Starting from the coming fall term, students in primary and middle schools will have at least one lesson every week to learn simple but necessary housework skills such as cleaning and cooking.

Labor(劳动) lessons cover mainly housework chores, productive labor, and services. The lessons are good for students’ character.

Primary school students in first and second grades need to do simple but necessary cleaning, wash vegetables and peel fruit, and learn to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals. Third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their underwear, socks and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes. Fifth and sixth graders should know the skills of cooking two or three common dishes. For middle school students, they are encouraged to cook three or four dishes by themselves, learn how to make one or two kinds of traditional handicrafts, and experience one or two types of industrial labor, new technologies, modern service or volunteer work.

People welcome such lessons and say it’s necessary to teach young students housework skills. Yang Jianping, a mother of a first grader in Beijing, says she supports teaching students such lessons, because they can help students learn some necessary labor skills. Her son’s head teacher asks the students to clean the classrooms. She likes it very much.

1.What can we know about the labor lessons?

A They will start from this summer term.

B Students will have one labor lesson a day.

C They are bad for students’ study.

D They help students develop their character.

解析：选D。D 细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句“The lessons are good for students’ character.”可知，劳动课程对学生的性格培养有好处。故选D。

2.Who will learn volunteer work at school?

A A seventh grade student.

B A sixth grade student.

C A third grade student.

D A second grade student.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句“For middle school students, they are encouraged to...modern service or volunteer work.”可知，该课程鼓励中学生体验志愿工作。故选A。

3.What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A How the labor lessons develop.

B What students learn in labor classes.

C Why teachers should teach about labor.

D How people think about labor lessons.

解析：选B。B 段落大意题。根据第三段可知，该段主要讲述了各年级需要在劳动课上学会的技能。故选B。

4.What does the underlined word “supports” mean?

A Worries about.

B Agrees with.

C Looks after.

D Laughs at.

解析：选B。B 词义猜测题。根据划线部分所在句子前一句的“People welcome such lessons and say it’s necessary to teach young students housework skills.”以及后面的“because they can help students learn some necessary labor skills.”，可知这位母亲认为劳动课程很有必要，可以让学生学习生活中必要的劳动技能，即她支持这个课程。故选B。

5.We can read the passage in a magazine about _________.

A medicine

B science

C education

D environment

解析：选C。C 推理判断题。根据全文内容可知，本文内容与学校教育有关。故选C。