You work hard for your money so why not keep it? Nothing is more disappointing than working hard all week just to have nothing to spend on the weekends or even worse, having to sit at home on vacation. Try these simple tips to help gain back your financial independence.
1．Educate yourself. Write down what you have spent. Look closely at where your money has been going the last few months. Are you spending a lot more money on morning coffee than you want to? Just by adding up what you're spending and where you're spending it each month will help you make better decisions about the purchases you make.
2．Keep your change. Instead of spending your change, make a habit of putting it all in a special jar or “piggy bank” at home. You will be surprised how quickly your change adds up. Want to go on a family vacation next summer but don't think you can afford it? Try having everyone in the family contribute their change to a “vacation jar”. Your family will enjoy pitching in and your children will learn valuable lessons in saving money and enjoying the reward.
3．Be a host! Like to go out with your friends for a good time? Sure, everyone does, but no one likes getting the bill at the end of the night. Going out to eat and have a few drinks can really put the strain on your wallet. Try going to the grocery store and purchasing food and drinks that can be made at home and inviting everyone over. Yes it can be expensive to play the host every time, but if you take turns going to friends, houses you can keep the cost down and still have a good time while enjoying the same food and drinks.
4．Plan your groceries. Grocery shopping can be dangerous in many ways. One way is to go shopping when you are hungry. Think about it, when you are hungry and want something to eat, you are more likely to put everything in your cart that you just don't need. Impulse(冲动)shopping brings us to the next point. Make a list(and check it twice)．Plan out your meals for the coming week and list all the ingredients you need at the store.
Saving money can be easy and even funny when you see how much you are able to save. Start by educating yourself and your family as to where the money goes every month and then set goals. Make games out of saving your change and look forward to the reward.
| Title：Save your money |
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| Problem |
You work hard but end up having no money at last. |
| Tips |
1.Educate yourself： ◆Write down your __ ◆Check where your money has been going and you can __ 2.Keep your change. ◆Make a habit. ◆Encourage your __ 3.Be a host： ◆Invite your friends to dinner by making food and drinks by _ ◆Play the host in _ 4.Plan your groceries： ◆Just __ ◆__ |
| Conclusion |
◆Your awareness of your _ ◆Keep the tips in mind and set _ ◆Saving money should be seen as a __ |
People __1.___________ (live) in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred __2.________ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four __3.__________ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need __4.________ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. __5._________ you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary __6.____________ (big). Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books __7.___________ (write) in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you come across __8.___________ new word, look it ___9.____________ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your __10.__________ (much) useful book.
In 1605 some Englishmen planned to kill their king, JamesⅠ, because they thought that he was a bad man. They knew that on November 5th the King 1. go to the House of Lords to talk with his nobles.
The men rented a 2. (build) next to the House of Lords. They dug through a wall and put many barrels of gunpowder in an underground room of the House of Lords. They 3.（choose）a man 4. (call) Guy Fakes to set fire 5. the gunpowder, but something went wrong 6. their plan. 7. of the men had a relative 8. was coming to the House of Lords to meet the King. He warned his relative to stay at home. The relative told 9. nobles and soon the King heard about the danger. Soldiers searched 10. underground rooms and found the gunpowder on November 4th, so Guy Fakes was caught and killed.
巩固强化二十三篇
语法填空（每篇共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请根据上下文填入适当的词语，
或使用括号中的词语的适当形式完成语法填空，并将答案填写在相应的位置上。
In the United States, there were 222 people __1.______ (report) to be billionaires(亿万富翁) in 2003. The __2._______ (wealth) of these is Bill Gates, worth at least $ 41 billion, who made his money __3.______ starting the company Microsoft. Mr. Gates was only 21 years old __4._______ he first helped to set up the company in 1976. He was a billionaire __5.______ the time he was 31.
__6._________, there are still some other people who have made lots of money at even __7.__________ (young) ages. Other young people who have struck it rich include Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple. __8._________ of these child actors made over a million dollars __9.____________ (act) in movies before they were 14. But __10.__________ youngest billionaire is Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who, in 2001, inherited (继承) a billion dollars when he turned 18 !
基础训练篇（25）
On keeping a Diary in English
Keeping a diary in English is one of the 1.___________ (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.
2._____________ (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 3.____________ time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. 4.____________ we persist in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 5.__________. In the first place, 6.____________ often happens that we have trouble finding appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.
As far as I _7. ______________ (concern), my 8._____________(suggest) is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 9._____ ______ great use to keep a diary in English for 10.___ ________ development of our writing skills.
基础训练篇（24）
Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact 1. she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 2. a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without 3. (stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason 4. she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak 5 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished 6. he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 7. (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had 8. (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts 9. your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary 10. (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.