A new survey of 100 hard-working mothers shows that they spend about 70 hours a week doing chores and looking after their families.
They spend more than ten hours a day cooking, cleaning the house, getting children ready for school and helping with homework. Cooking takes up (占用) about one hour and nine minutes a day. Doing the laundry takes about 61 minutes. Mothers also spend about 55 minutes getting children ready for school, about 53 minutes putting them to bed and about 47 minutes helping with homework.
However, 30% of those mothers with children under 16 get less than six hours’ sleep at night. 83% are not happy because they have less than an hour of their own(自己的) time every day. Only 17% are happy with this kind of life.
【小题1】In the survey, mothers spend about 70 hours a week __________.

A．going shopping	B．doing chores
C．looking after their families	D．Both B and C

【小题2】It takes mothers _________ to cook every day.

A．about 69 minutes	B．about 55 minutes
C．about 47 minutes	D．about 10 hours

【小题3】In the survey, ________ mothers with children under 16 sleep less than six hours at night.

A．100

B．70

C．83

D．30

【小题4】From the survey, we know that _________________.

A．no mothers like this kind of life

B．a few mothers are hard-working

C．most mothers want to have more time to do their own things

D．all mothers would like to work harder

A）请先阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将其填到相应位置。（每小题1分，共15分）

New rules and Behavior Standards for middle school students came out in March. A middle school is going to start new rules        who the top students are. The best students will        have high marks, they will also be ones who don’t color their hair, smoke or drink. The following are more of the new rules.

Tell the truth. Have you ever copied        work in an exam? Don’t do it again! That’s not something        students should do. If you are playing computer games in your room, don’t tell your parents you are doing homework.

Do more activities at school. Good students love animals and        others. April is Bird Loving Month in China. Is your school doing anything to celebrate it? You should join! That way you can learn more about animals and   46   them. When more people work together, it brings us more       .

Learn to co-operate. When your basketball team is       , only working together can make your team       . Be friendly to the people you are with. Try to think of others, not only yourself.

Be open to new ideas. Have you ever thought that people could live on the moon? Maybe you’ll        Earth Ⅱ someday. Don’t look down upon new ideas. All the ideas are important. You should welcome them, because new ideas make life better for everyone.

Pay attention to your safety. You should not walk        outside, especially at night.       where the public phones are. If ________ happens, you can find them quickly. If you take a bus to a place far away, please don’t sleep. This stops a stranger from        money from you.

Use the Internet carefully. The Internet can be very useful for your studies.        not everything on the Internet is fit for kids. You may enter healthy websites for your homework or just for fun.

1.A. to allow         B. to make              C. to divide                      D. to decide

2.A. neither         B. both                C. not only                      D. only

3.A. anyone else       B. someone else’s     C. your partners                D. any other ones

4.A. honest          B. calm                C. brave                        D. hard-working

5.A. call for           B. take care          C. call on           D. care for

6.A. what to feed     B. how to protect    C. how to play with   D. how to get on

7.A. happier          B. happiness          C. happily                      D. happy

8.A. lost              B. winning            C. beating                      D. losing

9.A. stronger              B. less unusual  C. more unfamiliar   D. more specially

10.A. notice         B. find out            C. discover                  D. live

11.A. alone          B. lonely              C. slowly                   D. fast

12.A. Making sure  B. To be sure         C. Make sure              D. Being sure

13.A. unpleasant something                        B. anything pleasant  

          C. dangerous something                             D. anything dangerous

14.A. to carry      B. to steal             C. carrying                  D. stealing

15.A. Therefore    B. But                  C. Since             D. Then

 

Are they doing____ homework?

A. them  B. theirs  C. they  D. their

 

A new term has begun. Teachers are __36__ about the fact that new students are not easy to handle. They like to bring cellphones and MP3 players to school. What is __37__, some students even use cellphones to do with out-of-class matters in class, or sometimes just for fun. Some other students listen to MP3 players when they are having a lesson that they are not interested in.

Are these new students really that __38__? ‘Yes,’ says Delaney Kirk, a professor at Drake University. __39__ she adds it’s not their fault. Instead, the things that they bring into school --- cellphones, MP3 players and so on --- and the teachers are to blame. Kirk first began thinking about students’ manners six years ago. ‘I had my first class in which students were sleeping or talking to each other. It seemed that learning well __40__ nothing to do with them,’ she says. ‘At first, I got worried about this, but then I said to myself, “You’re teaching __41__, and you need to manage this … These students need to know more about manners. It’s time to help them develop some good __42__. They shouldn’t waste time doing nothing when they are young. Sooner or later, they might regret the time they have wasted.”’

Kirk also __43__ a list of suggestions to help teachers better manage their classes. The following are among her suggestions:

l     Tell students how they will benefit by taking the class. On the first day of class, emphasize its importance __44__ giving some homework that students must turn in next time.

l     Do not allow them to bring cellphones and MP3 players to the class at all.

l     Decide __45__ formal and informal the class will be.

1.	A．excited B．worried C．surprised D．interested

 

2.	A．bad B．worse C．good D．better

 

3.	A．rude B．polite C．friendly D．curious

 

4.	A．But B．However C．And D．Therefore

 

5.	A．learned B．did C．had D．shared

 

6.	A．management B．English C．Chinese D．lessons

 

7.	A．ideas B．speeches C．habits D．classes

 

8.	A．makes B．brings C．gets D．takes

 

9.	A．of B．on C．at D．by

 

10.	A．what B．how C．which D．why

 

A new survey of 100 hard-working mothers shows that they spend about 70 hours a week doing chores and looking after their families.

They spend more than ten hours a day cooking, cleaning the house, getting children ready for school and helping with homework. Cooking takes up (占用) about one hour and nine minutes a day. Doing the laundry takes about 61 minutes. Mothers also spend about 55 minutes getting children ready for school, about 53 minutes putting them to bed and about 47 minutes helping with homework.

However, 30% of those mothers with children under 16 get less than six hours’ sleep at night. 83% are not happy because they have less than an hour of their own(自己的) time every day. Only 17% are happy with this kind of life.

1.In the survey, mothers spend about 70 hours a week __________.

A. going shopping                           B. doing chores

C. looking after their families                 D. Both B and C

2.It takes mothers _________ to cook every day.

A. about 69 minutes                     B. about 55 minutes    

C. about 47 minutes                     D. about 10 hours

3.In the survey, ________ mothers with children under 16 sleep less than six hours at night.

A. 100              B. 70               C. 83           D. 30

4.From the survey, we know that _________________.

A. no mothers like this kind of life

B. a few mothers are hard-working

C. most mothers want to have more time to do their own things

D. all mothers would like to work harder