Question

Since it was founded a year ago, the babysitting pool has become increasingly popular in the United States. More and more mothers have joined it and have benefited from it. What attracts them most is the idea that you pay your babysitter not in cash, but in paper cards. When you join the babysitting pool, you are given thirty cards, which are worth 30-minute babysitting time each. For each half an hour while you are gone, the babysitter gets paid one card.

There are rules regulating this service. You should not watch more than three kids at a time including your own. On big holidays, such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, the babysitter should be paid twice as much, which means two cards for every half an hour. When you leave the babysitting pool, you should return all the cards. If you are out of cards, you cannot use money instead. You should have to baby-sit for others to earn enough cards so that you will have them handy when you yourself need a babysitter.
Many mothers think highly of this service. It keeps children in constant touch with one another, and makes life easier for the mothers. Since in most cases, the babysitter is the mother who watches other kids at her own home, it is still possible for her to do her own things while the kids play with each other. In fact most mother babysitters find that their own kids are less of a monster and easier to watch when they are around other playmates. Moreover, since the babysitting pool service does not involve money, it will not be a financial loss to the family.

In the past year, the babysitting pool has helped so many mothers with their work that they all think that it is indeed a good community service worth keeping.

Answer 1

1.The Babysitting Pool

2.30 minutes

3.Rules

4.paid twice / double pay

5.Babysitting for others

6.Advantages

7.To children

8.Making life easier

9.No financial loss

10.Conclusion

【解析】

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1.Since it was founded a year ago, the babysitting pool has become increasingly popular”和最后一段“In the past year, the babysitting pool has helped”及第二三兩段的首句可知，文章主要講的是the babysitting pool這項(xiàng)服務(wù)，故填The Babysitting Pool。

2.thirty cards, which are worth 30-minute babysitting time each”可知，每張卡相當(dāng)于三十分鐘照看嬰兒的時(shí)間，故填30 minutes。

3.There are rules regulating this service. You should not watch more than three kids at a time...”可知，第二段講的是相關(guān)的規(guī)則，故填Rules。

4.On big holidays,...the babysitter should be paid twice as much”可知，在重大的節(jié)日，父母需要支付雙倍的費(fèi)用，即每三十分鐘需要兩張卡片，故填paid twice / double pay。

5.You should have to baby-sit for others to earn enough cards”可知，父母應(yīng)該幫他人照看孩子來(lái)獲得足夠的卡片，注意與上面幾條保持一致，都用動(dòng)名詞形式，故填Babysitting for others。

6. It keeps children in constant touch with one another, and makes life easier for the mothers.”可知，這里講的是這項(xiàng)服務(wù)的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，孩子可以一直有人照看，媽媽們的生活也能變得輕松一些，故填A(yù)dvantages。

7.t keeps children in constant touch...makes life easier for the mothers... it will not be a financial loss to the family”可知，本段主要提到了三個(gè)優(yōu)點(diǎn)，分別是對(duì)孩子本身、孩子?jì)寢尯图彝��?lái)說(shuō)的，而且根據(jù)“To mothers...To the family”可確定填To children，故填To children。

8.and makes life easier for the mothers”可知，這項(xiàng)服務(wù)讓媽媽們的生活變得輕松，故填Making life easier。

9.it will not be a financial loss to the family”可知，對(duì)家庭來(lái)說(shuō)沒(méi)有金錢(qián)上的損失，故填No financial loss。

10.it is indeed a good community service worth keeping”可知，這是一項(xiàng)值得繼續(xù)開(kāi)展下去的社區(qū)服務(wù)，這是對(duì)文章的總結(jié)，故填Conclusion。

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