Imagine this: your parents go away on business, but you have to stay at home alone. Would life be as easy as when your parents are around? Would it be a perfect holiday for you?

“I can fill an empty stomach with tomato and egg soup, but that’s all. I think many of my classmates are the same. We wouldn’t know what to do, or how to look after ourselves,” said Zheng Chenyu.“And I’d forget something important. I’d probably watch television and burn the soup.” “The moment I leave home, I’ll learn to cook. But now parents do almost everything for us. We’re very lazy,” she said.

Most teenagers have only time for their homework. (1)They don’t learn any life skills until they go to college.

However, Sima Yige doesn’t think so. “I think I’d be all right. I wouldn’t just eat sandwiches or fruit. I know how to cook some simple dishes because my mum showed me,” the 13-year-old boy said. In his opinion, many teenagers (2)过分依赖 their parents, and there is much more to learn than cooking, like “tidying up your room or even dressing yourself properly”.

For most teenagers, it wouldn’t be a holiday at all.

任务一：完成句子。
【小题1】Zheng Chenyu thinks now teenagers are lazy because ________________.
【小题2】Zheng Chenyu will learn to cook as soon as ________________.
任务二：英汉互译。
【小题3】将(1)处的画线句子译成汉语：
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【小题4】将(2)处的“过分依赖”译成英文：
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任务三： 回答问题.
【小题5】Would life be as easy for teenagers living alone as when their parents are around?
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