II. Fill in each gap with one suitable word There are four people in my family: my father, my mother, my younger sister (1)me. My
father is a doctor. My father has a full-time job in a big company. (2) both of them are
busy (3)their work, my parents always try their best to be with their (4) as
much as possible and join hands to give us a nice house and a happy home.
Every morning we often get up early to have (5) together before my parents go to
work and we go to school. My mother is a considerate and caring woman. She is always the
(6) one to get up in the morning to prepare breakfast for all of us. After work she
(7) to the market and hurries home, then my father and I help her to cook meals. We
talk merrily (8) the meals and feel happy together. At weekends we often have dinner
out or sometimes we go on a picnic.
My younger sister and I always help mom with the housework: cleaning the house,
(9) the dishes, or cooking. Both of us want to give my parents the best things we can
do and we all try to study to (10) our parents.
I think my home is a place where we can share our happiness and sadness

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.