Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}their parents. They don't know how to do housework. Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big p{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Joy is 15 years old. One day, her parents went away on b {#blank#}3{#/blank#} , so she had to stay at home a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. At first she thought she would be happy because her parents weren't in. She could do a{#blank#}5{#/blank#} that she liked. But it was six o'clock in the afternoon, she felt h{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. “Oh, it's time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to h {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn't know how to cook. At that moment, she m{#blank#}8{#/blank#}her parents very much F{#blank#}9{#/blank#}she could only go to the supermarket and bought some food to eat.

Many of teenagers are the same as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life s{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves. They shouldn't depend too much on their parents.

    My name is Anna King and I come from a small town called Madison in Wyoming in the center of the USA. When I was twenty, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to the east coast (东海岸), to a town just south of New York, and started a(n){#blank#}2{#/blank#} in a big store. One day, a young man with short brown hair came to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the store. He looked at {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"

    "No," I said. "But do you mean Michelle Golden from Madison?" He said yes. I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} him that I was at the same school with Michelle. She wasn't much older than me and people often said that we {#blank#}6{#/blank#}like each other. Then the young man told me that Michelle and he were in the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} history class at university (大学).

      Six months later, I got a better job with another big {#blank#}8{#/blank#}and moved to the west (西部的) coast to work in San Francisco. One day on my way home from work, a young man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} short brown hair saw me in the street and asked, "Are you Michelle Golden?"

    "No," I answered. "You asked me that when we {#blank#}10{#/blank#}in a store thousands of (数以千计的) kilometers away, near New York" Then both of us laughed.

    Hi, my name is Jeff Smith. Smith is my {#blank#}1{#/blank#} name. I have short curly hair.  I'm {#blank#}2{#/blank#} English boy. I'm fourteen {#blank#}3{#/blank#} old. I live in Shantou {#blank#}4{#/blank#} my father and mother. I like playing computer games and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} songs. My favorite color is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. I like green clothes. I study in Longhu Experimental Middle School, the best school in Shantou. I am in Class Eleven, Grade Seven. In my class, there {#blank#}7{#/blank#} thirty-two boys and thirty-three girls. Guo Runfeng and Wang Xuanhan are in Class Eleven with me. We are in the same {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. They are my good friends. They help me {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Chinese and I help them with English. My English teacher is Kelly Wu. She is a very good teacher. Her {#blank#}10{#/blank#} are very active. We all like her. And she likes us, too.