Household chores like cooking and sewing always end up 【小题1】 the bottom of many of our to-do lists. Some people even think that they should 【小题2】 (take)care of by our parents. However, these life skills are 【小题3】 (extreme) important and should be taught as part of labor education. On June 3, the Ministry of Education(MOE) issued a document illustrating the 【小题4】 (revise) curriculum for senior high schools across the country. According to the document, labor education is enlisted as a compulsory course for senior high school students at all levels.

Labor education,【小题5】 is also called education on the hardworking spirit,【小题6】 (range)from household chores to on-campus labor and community volunteer services. “Labor education must be strengthened with the aim to cultivate 【小题7】 right view of the world, life and values and develop an interest in doing labor,” said Vice-Minister- of Education Zheng Fuzhi.

According to China Youth Daily, the labor course will take six 【小题8】 (credit)— the same as foreign language and physics. The MOE also asks schools 【小题9】 (ensure)40 hours of voluntary service, as a part of labor education, during the full three school years. “The 【小题10】 (early) you started, the better … A roll-up-your-sleeves-and-pitch-in mindset can get you ahead in the workplace,” Lythcott Haims said.

It was 【小题1】(get)dark when I 【小题2】(get)home.It was cold and I 【小题3】(wear)a coat.I walked up to the door and 【小题4】(put)my hand into my pocket to take out the key，but I couldn’t find it.I suddenly 【小题5】(remember)that I 【小题6】(leave)it on my desk in the office.It really didn’t make any difference.I knew my wife 【小题7】(be)at home and the children must have come back from school by then，so I   【小题8】(knock)at the door.There was no answer.I 【小题9】(continue)knocking at the door for sometime.I 【小题10】(get)angry.Then I remembered something the office boy 【小题11】(tell )me at noon.He said that my wife 【小题12】(phone)saying that she 【小题13】 (go)shopping in the afternoon with the children.It seemed that nothing 【小题14】(can do)and I 【小题15】(shut)out of my house.

Nowadays, housework is getting much easier than it has ever been. There 【小题1】 (be) plenty of helpful machinery equipment in most people's families. Most machines are powered by electricity.

The first sewing machines in the 1800s 【小题2】 (operate) by a person turning a wheel by hand, or 【小题3】 (push) a foot-pedal up and down, while modern sewing machines have electric motors to do the work. A washing machine is a 【小题4】 (simply) electrical device. People had spent hours washing their clothes by hand 【小题5】 they had washing machines. Now it takes just a few minutes to fill the machine and set the right program. It works by mixing dirty clothes 【小题6】 soapy water. During the operation, 【小题7】 drum turns to slosh (搅动) the clothes in the water, and then clean water washes away the soap and dirt. Eventually, the machine's drum spins very fast to help dry clothes. A microwave oven cooks food very quickly by sending invisible 【小题8】 (wave) of energy, called microwaves, into the food. This makes the watery parts of the food vibrate and get hot.

【小题9】 appeals to people is that the machines can help save more time and make people's life easier. It means that people have more time 【小题10】 (work) or relax.