It is difficult for the parents of every family to teach their children to be responsible (有责任的) for housework.

    The Shatian School in Shanghai is making its students do housework for their parents. The third graders(三年级学生) must learn how to cook and clean, sixth graders do the laundry(洗衣服) and seventh and eighth graders cook balanced meals with 15 yuan.

    Many parents think it's a good way for children to try housework but they don't know how to do it at home. With the following ideas, you really can get your children to help at home.

    If you want to make your children think that they can do everything quite right, please don't always scold(批评) if them but give them lots of praise at home. Talk more about what they did right, not about what they didn't do. If your child finishes some difficult work, give him or her a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad as a reward.

Last summer,Cathy's whole family went to New York City for their summer vacation. They stayed there for two weeks.

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{#blank#}5{#/blank#} On the island, they spent most of their time swimming sunbathing and playing on the beach. They all had a good time.

On a Friday night, a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the subway station. He played such great music that people slowed down to l{#blank#}1{#/blank#} and put some money into his hat. 

The next day, the violinist came to the entrance again. He put down his hat as usual. Beside the hat was a piece of paper with some w{#blank#}2{#/blank#} on it. It said, "A George Sang has put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Welcome to claim (认领) it. " Soon the people were all attracted by the words and wondered w{#blank#}3{#/blank#} it could be. After a while a man rushed through the crowd, took the violinist's shoulders and said, "I knew you would certainly come here. " The violinist asked, "Did you l{#blank#}4{#/blank#} anything?" "Lottery (彩票). " The violinist took out a lottery ticket with Sang's name on it. Sang took it and danced happily. 

Sang was an office worker. He bought the lottery and w{#blank#}5{#/blank#} a prize of ＄500, 000. But when he gave ＄50 to the violinist for his wonderful music, the lottery ticket was thrown in, too. The violinist was a college student. That morning, he was going to fly to Vienna for high-education. However, when he f{#blank#}6{#/blank#} the ticket, he put off the flight and went back to the entrance. 

Later someone asked the violinist why he didn't take the lottery ticket to pay for his high education. He said, "Although I don't have much money, I live h{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. If I lose honesty, I won't be happy forever. "

Miss White is a teacher. Her home is near her school. So she walks there in the morning. All her students are very small. It's a cold and windy morning. Miss White walks to school as usual. The cold wind goes into her eyes and big tears（眼泪） come out of her eyes. She gets to school, opens the door and goes into the classroom. It's nice and warm there and she is happy. But then a small boy looks at her, then puts his arms round her and says, "Don't cry, Miss. School isn't very bad. "

As a child，I got angry quite easily and was not good at communicating with others. 

I still remember it was an early autumn. Some 1 started to turn yellow and the weather became cool. One day，as I was getting ready for school，my mother carelessly handed me my father's vest（背心）2 . At that time，I was getting to have a 3 size than my father，so when I put on the vest，I felt as if I wasn't able to breathe!I realized that it was a small mistake which was 4 by my mother，but somehow the breathless feeling was so strong that it made me very angry. My mother said sorry with a smile，but I shouted at her 5 thinking much. I got it off my body so wildly that I made a hole in it. I put on my own vest and rushed out of the house6 my mother could stop me. 

Later，my mother shared her bad feelings with my father，"See what your son has done. "Instead of saying he would scold（责备），my father 7 asked my mother to mend the vest. 

Later when my mother told me about my father's response（反应），I felt terribly sorry for my bad behaviour. My father's gentle kindness taught me a lesson which I would 8 forget. 

On that day，I decided not to let anger9 me any longer. Of course，there are times when I am angry. However，whenever that happens10 . It always reminds me to think about others' feelings when I get angry. 

Once upon a time, there lived a man by himself. He was blind, but he always took a candle with him whenever he went out at night.

One night when he came home after having dinner outside, he met a group of young men. They saw the blind man taking a candle, so they made fun of him. One of them asked, "Hey, man! You are blind and can't see anything! Why do you take the candle with you then?"

The blind man said, "Yes, I am blind and I can't see anything, but the candle is for the people like you who can see. They can see me coming and won't knock into me. That is why I take a candle." The young men felt ashamed(羞愧的) and said sorry to the blind man.

We should think before judging(评价) others. Always be polite to others and learn to care about other people's feelings.