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Most children don't enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than 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.
"Mum, have you worked out next week's housework? 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 mum 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 week day 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 housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of course, the
parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.
1. From the passage we know that most children like ________.
A. doing housework
B. playing computer games
C. playing cards
D. doing housework
2. Jim and Robert chose card for the weekdays from Monday to Friday.
A. two
B. four
C. eight
D. ten
3. Jim likes to ________.
A. clean the bathroom
B. make the bed
C. feel the fish
D. sweep the floor
4. The underlined phrase "came up with" probably means "________".
A. looked at
B. gave up
C. thought of
D. believed in
5. Who did the housework on the weekends?
A. Jim
B. Robert
C. The parents
D. The whole family
