Secrets of Great Savers
Wondering how to save more money but have no idea where to cut?
It is a good idea to take a job for a discount. If you are looking for apart-time job, fill out applications at shops where you often do your shopping.
Why not help your friend move? Always help friends pack their belongings and load the truck when they are moving. When people are loading their households into boxes, they usually find items that they no longer need or do not want to pack or unpack. As a result, you can bring home hundreds of pounds worth of frozen food, tableware, books, toys, furniture(家具) and other household items.
| A．Get socks of one colour. |
| B．Bleach socks to whiten them. |
| C．We share four secrets of super savers here. |
| D．So, parents buy a lot of new clothes to meet the need. |
| E．Best of all they will still think you’ve done them a favour. |
| F．For example, clothing shops may give their employees a discount. |
| G．Once they do a favor, your problem will probably be solved very quickly. |
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【推荐1】People often seem easy to pick up infections and catch colds wherever they go. But a little prevention can go a long way for kids and adults. Just follow these tips:
Go to bed early. Research has shown that not getting enough sleep can make you more likely to get sick when you pick up cold viruses.
Get a flu shot. Everyone in your family who is older than 6 months should get one each year. What about babies? They’re too young to get flu shots, but they can have serious problems if they get the flu.
Eat a rainbow. Balanced, healthy meals with plenty of fruits and vegetables can help keep everyone’s immune(免疫)system in top form. Look for foods rich in vitamin A (sweet potatoes, carrots), vitamin C (fruits), and vitamin E (sunflower seeds). Lean protein (seafood, eggs, beans) can also help boost your body, defenses. What about those so-called health products that claim to boost your immunity with big doses of vitamins?
| A．Not sure if you’ve washed enough? |
| B．Improve your hand-washing technique. |
| C．Make sure you have enough soaps for daily use. |
| D．And the less rest you get, the greater your chances. |
| E．Much guesswork happens when your child has a cold or the flu. |
| F．Science has shown that they will not stop you from getting a cold. |
| G．So obviously, it is extra important for their caregivers to get flu shots instead. |
【推荐2】A recent study suggests that when it comes to the benefits of reading, just doing it matters more than the content. Researchers have found that reading novels helps the brain development in understanding others and imagining the world. They also have found that people who spend a few hours per week reading books live longer than those who don’t read.
But how to build a habit of reading? Like any habit, the trick is in figuring out what suits you. The hardest part about reading is actually picking up a book. You have to sit down, pick up a book and start reading. “I always have a book next to wherever I put my phone,” My friend Jimmy once told me. “So if I want to check my phone,I physically can see the book there. Nine times out of ten. I end up reading the book instead of using my phone for nothing.”
Another challenge is time, and in that case, audio-books (有声书) can be a good choice. Audio-books are great for filling the mind while you’re on the way to work , washing dishes or working out at the gym.
If you’re still stuck on the way to developing a reading habit, the best way is to revisit your old favorite books to get your youthful reading pleasure. You should free yourself from the opinion that only important or educational books are worth reading. There’s no shame in rereading the books that made you fall in love with reading in the first place. Restarting the practice of reading is a little like picking up painting. It takes some work to get into the best state, but once you begin, the results are beautiful and satisfying.
1. What is the most difficult part in forming the reading habit?| A．Getting reading skills. | B．Finding a great book. |
| C．Having limited time. | D．Getting reading started. |
| A．They are time saving. | B．They provide more pleasure. |
| C．They help brain development. | D．They offer more book choices. |
| A．It helps restart reading. | B．It is of great convenience(方便). |
| C．It improves the taste for art. | D．It can increase your patience. |
| A．Method of killing free time | B．Advantages of using audio-books |
| C．Way to choose educational books | D．Advice on developing a reading habit |
【推荐3】There’s a widely held belief that self-discipline means being able to do something when people don’t actually want to do it.
Containing one’s authenticity comes at a cost.
But how does someone become such a person in the first place? They follow their own interests and deal with the challenges that they personally feel called to manage.
