[1] One out of many important things for the whole family to do is to have dinner together. Researchers began reporting the benefits of family dinner about a decade ago, focusing mainly on how it affects children. Studies show that those families who eat dinner at least 3 or 4 times a week together, benefit in many ways.
[2] Eating together helps families achieve open communication and build stronger and healthier relationships. Children have better grades at school and are better adjusted as teens and adults, and the entire family enjoys healthier nutrition. For many families, eating dinner together proves to be a good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to raise healthier children. It is also a great time to share the events of the day, discuss news and ideas and just be together and enjoy each other's company.
[3] During dinner time parents have better opportunity to show that they are the prior to their children. Sitting at the same table and sharing meals is where and when parents can find out more about their children's school performance, daily activities and attitudes toward life. When parents have all this information they can better direct their kids toward positive things in life. They also have better chance to reduce the possibility that children will get involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.
[4] However, family researchers say that the benefits of family dinner by no means can be considered as automatic. Parents can sit down to dinner with their kids every day and achieve nothing. ______ if there is too much arguing going on, if there is no meaningful conversation or, what is even worse, if there is just plain silence during gathering.
【小題1】What is the main idea of the text? (no more than 8 words)
【小題2】List two benefits that parents can get by having dinner together with children.(no more than 15words).
【小題3】Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words (no more than 8 words).
【小題4】What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 12 words)
【小題5】What does the word “it” (line 3, paragraph 1) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)


【小題1】Families benefit from eating together./Having dinner together is beneficial to families.
【小題2】Knowing more about their building stronger and healthier relationships with their children; getting chance to show that they are prior to their children.
【小題3】No family dinners can benefit./ Family dinner may not benefit.
【小題4】Their children’s school performance, daily activities and attitudes towards life.
【小題5】Family dinner.

解析試題分析：你經(jīng)常參與家庭聚餐嗎？家庭聚餐對(duì)于每個(gè)家人都有很大的意義，但也要看看操作如何，運(yùn)作不好也會(huì)帶來意想不到的壞影響。
【小題1】根據(jù)第一段One out of many important things for the whole family to do is to have dinner together.
可以得出本文的主要內(nèi)容即答案為：Families benefit from eating together./Having dinner together is beneficial to families.
【小題2】根據(jù)第二、三段文章列出了許多家庭聚餐的好處，如：helps families achieve open communication and build stronger and healthier relationships.及For many families, eating dinner together proves to be a good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to raise healthier children.選擇兩處寫出答案： Knowing more about their building stronger and healthier relationships with their children;  getting chance to show that they are prior to their children.
【小題3】根據(jù)后面提出了一系列的if條件，而且都是不好的假設(shè)，所以導(dǎo)致的結(jié)果就是橫線上要填的內(nèi)容即：Family dinner may not benefit.
【小題4】根據(jù)第三段可以直接寫出答案Their children’s school performance, daily activities and attitudes towards life.
【小題5】it所代指的內(nèi)容是前面提到的單數(shù)名詞或不可數(shù)名詞，向前很容易找到family dinner，即答案�？键c(diǎn)：考查閱讀之后自己組織語言來回答問題

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