Homework is an (0) …B… part of school life in most countries around the world. However, there is still considerable debate among teachers about (1) …… homework has a significant educational value. On the one side are those who (2) …… that it takes too much time away from other (3) …… useful activities. On the other are those who see homework as reinforcing school lessons so that concepts will not be forgotten. (4) …… is often neglected in this debate is the role of parental involvement and (5) …… or not the child’s home provides support for effective homework. Middle-class families regularly spend time helping with homework by providing facilities and being interested. These are the same facilities that can (6) …… other educational experiences like overseas holidays and weekend museum visits. Parents in low-income families often don’t have the time to make homework a priority or aren’t able to afford a computer or additional textbooks. (7) …… money they have goes on the basic necessities of life – accommodation, food, clothing and heating. Their children are more (8) …… to spend weekends doing part-time jobs or playing in the street. However, the (9) …… that only middle-class parents support their children’s education is quite obviously wrong. Not (10) …… well-to-do parents give the support they should, and some parents living in the most impoverished circumstances (11) …… find the time and energy to involve themselves in their children’s homework. In general, (12) …… the family’s economic status is a major factor in determining the value of homework.

My brother's day. My brother usually gets up at seven  o'clock.Then he does his morning exercise, puts his clothes  on and has breakfast. After breakfast at about 8 a.m. he goes to the kindergarten. In the kindergarten, other children and he always play different interesting games, listen fairy-tales, sing, dance and make fun) My brother likes to spend his time in the kindergarten. At 7 p.m my brother comes home. When everybody of our family  are at home we have supper,My little brother likes to eat chicken and potatoes.In the evening he watches TV and cartoons. At 9 p.m he goes to bed

In the summer of 1869, John Wesley Powell set out with ten companions and four boats A) __1 . on one of the greatest adventures of all time . Powell and his men planned to travel hundreds of miles through unknown parts of the western United States. Powell was a naturalist, explorer, and former army officer. Although his right arm had been amputated above the elbow B)__4. as a result of a war injury _ , he never turned away from danger. In August, after travelling through many canyons, the group reached the Grand Canyon. It often rained in torrents and cloudbursts. At midday the sun poured down C) _5. as if it would fry them down _ . More than half the party was without hats and not one of them had an entire suit of clothes. They sat up all night on the rocks, shivering, and were more exhausted by the night’s discomfort than by the day’s heat and toil. They guarded their precious flour supply D)_7. as if it had been sacks of gold _ , keeping it always in watertight compartments and dividing it equally among the four boats – so that if one of the boats cracked up only a fourth of it would be lost. Mile after mile, day after day, the vast gorge of the Colorado twisted on through the earth, E)__3. as if its waters would roar for eternity _ . They had seen a few ancient ruins, but no sign that any living Indians ever came down to the river. Suddenly, with their flour almost gone, they saw a sight F)_2 . they could scarcely believe _ . On the bank they found a garden planted with corn and squash.