《2025年阳光计划八年级英语下册人教版》

Should children do chores?
         People 1.______ that children as young as 18 months can help with chores. When people say to those children, “Just look at the paper,” 2.______ will pick it up. Some parents think childhood(童年) is just for playing, 3.______ they don't ask their children to do chores. Other parents have a different opinion, but they still give their children no chores. They say, “I know it's not right, but it's 4.______ to do it by myself!”
Most parents believe that chores are a way of 5.______ children responsibility(责任), anyway. Children learn to help, share and care about others by doing chores. Things like taking care of a pet or a baby and helping make meals are some 6.______ of helping others.
Well, I think there are some other very good 7.______ for children to do chores:
★To feel good: Doing chores helps children 8.______ that they're part of the team. They feel happier when they do something meaningful for the family.
★To learn skills(技巧): Children will learn 9.______ to cook, clean and do other things in the house. These life skills will serve them well throughout(贯穿整个时期) their lives.
All in all, it's good 10.______ children to grow up doing chores. So start to help your parents with the chores. Act now!
1. A. hope B. find C. wonder D. advise
2. A. I B. he C. we D. they
3. A. if B. so C. because D. although
4. A. cooler B. luckier C. quicker D. funnier
5. A. making B. teaching C. reading D. lending
6. A. examples B. messages C. preparations D. programs
7. A. steps B. activities C. reasons D. resolutions
8. A. decide B. imagine C. disagree D. understand
9. A. why B. when C. how D. what
10. A. for B. of C. with D. through

答案： 1.B解析:考查动词辨析。结合语境，这里用find表示发现做某事有好处。
2.D解析:考查代词辨析。句意:当人们对那些孩子说:“看看这张纸”，他们就会把它捡起来。
3.B解析:考查连词辨析。句意:一些家长认为童年只是为了玩，所以他们不要求孩子做家务。
4.C解析:考查形容词辨析。这里是指家长们通常觉得自己做家务更快，所以才不让孩子们插手家务。
5.B解析:考查动名词辨析。teach sb. sth.教某人某物。
6.A解析:考查名词辨析。空前列举的照顾宠物或婴儿和帮忙做饭这些都是具体的例子。
7.C解析:考查名词辨析。由文章结构可知，下文是一些鼓励孩子做家务的原因。
8.D解析:考查动词辨析。understand在这里表示“理解，明白”，符合语境。
9.C解析:这里是“疑问词+不定式”结构，how to do sth.怎样做某事，符合题意。
10.A解析:it is + adj. + for sb. + to do sth.对某人来说做某事是怎么样的。句意为“总之，孩子在成长过程中做家务是有好处的。”

Most children don’t enjoy doing chores. They like playing computer games instead of cleaning the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert's mother, Mrs. Black, has good and proper methods to get their children to do housework. Here is an example.

“Mom, have you worked out next week's chores? Let Jim and me choose the cards. I can't wait. It's fun!”

When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like these, “sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help Mom cook, wash vegetables, make beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom” and many others. Jim and Robert chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the weekday task board. Jim likes to clean the bathroom, so he picked up the card “clean the bathroom”. Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up his favorite card. Jim again picked up “wash vegetables” and Robert chose “feed the fish”. Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards.

To help the children do chores, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the parents did the chores at weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.

阅读短文,判断下列句子是否与短文内容相符,符合的写(A),不符合的写(B)。
(　　)11. From the passage we know that most children like doing chores.
(　　)12. Jim and Robert are excited to choose the cards and do the chores.
(　　)13. Jim and Robert chose two cards for the weekdays from Monday to Friday.
(　　)14. Jim likes to clean the bathroom.
(　　)15. The parents did the chores at weekends.

答案： 11.B解析:根据第一段中“Most children don't enjoy doing chores.”可知，大多数孩子不喜欢做家务。
12.A解析:根据第二段可知，Jim和Robert激动地去选卡片做家务。
13.B解析:根据第三段可知，从周一到周五，Jim和Robert每天选2张卡片。
14.A解析:根据第三段可知，Jim喜欢打扫浴室。
15.A解析:根据最后一段可知，父母是在周末做家务的。