It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.

Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.

Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.

The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some

specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.

1. The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.

A. 赠品            B. 奢侈品            C. 特价商品          D. 圣诞礼品

2.We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

A. on the Internet    B. in specialty stores   C. from salesmen        D. from retailers

3.In this passage the writer wants to ______.

A. tell us to shop online                      

B. tell us the best way to do shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D. give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

4. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ______.

A. people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday

B. it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money

C. retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts

D. with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts

_______ there _______ interesting news in today’s newspaper?   --- Yes , there ______.

Welcome to City Library

City Library is open to everyone from 9：30 am to 6：00 pm every day．You can borrow books，CDs and videos．You can surf the Internet，too．

■Books

·Picture books for kids

·Books in 36 languages

·Story books

You can read magazines and newspapers in the reading room on the second floor．Don’t take them out．Put them back where you take after reading．

■CDs

·Music（pop，rock，jazz…）

·Language learning（French，Japanese and English）

You can enjoy listening to the CDs in a special room on the third floor，one dollar an hour．You can borrow them back to your home Free!

■Videos

·All kinds of films

·TV plays

You can't watch them here．You can borrow them，one dollar for two videos．

■Internet

·The Internet room is on the first floor，two dollars an hour．You aren't allowed to play computer games．

1．When can you go to the library?

A．At any time．       B．In the day．         C．At night．

2．What can you do in the library?

A．Read newspapers．                                 B．Play computer games．

C．See a film．

3．Where can we enjoy the CDs in the library?

A．On the third floor．                                 B．On the second floor．

C．On the．first floor．

4．Tom surfed the Internet for 2 hours and borrowed 4 videos．How much did he pay?

A．$8．                   B．$6．                    C．$12．

5．In which part may we read this passage in the newspaper?

A．Sports．              B．News．               C．Ads．