Most American families are smaller than those in other countries. Usually there is one or two parents and one or two children in each American family.

Children in the USA will leave their parents when they grow up. They want to find better jobs,so they usually live far away from their parents. They often write to their parents or call them. And they go to visit their parents during their holidays.

Parents will ask their children to do some work around their house. In many families,children will get money for doing some housework so that they can learn to make money for their own. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs.Americans think that for young people it is important to decide on their lives by themselves.

Many people go to school for an education. They learn languages,history,geography,physics,chemistry and math. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can make a living. School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher,no matter how much he knows,cannot teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to learn,how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some facts or formulas(公式). It is actually quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists,such as Einstein,Newton and Galileo,didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so successful that they invented so many things for mankind.

The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not expressed at school. They worked hard all their lives,wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.

My parents do 10 hours'housework a week. My mother does most of the

housework,like cooking and washing. My father can only fold the clothes,sweep the

floor and take out the trash.He really needs to learn how to do housework.Linda,14

My mother and my father each do 50%of the housework.My mother does the

washing and cleans the living room.My father makes the bed and drives me to

school.Celina,13

My father doesn't do a lot but he tries to help.He hangs up the clothes after my

mother does the washing and my mother is happy that he always gives her a hand.

Bill,1 5

My mother is a doctor. She is busy with her work every day,so she has little time to

do housework. In fact she isn't good at doing housework. So my father has to do

most of it. Sometimes my grandmother comes to help. Paul ,16

My name is Li Lan. I am a Chinese girl. I want to be a computer programmer. I am going to study computer science. I am going to work and live in Hangzhou. Hangzhou is a beautiful city. I love it very much. I have three good friends.They are Wang Jun,Li Ming and LiuTong. Wang Jun wants to be a soccer player.How is he going to do that?He is going to play soccer every day. When is he going to start?He is going to start next month. Where is he going to work?He is going to work in Guangzhou. He wants to join a famous soccer team. Li Ming wants to be a cook. He wants to make delicious food himself. How is he going to do that?He is going to go to a cooking school in Beijing. What does LiuTong want to be?He wants

to be an engineer. How is he going to do that?He is going to study math really hard.He likes it and he is good at it. Where is he going to live when he grow up?He is going to live in Beijing.