What can you do for yourself when you are at home alone (独自)? Nothing? How are you then? Do you _________ it’s great?

Tom says _________. “I can do my favorite things, like watching TV and _________ computer games. But who cook the _________ for me?” The 13-year-old boy says, “I can have instant noodles (方便面), but they are not healthy. I think many of my classmates are the _________. Our _________ do all the things for us at home. So we can’t look after ourselves well.”

Students _________ to learn some life skills (生活技能). Making chicken is difficult for you, but tomato and egg soup (汤) is _________. Sweaters are big for you to wash, _________ socks are small. You can’t tidy the big room. How about learning to do many small _________?

The winter holiday is a good time to start. Come on!

Napoga Gurigo，a 12-year-old girl，lives in a village in Ghana. It is_______for her family to get clean drinking water. The nearest place to get water is a muddy （混浊的） water hole half a kilometer away from her_______Animals and villagers use it alike. Each morning, Napoga leaves home at half past five to collect water for her family. Sometimes it _____ a few hours to get enough water. Napoga has no time to go to school for learning. In the neighboring areas, many boys and girls_______Napoga. They can't keep strong and_______just because they have not enough drinking water.

In fact, 70% of Earth's surface is water. But most of_______is sea water. We can't use salty water in our daily life. Fresh water is what we_______drink, take showers and cook food. And fresh water covers only 1 percent of Earth's surface. In some areas people try to make deep wells （水井） to get water from_______But there still______enough for farming. Scientists say that_______30 years, more people in the world will face all kinds of water problems than now. So we must do something to take care of our water resources (资源).