the room yet!” I was ______

at her reply.

She stopped and said, “Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on ______ the furniture is placed(放置). It depends on how I decide to ______the room. I have already decided to love the room before I ______ see it.”

Then she continued, “I have a choice. I can spend the day in bed and consider how tiny my room is. Or I can just ______ bed and be thankful that I can ______ enjoy a new day. Each day is a gift. I’ll enjoy my life and all the happy memories that I have stored in my bank account(账户) before.”

Life is like a bank account.You can ______ what you’ve put in. If you have put a lot of ______

in your bank account, you can enjoy some of it when you feel sad.

Attitude(态度) is everything.

1.A. narrow B. beautiful C. busy D. big

2.A. On B. In C. By D. Through

3.A. surprised B. excited C. scared D. satisfied

4.A. why B. which C. what D. how

5.A. look up B. think about C. clean up D. care about

6.A. clearly B. carefully C. actually D. nearly

7.A. get down B. get off C. get out of D. get up

8.A. just B. still C. ever D. only

9.A. take out B. take up C. take off D. take away

10.A. love B. courage C. kindness D. happiness

Maybe most of us do not enjoy doing housework. We hate to do it. But I think it’s our job to do housework. Here is some advice for you.

★Learn to do little things

Doing housework is really not as bad as it sounds. If we all do our parts of housework, it will seem much less tiring. We can do little things first. It will show that you are growing up.

★Divide housework among (在……之中) the family

Your parents are also busy. They work all day and they have to keep the house clean. So it’s necessary to make everyone do housework. It will make everyone’s job easier.

★ Make it fun

If you can make housework a funny thing, that will be great. Most people think cooking can be fun if you put your heart into it. For example, if you cook a wonderful meal, your family or friends will be proud (骄傲的) of you.

1.How many pieces of advice does the writer give us?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

2.If we do our parts of the housework, it will seem _______.

A. tiring B. relaxing C. difficult D. heavy

3.The underlined word “divide” means “_____” in Chinese.

A. 分配 B. 提供 C. 管理 D. 交换

4.According to the passage the writer thinks that ________.

A. parents should do all the housework

B. everybody in the family should do housework

C. dividing housework among the family is not necessary

D. cooking can never be fun

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Learn to do housework

B. Learn to be a good cook

C. Small things we should do

D. How to divide housework among the family

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