According to a survey(调查) by CIF, there's room for improvement all over Britain.

Cleaning our home, love or hate it, is one job you have to work on. But that is not to say everyone spends the same amount(量) of time or effort on making their places tidy. A new survey by CIF—experts on making cleaning jobs easier—shows that when it comes to washing windows or cleaning the oven(炉), where you live in the UK may show how much effort you put into the job.

BATHROOM

25% of men have never cleaned the toilet, but those in Wales are the worst. Nearly four in ten Welsh men said they never cleaned anywhere in the house. Hate cleaning the shower head? You are not alone—a quarter of a million British people say the same. 20% of Scottish people regard window-cleaning as their most hated job.

KITCHEN

36% of people in the southeast say cleaning the cooker is their hated task. 68% of those in the northeast spend more than six hours a week cleaning their homes, especially the kitchen. In sharp contrast(强烈的对比) to that, 49% of Welsh people put their hands up to cleaning for under an hour.

BEDROOM

18% believe cleaning starts here: that's the percentage of women who clean wearing their dressing gowns(a kind of clothes). 51% of women in the northwest may be staying in bed and giving their husbands a cuddle(拥抱)as a “thank you” for helping them clean. In other places, there are far fewer helpful men.

LIVINGROOM

32% of women in the northeast turn up the CD player to help make the cleaning more fun. Almost six in ten women agree, however, that cleaning is seriously energetic exercise.

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1.The main purpose of this passage is to ________.

A.tell us the results of a certain survey

B.advertise a certain cleaning product

C.show us which is the hardest job at home

D.advise men to do more cleaning housework

2.From the survey we can know that people in different parts of Britain ________.

A.have different ways to do housework

B.like to do different kinds of housework

C.have so many different kinds of tools on house cleaning

D.spend different amounts of time and effort on house cleaning

3.According to the survey, ________ spend the most time cleaning their homes.

A.people in Wales B.people in the northwest

C.people in the southeast D.people in the northeast

4.CIF in the passage probably refers to ________.

A.an organization doing research on housework

B.some experts who give advice on doing housework

C.a company providing advice and products on cleaning

D.a TV show about providing cleaning products

Ever since we became pen pals, Julien has sent me strange things. Once, she sent her sneeze in a jar.(“I have a cold, can you tell?” she wrote.) Then she sent her fingerprint.(“So you’ll recognize me in a crowd.”)

Julien sent me breakfast, all right: cornflakes. Soggy, milky, grainy, crumbly, limp cornflakes scraped from the bottom of her cereal bowl. I lost my appetite, but I read the letter.

Dear Caitlin,

These cornflakes were so nutritious that I wanted to share this high-fiber, low-so-dium, just-three-calories, balanced breakfast with you.

Enjoy,

Julien

P. S. Next week I’m sending you a sunset.

“She’s mistaken,” I told my mom. “No one can send a sunset, not even Julien. It’s impossible.”

“I don’t know,” Mom said. “Julien might find a way. After all, she did send you her sneeze.”

A week later I checked the mail and found a box with air holes and the words “FRAGILE—THIS SIDE UP” printed in bold black letters on the top. It was from Julien.

I stroked the box with my fingers. It was perfectly dry. I smelled it. It didn’t smell. I held my breath and started opening the package. What if sunbeams spring out and hit me in the face like those fake snakes in a can? I thought.

My hands shook as I lifted the last flap and peeked inside. Where in the world was the sunset? All I could find was a letter and a twisty, gray, papery shell. It looked like a submarine. I read the letter.

Dear Caitlin ,

The sunsets at my house are so beautiful that I had to give you a piece. I counted at least five different colors in one yesterday. Can you find more?

Hugs and smoochies,

Julien

I looked again at the gray shell. That’s no sunset, I thought. “You must mean the submarines at your house, Julien,” I said. Without reading the postscript, I laid the letter and the submarine on the kitchen table. Then I left the room to find a pen so that I could cross out “sunset” and write “submarine” above it.

When I returned, I stared in shock at the submarine. A creature was oozing out of it! Was it a sea monster? I looked closer. It was a winged creature... an insect... a butterfly. An orange, blue, purple, red, and gold butterfly. It looked like... a sunset!

While the sunset opened and closed its wings to dry them, I read Julien’s postscript. It said, “P. S. Next week I’m sending you Japan.”

1.What does the underlined word“ oozing” probably mean?

A.Moving. B.Jumping.

C.Swimming. D.Flying.

2.What did Julien really want Caitlin to see in the fourth mail?

A.The setting sun. B.Colors of a sunset.

C.A colorful butterfly. D.A new submarine.

3.We can learn from the passage that Julien was ________.

A.strange and clever B. honest and friendly

C.creative and giving D. funny and inventive

4.What can be inferred from the passage?

A.Caitlin was from Japan and had never seen Julien.

B.Caitlin’s mom thought Julien’s gifts were fantastic.

C.Caitlin was pleased with the cornflakes that Julien sent.

D.Caitlin was expecting another unusual gift from Julien.

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