She welcomes people, serves tea, washes dishes and cleans the floor. She seldom has a day off. At the end of the day,
"I feel so tired," said Sun, "My family is poor. There is no money for me to go to school. "
There are 250 million children in the world who are working in hard, sometimes dangerous conditions. India has the
biggest number of child workers in the world 44 million.
Children do all kinds of work. Most of them work in the fields. They pick vegetables, clear grass and move rocks.
Some work in factories making clothes, glass, matches and many other things. Others sell things in the markets.
Why do children work? Many children work to make money for their families to live on. Another reason is that
schools are too far away or there are no schools in the area at all.
In China, there is a law called "Prohibition of Child Labour" 《<禁止使用童工规定 》). It says any company
mustn"t hire children under 16 and anyone who introduces a child to work will be fined 5, 000 yuan.
B. She never has a rest.
C. She hardly has a free day.
D. She seldom gets full pay.
B. India.
C. Japan.
D. Korea.
B. Because there"re no places to study in.
C. Because they hate going to school.
D. Because they want to pay less money.
B. Make clothes and matches.
C. Go to school.
D. Move rocks.
B. Sun Mei"s Hard Life.
C. Children in China.
D. Child Workers in the World.
more and more of the earth. The moon is our neighbour in space. It is smaller than the earth. Plants can"t grow on the moon because there"s no air or water on it.
The moon hasn"t its own light. It shines back the light of the sun. When the sun is shining on the side
of the moon that faces(朝向）us. it looks like a great round ball. We can"t see the moon when the sun is
shining on the side of the moon that faces away from us. In fact, the moon is far away fromus. It is three
hundred and eighty thousand kilometers away from the earth. Of course, we can fly to the moon in a
spaceship. A spaceship flies very, very fast. It only takes more than three days to get there by spaceship!
away from us.
the l _. parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad-to England, the USA or
Australia. The Chinese believe that the more expensive the education is, the better it is. 2 _ parents will
spend a lot of money on their children"s education. Even 3 _ parents will buy a computer for their son
or daughter. Though they"re not rich, they would rather pay for the education.
Parents can see that their children"s skills are different, skilled(有技能的) in some areas while poor
in others. But most 4 fail to realize that the children today need more self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to 5 tests and how to study
well, but they are not teaching them the most important skills that they need. And these skills are important to help them to be 6 , happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching their children the skills like cooking or doing other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will 7 many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking needs
patience and time. It is an interesting but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his
cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish 8 job successfully. His result, a well-cooked
dinner, will make him 9 good and give him a lot of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play __10 , will
make him interested and want to know more. He will spend hours studying them and trying to fix them.
Your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are teaching a child not only to
study at school, but also to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
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is more than 6,500,000,000. Tha
t is a great num
ber and we know it quite well. The important thing is not how large thepopulation of the world is now, but is the speed of the growth. It"s about 1.63% every year.
In order to give you some ideas of the birth rate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second, four babies
are born in the world. Another baby! Another baby! An
other baby! Another b
aby! You cannot speak quickly enoughto keep up with the birth rate. The population is growing faster and faster. In one day, people have to find food for over
350,000 mouths more.
This growing population will ma
ke a big problem by the year 2010-there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people onthe earth! So this is one o
f the biggest problems that you are going to see in your life.
death is one of the most important world problems.( )2. The speed of the growth is slowing down.
( )3. Four babies are born every second in the world.
( )4. In one year, people have to find food for over 350,000 mouths more.
( )5. A big problem caused
by the population will appear by the year 2010.| A. These countries are found in much of Africa, South America and parts of Asia. B. These people don"t have enough food to eat and they live in poor housing. C. That may not  sound much, but it"s about 14,000 people per hour.D. But in the developing countries, many women have five or more children. E. It could hurt the environment and increase the number of poor people. |
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a according to the passage?