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It’s important to prepare for rainy days. Similarly, it’s important to save money. __ 1.___ Why? It’s because they’ve got used to spending all the money they make. Sometimes, the hardest thing about saving money is just getting started. Here are some tips to help you save money.
2. The first step in saving money is to know how much you’re spending. For one month, keep a record of everything you spend money on. Once you have your data, organize these numbers by category(类别) and get the total amount for each.
You can make a budget(预算). Now that you have a good idea of how much you spend in a month, what can you do now? 3.___ To plan your spending, you can build a budget. In this way, you can limit over-spending and make sure that you put money away for unexpected situations.
4. Doing so make it much easier to get started. Begin by deciding how long it will take to reach each goal. Some short-term goals include starting a fund to cover 6 months to a year of living costs and saving money for a vacation. Long-term saving goals are often several years or even decades away and can include saving for retirement and putting money away for a child’s college education.
Make saving money easier with automatic transfers (自动转帐). Automatic transfers to your savings account are very helpful. 5. By moving money out of your checking account, you’ll be less likely to spend money you plan to use for savings.
A. You can set savings goals.
B. You can record your costs.
C. You can plan your spending.
D. You can keep a record of what you do.
E. They can make saving money much easier.
F. However, some people find it hard to save money.
G. You can move money out of your savings account.
A middle-aged man with a long beard was caught by the police for bad behavior and property damage. The man, Bill Wild, checked into a hotel last night, telling the clerk he would pay cash in advance and would be staying for four nights. He then asked her where the nearest store was and she told him it was John-Johns.
Wild went to the store and bought three gallons of honey and four gallons of chocolate syrup (糖浆). The cashier asked him why he wanted these things and he replied, "I’m trying to become a sweeter person." The cashier smiled at the joke. Wild drove back to the hotel. He opened all bottles and poured them into the bathtub (浴缸). He added warm water to the mix. He tuned the radio to an opera music station, took off his clothes, jumped into the tub, and started singing loudly with the music.
Fifteen minutes later, the neighbor phoned the clerk complaining about the noise. The clerk knocked on Wild’s door, but he just kept singing. She phoned his room, but he didn’t answer. Then she called the police, who arrived quickly. They broke into the room. The floor was covered in water and the bathtub was full of chocolate and honey. "He seemed so nice and friendly. Who’d have thought he was a bathtub-singing nut?" said the clerk. The police said this was the third time that Wild had been arrested for this kind of behavior.
1.The man bought lots of honey and chocolate syrup to _______.
A. have a bath to make himself sweet
B. do some interesting tests
C. give people a surprise
D. make a sweet cake
2.What caused the clerk to call the police?
A. Wild bought honey and chocolate syrup.
B. Wild mixed the water with the things he bought.
C. Wild made too much noise and disturbed his neighbor.
D. Wild didn’t pay for the check.
3.We know from the passage that _________.
A. Wild didn’t pay for the honey and the chocolate syrup
B. the clerk didn’t know Wild had behaved like this before
C. Wild had been caught at least four times before
D. Wild walked to John-Johns to buy the honey
Where can you go to listen to important people talk about important subjects? BigThink.com is a new website that allows Internet users to discuss certain topics with world experts (专家). Subjects discussed on BigThink include the environment, music and questions about happiness and personal identity. The website has been called a YouTube for thinkers. Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins created BigThink.com. They said that people needed an international place to communicate with each other and discuss the important issues (话题) of our times. On the BigThink website, when you click on a subject, you will find a video of a person talking about his or her ideas. For example, you can listen to United States Senator Ted Kennedy talking about education and other things. Besides, you can read the comments and questions written by other visitors to the website. More than one hundred experts have expressed their ideas on the website. BigThink’s creators (创建者) started the website by first getting famous people to agree to be videoed. They began by interviewing several well-known professors from Harvard University. Then they used the names of these professors to gain the trust of others and get them to take part in the project. The website says BigThink belongs to everyone. Its motto (格言) is: "We are what you think." So, go online and start thinking big.
1.BigThink.com was created to ________.
A. discuss important people
B. show Internet users funny videos
C. introduce the latest IT knowledge and help Internet users solve problems
D. offer Internet users the chance to communicate with experts
2.If you visit BigThink.com, you can ________.
A. listen to your favorite music
B. chat with thinkers face to face online
C. communicate with people worldwide
D. get an online education
3.Why did the creators of BigThink.com start interviewing famous people?
