Are you always unwilling to do housework and cleaning for no reason? Well, you will be happy today. Today is No Housework Day. It’s time to forget about housework and be relaxed.
No Housework Day is always on April 7th. It is your chance to do anything, except housework. Better still, have someone else do housework for a day. Housework is a daily and endless job and most people think it’s boring to do housework. I have many friends and their wish is to stay away from housework. In fact, their wish can never come true.
Do you know how to celebrate No Housework Day? Well , there are two different ways.
If you usually do the housework around the house, forget it on this day. Instead, kick back and enjoy the day. Relax and do anything, except housework.
If you never do housework, you can do it for your family. It gives your parents a break from the housework. And, you just might get a chance to know how much housework your parents need to do every day.
1.The writer has many friends and their wish is _________.
A. not to do any housework any more
B. to ask others to do their housework
C. to celebrate No Housework Day
D. to ask all the family members to do housework
2.If Lisa never does housework, the writer thinks she can _________ on No Housework Day.
A. forget housework B. do housework
C. feel relaxed D. do anything except housework
3.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. It’s about the daily housework.
B. It’s about our duty and right.
C. It’s about No Housework Day.
D. It’s about some national holiday.
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Malala Yousafzai Brave, a 19-year-old girl, has been thought to be clever and determined（坚定的）since October 9, 2012 when Taliban gunmen entered her school bus and shot (枪击) her head.
Before this day, Malala had been speaking out for girls’ education in her country of Pakistan. The doctors, who treated Malala after she was shot, didn’t that she would live but she did so much more than just live－she .
Malala has recently a book named “I am Malala”. She has joined talk shows and has had the chance to meet with the US President Barack Obama.
On July 12th, her sixteenth birthday, Malala made her first public appearance after she was shot. She spoke in the United Nations students, teachers, and some important guests.
In her speech, Malala made it that the Taliban did not reach their goal of stopping her strong . Nothing changed in her life, Malala said－except that: weakness, and hopelessness died; strength, power and courage were born. Malala told her listeners that she would continue to fight for education in her country and all over the world.
Through her speech, Malala is trying to help us that a gun may hit her body but not her heart. She won Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
1.A. sad B. happy C. rainy D. snowy
2.A. know B. expect C. find D. wish
3.A. died B. lived C. improved D. lost
4.A. read B. borrowed C. found D. written
5.A. across from B. in front of C. next to D. behind
6.A. happy B. lucky C. clear D. right
7.A. voice B. health C. sound D. words
8.A. happiness B. care C. interest D. fear
9.A. better B. worse C. harder D. easier
10.A. wonder B. guess C. know D. understand
— I heard you have a chance to enter that top university in the world?
— .
A. Don’t mention it. B. That’s not the case.
C. What’s up? D. Is that so?
Our teachers often tell us we can’t be because no mistake is too small for us.
A. very careful B. careful
C. so careful D. too careless
my family his been to Hainan, so all of us dream of a visit there.
A. both; and; has B. not only; but also; has
C. either; or; have D. neither; nor; have
There is so much noise around his flat that he feels mad.
A. as much as B. as many as
C. as good as D. as soon as
