The “left­behind” children (留守儿童) are children whose parents are working in cities far away from them. A program _________ On the Way to School did a research (调查) among 2,000 children living in poor areas. The research showed that 15.1% of the children can’t see their _________ in a whole year, even during the Spring Festival. About 8.9 million children could talk with their parents on the phone only once or twice a year. And about 15.2 million children could get phone calls from _________ parents every three months.

Yang Hai lives in a(n) _________ with his grandparents. His parents work in Fuzhou, a city thousands of kilometers away from his village. His grandparents love him and _________ him well. But he said he still _________ his parents.

Now more people in the country _________ to work in cities and leave their children at home. The government (政府) is trying to do _________ to protect the children at home and free (消除) their parents’ _________ about their children. “The left­behind children can’t be with their parents very often, ____________ we should give them more care and love,” said one official (官员).

Your parents go to work and you are at home alone (独自). Do you _________ it’s great?

Cao Fan says _________ “I can do my favorite things, like watching TV and _________ computer games. But who cooks the _________ for me?” the fourteen-year-old boy says. “I can have instant noodles (方便面), but that’s not so good. I think many _________ my classmates are the same. Our _________ do all the things for us at home.”

Students need to _________ some life skills (生活技能). Making chicken is _________ for you, but tomato and egg is easy. Sweaters are big for you to wash, _________ socks and T- shirts are small. You can’t clean the big house. So, how about your room? You see, there are lots of __________ we can learn to do.

Come on! And try to learn to do something during the next summer vacation!

Many things have changed, and so has the homework.

When doing his math homework, Lu Lufei came across a problem. He couldn’t _______ it out. So he took out _______ cellphone, opened a special App and searched for the problem. The _______ soon appeared on the screen. Nowadays, many _______ do homework with the help of the Internet like Lu. They search for information online, use Apps or _______ through social networks like QQ and WeChat. “It’s convenient. You don’t have to _______ for a long time or pay for a tutor,” Lu said. “You also learn by seeing _______ others work them out.” “It also improves students’ abilities,” said Wang Shiying. “And it’s especially true for _______ types of homework.”

Wang’s Chinese teacher often asks students to give lectures(演讲)on great authors. When it comes to Wang’s turn, she usually searches online, picks out certain stories and makes PowerPoint presentations. And she _______ does a good job.

However, this trend(趋势)also ________ problems. Some students just copy the answers online ________ thinking. They become lazy. Homework is an important exercise for us to practise what we ________ from school. However, a lot of students like to use “Little ape” or Zuoye Help to search answers of their homework. It is no good for themselves. When you are copying work from ________, you can’t learn anything from it. You will forget to tell you and teach you, and when your homework is found similar with other students after you hand over, it shamed both for you and ________.

So, don’t copy the answers online. Trust ________, you can do any homework by yourself and gain from it.