十、（2026·盐城市盐都区期中）首字母填空。（10分）
Do you often help with chores at home? You may think chores are t 1 so you don't want to do them. But if someone t 2 you that doing chores is good for your brain, will you like to do them then?
A study finds that children who j 3 in chores show better academic performance(学业表现). They have better problem-solving skills too.
A team at La Trobe University(大学) does the study. They ask more than 200 parents. These parents have c 4 aged 5 to 13. They ask the parents about how many chores their children do e 5 day and their executive function. Executive function means someone's ability(能力) to plan, stay on a task(任务), do different tasks at the s 6 time and remember instructions. The results show that children who often do chores have better executive function.
When it comes to the chores, 70% of girls make their own beds, but only 50% of boys do. However, 66% of boys e 7 the rubbish bin but only 43% of girls do.
The study also finds that cooking and gardening may be h 8. Ms Deanna Tepper, who leads the study, says, “Children who often cook a family meal or look a 9 the garden also do better at school and solving problems.”
Without doubt, the findings(发现) of this study are e 10 for parents. But what about you?

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十一、(2026·南通市如皋期末)阅读表达。(5分)
As students, we may have many dreams. The dreams can be very big, like becoming Superman, or they can be very small, like making birthday cakes by ourselves. Also, we may just want to become one of the best students in our class. If we have a dream, what do we do with it? What should we do to make our dreams come true?
Follow Your Heart is a book written by the Australian writer Andrew Matthews. It tells us that making our dreams come true is life’s biggest challenge.
“You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a star. These ideas stop you from getting your dream,” the book says.
In fact, everyone can make his or her dream come true. The first important thing we must do is to know what our dreams are.
Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling ourselves what we want. Do this step by step and our dreams will come true faster. A big dream is made up of many small dreams.
Never give up our dreams. There will be difficulties on the road. But the biggest problem is that we need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of(代替) watching TV will help us get higher exam scores. Saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means we can buy a new book. When we get closer to our dreams, they may change a little. This is good because we have the chance to learn something more useful.
1. What can our dreams be like according to the passage?

2. Who wrote the book Follow Your Heart?

3. What is the first important thing to do to make our dreams come true?

4. Why is it good that our dreams may change a little when we get closer to them?

5. 新考法 开放性设问 What is your dream? How can you make it come true?