A．Use cash．Instead of paying things with credit cards, use cash for non-bill spending such as eating out, gas and groceries．Spending cash makes the spending more real, and there’s an added advantage of knowing when you’re out of cash.

       B．Small weekly savings transfers．I got this idea from my friend, who automatically deducts(扣除) $20 a week from his check to savings．I decided that I could live with the deduction of $40/week without really feeling it — it’s a relatively small transfer that I barely notice, and I save about $2,000 a year!

       C．Stay at home．Going out makes you spend money unnecessarily．You eat at restaurants, go to the mall, and stop at the gas station for snacks．It’s hard to avoid spending when you’re on the road．Instead, stay at home and find free entertainment．It’s also a great way to bond with your family.

       D．Don’t get catalogs(商品宣传册)．Their announcements of sales or cool new products make it very temting(引诱人的) to buy something you don’t need．Instead, stop getting the catalogs, and you’ll spend less.

       E．Keep a 30-day list．If you have an impulse(冲动) to buy something you don’t absolutely need, put it on a 30-day list．You can’t buy anything but necessities — everything else goes on the list．When the 30 days are up, you can buy it — but most likely, the strong urge to buy it will be gone, and you can evaluate it more calmly.

       F．Cook at home．I know it seems more difficult than eating out．But it doesn’t have to be hard．Make home-made pizza with a ready-made crust, some sauce, cheese and veggies．Put some spices on something and throw it in the oven while you cook some brown rice．Not only is this much cheaper than eating out, but it’s healthier.

阅读下面几位消费者的情况介绍，并为他们匹配合适的建议。

1.Mr．And Mrs．Brown are a newly-married couple who work in the same company．They don’t earn much in their work, but they have to spend a larger part of their income to pay for their rent and daily necessities．Furthermore, they seldom eat at home because neither of them cooks well．Therefore, they have to pay a lot more extra money for food.

2.Mrs．Wang enjoys shopping very much because she is free all day long．Whenever she is wandering in the shops or stores, she will have a strong impulse and find it difficult for her to get back home with her hands empty．But it is quite often that she will find what she has bought is almost useless when she gets home.

3.Tony is a university student in New York, who is far away from his parents．He pays everything with his credit card．He finds it very cool for him to purchase with his credit card．However, he often finds his money has already run out in the middle of the month.

4.Miss Betty is a high school girl whose parents give her some money every week．As her parents don’t earn much money, she wants to save some money secretly so that she can buy a digital camera.

5.Miss Catherine is a young girl who is easily to be persuaded into buying something useless．She will get encouraged to buy something when she sees an advertisement．Her parents have warned her many times against doing such stupid things, but it doesn’t work much.

       It was Christmas, 1961．I was teaching in a small town and my pupils were  36  looking forward to the great day of  37 

       Each day the children produced some new things like strings（串） of popcorn, which we hung from the   38  ．Through it all, Maria remained   39  , watching quietly．I wondered what would happen to this quiet child,   40   so happy, now so suddenly lonely．I hoped the  41  

would excite her, but nothing did．We made cards and gifts for each other and for family members．  42   my gift, I made my students each a little bag for   43   their gifts.

       The happy and exciting day of gift-giving finally came．Through it all, she sat quietly watching．I had made a   44   bag for her, hoping to see her smile, but she   45   away．I had not broken the wall she'd built around herself.

       After school, she didn't leave,   46   watched her classmates go out of the door.

       I sat down to   47   my breath, hardly aware of what was happening．She came to me with a small box, saying nothing．"For me?" I asked with a   48   smile．She just nodded her head．Inside was a small golden bell．Then I   49   into her dark brown eyes and in a flash I knew―she had   50   it for her mother, who had   51   just three weeks before.

       I looked at the bell and then the giver, whispering, "Oh, Maria, it is so beautiful.  52  would have loved it．" Neither of us could   53   the tears．She came into my arms and we wept（哭泣）together．And for that brief moment I became her  54  , for she had given me the greatest  55   of all: herself.

In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year  36 .?
According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a  37  one. The world will be more  38  because the population will continue to grow . The population could be  39  6 300 million, almost 2 115 million more than in 1985 .More people would move into cities, especially cities in  40  countries . Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would  41  have 15 million by then .
Food production will  42  , but not enough to feed all the people . Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,  43  most of the increase would be in countries that
 44  produce enough food for their people . Little increase is  45  in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . Poor farming ways are 46  large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts . More farmland is  47  as cities become larger and more houses are built . 48  will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil .?Many of the world’s  49  could disappear as more and more trees are cut down . Energy will continue to be a serious problem . The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010  50  . They only carried out the situation that  51  today . By changing the situation, by  52  the problems, the picture can be changed . There is  53  time for the nations of the world to work  54  a plan of action . But they warned that  55  too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success .?

In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year ___36___. according to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a ___37___ one. The world will be more __38___ because the population will continue to grow. The population could be ___39__ 6 300 million, almost 2 150 million more than in 1985. More people would move into cities, especially cities in ___40___ countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would ___41___ have 15 million by then.
Food production will ___42___, but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985, __43___ most of the increase would be in countries that ___44___ produce enough food for their people. Little increase is ___45___ in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Poor farming ways are ___46___ large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is ___47___ as cities become larger and more houses are built. ___48___ will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s ___49___ could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010 ___50___. They only carried out the situation that ___51___ today. By changing the situation, by ___52___ the problems, the picture can be changed. There is ___53___ time for the nations of the world to work ___54___ a plan of action. But they warned that ___55___ too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.

In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year  36 .?

According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a  37  one. The world will be more  38  because the population will continue to grow . The population could be  39  6 300 million, almost 2 115 million more than in 1985 .More people would move into cities, especially cities in  40  countries . Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would  41  have 15 million by then .

Food production will  42  , but not enough to feed all the people . Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,  43  most of the increase would be in countries that

 44  produce enough food for their people . Little increase is  45  in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . Poor farming ways are 46  large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts . More farmland is  47  as cities become larger and more houses are built . 48  will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil .?Many of the world’s  49  could disappear as more and more trees are cut down . Energy will continue to be a serious problem . The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010  50  . They only carried out the situation that  51  today . By changing the situation, by  52  the problems, the picture can be changed . There is  53  time for the nations of the world to work  54  a plan of action . But they warned that  55  too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success .?

1.                A．learning        B．project         C．notice    D．study

2.                A．pleased        B．pleasant        C．safe D．blue

3.                A．dangerous      B．beautiful        C．crowded  D．terrible

4.                A．no more than    B．as many as       C．as much as D．as large as

5.                A．developing      B．developed      C．big  D．mountainous

6.                A．none          B．each           C．all   D．neither

7.                A．insist           B．reduce         C．increase  D．continue

8.                A．so             B．but            C．or   D．however

9.                A．already         B．hardly          C．partly    D．never

10.               A．wanted         B．lacked         C．founded   D．expected

11.               A．destroying      B．protecting      C．disturbing  D．interrupting

12.               A．saved          B．lost            C．discovered D．used

13.               A．Air pollution     B．Water pollution  C．Some diseases  D．All farmland

14.               A．Animals        B．plants          C．forests    D．people

15.               A．must be true    B．will come true   C．can’t be true  D．may be wrong

16.A. happens       B develops          C .exists            D. appears

17.               A．settling         B．working at      C．answering D．dealing

18.               A．no            B．still            C．less  D．plenty of

19.               A．about          B．in             C．out   D．for

20.               A．working        B．suggesting      C．spending  D．waiting