It seems that everywhere around the world, people are spending more time at work       less time with their families and friends. People are      than ever before!
In the past in many countries , the father worked and the mother stayed home ,took       of the children ,and did the food shopping, cooking and cleaning.  At present , in most of the families , parents need work on weekdays, so they  have to do the shopping, cooking and cleaning in their free time. Parents don’t have as much time with their    , however, they often had time in the past. There are also many single-parent（单亲的）families .In these families ,the single parents has to do everything.
These days ,many children come home        school to an empty apartment or house .A lot of children spend many hours      day in front of the television .Even the families are together, it is common for families members to do things by themselves. For example, they     programs on separate TVs in different rooms, they use the Internet, they       friends on the telephone, and they do other individual by themselves.
Isn’t it strange? Thanks to technology（科技）, people are able to communicate so      with people far away, but sometimes they don’t communicate with people their own homes.