Do you have the ability to live cheaply? Now here’s a true story of an American girl，Sarah．
41 Sarah left university，she began to live in New York City on her own．She 42 a job in a publishing house，but the salary(薪水)was 43 $30，000 a year．Her parents thought her life would be hard，but Sarah 44 Iive on her salary and stilI saved $5，000 in a year．How was that 45 in one of the most expensive cities in the world?
Cheap living 46 starts with keeping the big cost small．For most people，that 47 housing．So Sarah chose to share a flat with three other friends．Her next biggest cost was 48 ．When she ate out，she went to cheap restaurants． 49 she bought a $9．99 whole chicken at a local restaurant．She then 50 the chicken bones(骨头)home and made soup out of them．Nowadays young people often 51 a lot of money on entertainment(娱乐)．But Sarah said，“I enjoy walking 52 in New York City．I love going to museums and parks．” Did Sarah feel poor 53 cheap living? Not really．She even managed to take two trips，one to the Netherlands， 54 to Portland．
“Don’t think of saving money as something 55 ．It’s a kind of game，”said Sarah．
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When I was a teenager growing up in France, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could this was to work in the local paper factory in my town, or get married. I was very nervous when I told my I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, “ You are going to college.” I was very when he said, “OK. Let’s go to the paper factory.”
Two days later, took me to the factory. I imagined everyone to be friends, together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
When we the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard(门卫) and one minute later we were . I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was . I ran back to my father and said, “I want to go home.”
He asked me, “What do you think of the ?”
“Too bad,” I answered.
“And marriage is even !” he said.
I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard I could get into a good college. I studying English so I decided to major in(主修) languages at college. Thanks to my father and our to the paper factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!
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China is the home of tea. It more than 4,000 years of history. People in China drink tea daily. the three major drinks ----tea, coffee and cocoa（可口茶）, tea is drunk by people in the world. Over a thousand years ago, tea from China, silk and porcelain(陶瓷), began to be known by the world and has been important .
Tea leaves mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild(暖和的) and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are alltea.
Over the past centuries, Chinese peopletheir unique（独特的）tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.A. have B. has C.is
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One night, I was sitting in my kitchen half listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.
About 20minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the ____. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kev, do you want to talk?” No answer. I tried again, “Hey, why don’t you come out of there?” Again, no answer. So I took a stack of（一堆） cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to ______, we can write notes to each other.”
An hour later I was _______ sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank(空白的) and the other was cards _____Kevin on which he had translated all his unpleasant feelings into words for me.______ I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “______ in this family cares about me, I’m not clever. Tommy thinks I’m a fool and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even ___ me.”
Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. It was ______what he had said about me. I wrote back, “You know Kev, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it to you. I am here for you and you are _____ in this family.”
There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had _____ cards wrote on a torn-up(撕毁的) paper cup, “Thanks.”
I wrote back “For what?” It returned to me with “loving me” written on it. Since then, I try my best to ____ half notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer _____ now, and sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”
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Do you often communicate with your parents? Some parents are always comparing their with themselves when they were young or with other people when they were children.
"When I was your age," a father said to his sixteen-year-old son one day, "I was at the top of my class every year. And I what I wanted to do when I left school. I had goals (目标). You are always at the bottom (最后) of your class you have no goals."
The man's son said nothing. He had already heard this from his father many times. "And when your mother was your age, " the young man's father , " she had a good job and she lots of money. You don't even have a part-time job .You earn nothing. " The man's son still said nothing. He had heard this before, too. "
And when your brother was your age, "the young man's father said, "he studied hard. But you just waste your time."
And the man's son still said nothing.
Finally, the young man's father said, "And when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he worked all day and studied at night."
This time the son stay silent. "
And when Abraham Lincoln was your age, father," he said, "He was the President of United States. are you?"
His father had no answer this.
Are your parents always comparing you with others? And what's your reply? Do you have a better way to communicate with each other?
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A thirsty bee went to a river to drink. As it was drinking, the bee was away by the running water.
A kind bird saw that the bee was in . It picked off a tree and threw into the water in front of the bee. The bee climbed the leaf, and it was brought to the land. The bee thanked the bird a lot and then .
Not that, the bird was sitting the branch of a tree. It did not know that a man was shooting at it. But the bee saw the man was doing. So it flew into the man’s and stung(刺) him. The in the man’s eye was so great that he was not able to the bird, and the bird flew away.
，the bee, life had been saved by the bird, was able to save the life of the bird.
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