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[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 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 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)
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【小題2】What is the author’s attitude to family dinner?（no more than 2 words）
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【小題3】Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 8 words)
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【小題4】What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 12 words)
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【小題5】What does the word underlined in Para. 3 refer to.(No more than 2 words)?
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Answer 1

【小題1】Families benefit from eating together./Having dinner together is beneficial to families.
【小題2】Favorable /Supportive
【小題3】No family dinner can benefit./Family dinner may not benefit.
【小題4】their children’s school performance, daily activities and attitudes toward life
【小題5】parents

解析【小題1】文章是篇議論文，論點是第一段的Studies show that those families who eat dinner at least 3 or 4 times a week together, benefit in many ways。由此可概括本題答案。
【小題2】文章用大的篇幅論述了家人一起吃飯的好處，由此可看出作者的態度是支持的。
【小題3】本段說的是家庭聚餐的不利之處。
【小題4】結合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可知答案。
【小題5】結合后面的their kids可知答案。