It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

My daughter Carla’s fifth-grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a perfect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.

You can use the same technique when you evaluate your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he had done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.

Learning is a process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

1. The whole passage deals with ______.

A. social education B. school education

C. family education D. pre-school education

2. The author thinks that ______.

A. there is no way to get children to help at home

B. the more encouragement and praise you give, the more responsible and helpful children will become

C. it is very difficult to make children responsible for housework

D. children can be forced to help with housework

3. The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate your child’s work at home. That is to ______.

A. praise his success　 B. promise him a trip

C. give him a punishment D. promise him a ball game

4. The author advises readers to ______.

A. learn from himself, for he has a good way of teaching

B. take pride in Carla’s fifth-grade teacher

C. do as what Carla’s teacher did in educating children

D. follow Carla’s example because she never fails in the test

5. Having read the last paragraph, we can conclude that ______.

A. pride goes before a fall B. practice makes perfect

C. no pains, no gains　 　 D. failure is the mother of success

The boy lifted the stone with all his ____________(力量).

The forest is ______ animals. If animals do not have home to live in, their life becomes more dangerous.（ ）

A. the home to　　　　 B. a home of　　 C. the home of　 D. a home to

77.Many a child in the Hope Project 　　　　　　　　　　 have a beautiful classroom.

By no means _____ to your parents.

A. is this the first time you are lying

B. this is the first time you have lied

C. this is the first time you tell a lie

D. is this the first time you have lied

______ the growing number of patients, the clinic had to extend its service from five days to seven days a week.

A. To accommodate　　 B. Accommodating

C. Being accommodated 　 D. Accommodated

Don’t you believe it! Glass can ________ steel in many ways in life.

      A. take place of                 B. take the place of

      C. in place of                      D. instead of

The policeman's attention was suddenly caught by a small box which ______ placed under the Minister's car.
  A. has been     B. was being  C. had been   D. would be

This is an important matter. I need at least a day or two __________.

　 A. of thinking over it　　　　　　　　 B. to think it over

　 C. of thinking it over　　　　　　　　 D. to think over it