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Austin Yowler,13,has football practice Tuesday through Thursday.His brother Kendall,8,
has soccer practice Tuesday and Friday.Both boys play their games on weekends,which
means calling time out for family dinners can be difficult for the Yowler family of Burlington.
They try to squeeze them in two to three times a week.
"Today,everybody lives such busy lives,and dinner time is just a good time to catch up
with what everybody's doing," says the boys' father,David Yowler.
"It's really important," his wife,Suzanne,says,"We always did it when I was a kid.You
never know what kids might tell us.They are not very ready to give information at this age,
so it's nice to get little interesting things once in a while."
Indeed,the family dinner might be more important than many people realize."Surveys
have found that the more often children have dinners with their parents,the less likely they
are to smoke,drink or use drugs,and that parental engagement fostered around the dinner
table is one of the most powerful tools to help parents raise healthy,drugfree children," says
a report.
Austin Yowler,an eighthgrader,says,"it's nice to just sit down with everybody once in a
while." But he adds that in the evenings he doesn't have football,"I just like to go and hang
out with my friends.Having to come home in the middle of that is just kind of..." His facial
expression finishes the thought.
It's the conversations happening at the table-not the food being eaten-that is key,the
report says.Dinner time is the best time to strengthen family ties and learn what's going on
in each other's lives.
"I know family dinners are important,so I tell everyone no texting,no TV and no video
games," says Deanna Eppers of Milford,whose three children are in college,high school and
sixth grade.It's OK,though,for a mom to "call" the kids to the table by texting a message.
"Otherwise," she says,"they say they don't hear me."
1 ．The underlined word "they" may refer to ________.
A．busy lives
B．games
C．family dinners
D．kids
2．Why is a family dinner important?
A．Because the family can learn about each other's life.
B．Because children can enjoy delicious food at this time.
C．Because parents can teach children table manners.
D．Because children needn't do extra activities after school.
3．It can be inferred that Austin's expression was ________.
A．a pleasure
B．a pain
C．a joke
D．a duty
4．Deanna called kids to dinner table by texting a message because________.
A．she couldn't shout at the top of her voice
B．texting a message is a fashionable thing
C．sometimes the kids pretended not to hear her
D．the children may forget it even if she called them
5．The passage is mainly about ________.
A．kids like to eat family dinners
B．kids are too busy to eat dinners
C．kids are unwilling to eat at home
D．kids need those family dinners
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