文段表达 （15分）
根据中文提示和英文书信内容，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的回信，信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
75．假设你叫刘京，是美国中学生托尼的笔友，你收到了他的来信。请给托尼写一封回信，回答他的问题，介绍你父亲（或母亲）的情况，表达你的感激之情，并谈谈准备为他（或她）生日做哪些有意义的事。

In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(经济萧条), many have learnt to live  16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She  17  a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned  18  $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be  19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still  20  $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in  21  expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the  22  cost small. For people, that  23  housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was  24 . When she ate  25 , she went to cheap restaurants.  26  she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often  27  a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the  28  for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even  29  to take two trips, one to the Netherlands,  30  to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.

Many people think that Americans  21   their cars almost more than anything else. When   22__ people are fourteen years old, they want to have their __23_  cars. They don’t ask for a car from their   24__. So many of them work in  _25_  time during their last year of high school to buy a car. Learning to   26 _ and getting a driver’s license may be one of the most exciting things in a young person’s life.

Some people almost   27 _ go to a doctor when they are ill. But they will __28_  their cars to a garage as soon as they think there is a   29  . On Saturdays or Sundays some people may   30   most of their time washing and repairing their cars.

1.A. prefer     B. love         C. drive        D. play

2.A. little     B. big          C. old          D. young

3.A. new            B. own          C. expensive    D. cheap

4.A, friends        B. teachers     C. parents      D. brothers

5.A. free           B. busy         C. study        D. good

6.A. make           B. mend         C. wash         D. drive

7.A. always     B. never        C. often        D. usually

8.A. take           B. carry        C. pull         D. lift

9.A. question       B. wrong        C. mistake      D. problem

10.A. cost          B. get          C. spend        D. use

文段表达 （15分）

根据中文提示和英文书信内容，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的回信，信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

75．假设你叫刘京，是美国中学生托尼的笔友，你收到了他的来信。请给托尼写一封回信，回答他的问题，介绍你父亲（或母亲）的情况，表达你的感激之情，并谈谈准备为他（或她）生日做哪些有意义的事。