A. To get their agreement to be videoed.
B. To gain their trust for the website.
C. To attract people’s attention to the website.
D. To use their names in discussions.
4.What’s the text mainly about?
A. How to set up one’s own website.
B. A brief introduction to BigThink.com.
C. What to do on BigThink.com.
D. The importance of sharing ideas with others.
Worldwide, the most people willing to return your mobile phone if you’ve lost it are to be found in Slovenia, and the fewest in Malaysia. This finding is the result of an interesting study in 32 of the world’s largest cities. Altogether, researchers "lost" 960 new mobile phones. They got back 654 of them, or 68 percent. Prague came in at number eight. There, 23 out of 30 people who were willing to return the mobile phone.
It wasn’t a traditional study. Two researchers carefully chose different places, such as areas with high crime (犯罪) and busy downtown shopping areas, to "lose" the phones. When one of the researchers dropped a phone, the other would keep watching from a distance. The honest finders tried their best to find the owner with the help of the address book in the phone. They were told why the study was done and asked why they acted the way they did.
It was found that the busier the place where the researchers dropped the phone, the greater the chance of it being returned. Another interesting finding was that women were generally more likely than men to return the phone. Researchers also found that most people still have a sense of honesty. "Crime is simply not good behaviour (行为)," said an expert. "People want to trust others, and want to be trusted."
1.Who would be most likely to return a phone, according to the study?
A. A man who found it in a park.
B. A woman who found it in a park.
C. A man who found it in a shopping center.
D. A woman who found it in a shopping center.
2.Which of the following are findings of the study?
a. Prague placed number 8 among the 32 cities.
b. Men were less likely to return phones than women.
c. It was a traditional and interesting study.
d. The busier the place, the greater the chance of the phone being returned.
A. abcB. bcdC. acdD. abd
3.Why did most people return the phones?
A. They knew they belonged to the researchers.
B. They wanted to be normal people.
C. They wanted to be trusted.
D. They didn’t want to commit a crime.
4.This passage is mainly about ________.
A. why most people returned the phones
B. whether people in busier places are more honest
C. a study of people’s honesty
D. the honesty of people who return phones
Annie Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her family was very poor. She decided to help her family even when she was very young, so she learned to use a gun, and began hunting (打猎) animals for food. She could shoot them without losing the important parts of the meat.
Soon her shooting ability became well known. When she was sixteen, she was invited to a competition with a famous marksman (神枪手), Frank Butler. Annie surprised everyone by winning the competition. Later that year she and Frank married.
In 1882, Annie Oakley and Frank Butler started putting on shows together. Frank Butler was the star of the show and she was his assistant. The famous Native American leader, Sitting Bull, thought so highly of her shooting ability that he called her "Little Sure Shot". Later Annie Oakley became the star of the show and Frank Butler was her assistant. Posters (海报) for the show called her the "Champion Markswoman".
During World War One, Annie Oakley wanted to train a group of women volunteers for the army, but the United States did not accept it. She gave American soldiers shooting lessons, and traveled across the country visiting many training camps. She gave shooting performances and raised money to support the American soldiers.
Annie Oakley died on November 3, 1926. Eighteen days later, Frank Butler died too.
1.According to the passage, Annie Oakley ________.
A. lived a hard life as a child
B. often went hunting with her family
C. joined the army during World War One
D. trained women soldiers during the war
2.Which of the following names was given by Sitting Bull?
A. Annie Oakley.
B. Frank Butler.
C. Little Sure Shot.
D. Champion Markswoman.
3.Which of the following shows best that Annie was skilled at shooting?
A. She could shoot animals without harming the important parts of the meat.
B. She offered to help the army by training women to be soldiers.
C. She put on shows as her husband’s assistant.
D. She raised money to support the American soldiers.
4.Which of the following is in the RIGHT order about Annie?
a. She took part in a shooting competition.
b. She gave shooting demonstrations and raised money.
c. She hunted animals for food.
d. She put on shows with Frank Butler.
e. She was called the "Champion Markswoman".
f. She married Frank Butler.
A. a, c, d, f, b, eB. a, c, b, e, f, d
C. c, a, d, f, e, bD. c, a, f, d, e, b
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(1)回顾双方的交流活动（如学习、生活、体育、文艺等方面）；
(2)谈谈收获或感想；
(3)表达祝愿与期望。
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