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阅读理解
Most kids 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 ways 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 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 the bed,
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 kids 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.
