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[1]One 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 or 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.
1. What is the main idea of the text? (no more than 8 words)
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2. Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one? By having dinner together family
members can have free exchange of information and develop closer ties among them.
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3. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 8 words)
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4. What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 12 words)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese.
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