Should teenagers help parents do chores? I think so. Most of the teenagers are the only child in their own family. Parents love them so much 【小题1】 they don’t want them to do chores. I think this is 【小题2】 (real) bad for the teenagers. The following is a real story.

My next door neighbor has a daughter 【小题3】 (call) Li Ting. Li Ting is the only child in the family. Her parents never let her do 【小题4】 (some) chores. Every day she only 【小题5】 (get) up, has meals, goes to school, comes home, does her homework and goes to bed. She doesn’t know how to do chores at all. One day, her father was seriously ill and 【小题6】 (have) an operation (手术) in a hospital. Her mother had to take 【小题7】 of him in the hospital and couldn’t cook the meals for Li Ting for the 【小题8】 /həʊl/ week. As you can imagine, Li Ting was 【小题9】 great trouble and often felt hungry. She had to eat instant noodles for three meals every day. 【小题10】 funny!

From the story we know that it’s very important for children to learn to do chores.

Morshed lives in Jordan. He loves animals a lot and his 【小题1】 animal is dogs. He 【小题2】 much money every month buying food for dogs.

There are many dogs on the streets in Jordan. They are often dirty and look scary. Most people are 【小题3】 of them. Morshed wants to help these dogs. He brings food for the dogs every day. He also takes 【小题4】 and makes videos of the dogs. It takes Morshed 【小题5】 of time to make these videos. But Morshed 【小题6】 feels tired. He is happy that he can help the dogs.

Morshed shares videos of dogs on Tik Tok. Why does Morshed put 【小题7】 online? 【小题8】 he wants people to know that dogs are man's good friends. “I want people to make friends with animals. I hope people can be friendly 【小题9】 them. I hope they will help these dogs live a better 【小题10】 too” Morshed says. The dog lover also hopes that one day he can build a home for these dogs.

What will happen if a person doesn’t get enough sleep? Randy Gardner, 【小题1】 high school student in the United States, wanted to find out the answer. With doctors watching him 【小题2】 (careful), Gardner didn’t sleep for 264 hours and 12 minutes.

What effect (影响) did it have on Gardner? 【小题3】 Gardner didn’t sleep for 24 hours, he began having problems reading and watching TV. On the third day, it was difficult for him to do things 【小题4】 his hands. On the fourth day, Gardner imagined he was a famous football player. Over the next few 【小题5】 (day), Gardner couldn’t talk well and people couldn’t understand 【小题6】 (he). On the eleventh day, Gardner couldn’t pass a counting test. In the middle of the test, he even stopped 【小题7】 (count). He couldn’t remember what he was doing.

When Gardner stopped the experiment, he fell asleep quickly 【小题8】 slept for 14 hours and 45 minutes. On the 【小题9】 (two) night he slept for twelve hours, on the third night he slept for ten and a half hours, and by the fourth night, he became normal (正常的).

Later, Gardner got better quickly, but scientists believed that his experiment was 【小题10】 (danger). They advised people not to do the same experiment.