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阅读理解
Most children don't enjoy doing housework.
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.
"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 bed- room, 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 weekday task board. Jim
likes to clean the bathroom best, so he picked up the card "clean the
bathroom" first. Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up his
favourite 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 thought up this idea. Of course, their parents
did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.