So here’s the secret to self-discipline. Self-discipline is not about forcing yourself to meet social expectations, but following your own dream and allowing your authentic self to develop.
| A．I know this from first-hand experience. |
| B．I didn’t believe this in my previous life. |
| C．Truly self-disciplined people are followers of themselves. |
| D．Forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do is not self-discipline. |
| E．They go after what they genuinely want, not what society tells them to do. |
| F．Gradually, I became out of touch with my own true feelings, desires, and nature. |
| G．For them, self-discipline means ignoring their real self in favour of the perfect self. |
【推荐1】Time to make lemonade out of life’s lemons
When you have an unexpected lockdown staring at you, take it one day at a time. Instead of getting bogged down by the thought, take each of those days as an opportunity to build new skills, explore hobbies and do things you’ve always wanted to.
1. Give your house a makeover
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3. Find the bookworm in you
This is a no-brainer to be honest. Besides being a great entertainer, this can be a great use of your me-time, simply because you will enhance your knowledge of people, society, history and culture.
4. Try digital housekeeping
Your home may be tidy and in order, but your digital life is a mess: photos all out of place, the music from god-knows-when, old text files that need to be cleaned up.
| A．Be a social butterfly — on the phone |
| B．Here is a list of ideas for you to explore |
| C．Also, research suggests that reading keeps you smarter |
| D．Used to the common setting of your routine workplace |
| E．Therefore, you are supposed to finish the following things |
| F．Not to mention a system backup and an update of your operating system |
| G．Tired of seeing the same old seating/dining arrangements, day in, day out |
【推荐2】How to Live a Happy Life
Happiness is what we need most with the increase of pressure in modern life.
• Take exercise. Other than health benefits that are too numerous to mention, exercise makes you smarter, happier, improves sleep, and makes you feel better about your body.
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• Challenge Yourself.
• Laugh. Laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and the feet. It can even reduce the effect of pain on the body. Humor is a good way to cause laughter.
| A．Life is always full of hope. |
| B．Spend time with friends and family. |
| C．However, sometimes it seems far away from us. |
| D．It would be better if you take exercise in nature. |
| E．Do something kind for the people you care about. |
| F．Learning another language can keep your mind sharp. |
| G．Just thinking about funny moments or things can help a lot. |
【推荐3】Should you share goals or keep them private? You’ll find conflicting answers if you turn to Google. Some say sharing goals cannot live up to one’s expectations because you’ll feel rewarded before actually doing anything to achieve them. The Arabs have for centuries voiced a similar message in the proverb “the more you surround your candle, the more it remains lit”. More recently, the idea became widespread in 2010 with a TED talk titled “Keep your goals to yourself”.
“In most cases you get more benefit from sharing your goal than if you don’t—as long as you share it with someone whose opinion you value,” Howard Klein told Ohio State News. Klein and his colleagues conducted several studies on goal-sharing. In one, the results showed that working adults frequently do share goals and are more likely to be committed to achieving those goals when they’re shared with people who are perceived to be of higher status.
A second study involved 171 undergraduate students who were asked to play a game. After the first round, the students were asked to play the game again, but this time they had to set a goal. The researchers separated the students into three groups. For one group, the students had to share their goals with a lab assistant who was dressed in a suit and introduced himself as a doctoral-level student in the business school who was an expert on the topic. For another group, the lab assistant was a casually dressed man who identified himself as a student at a local community college. A third group wasn’t asked to share their goals with anyone.
The results showed that people who shared their goals with the high-status person not only-showed higher commitment to achieving the goal, but also performed better in the game. Meanwhile, the two other groups showed similar commitment and performance. Klein said, “You want to be dedicated and unwilling to give up on your goal, which is more likely when you share that goal with someone you look up to and whose opinion you value and which might incentivize you to achieve your goals.”
1. What message does the Arab proverb express?| A．Setting goals makes you more determined. |
| B．Sharing your goals with others gets benefits. |
| C．Keeping your goals secret is the best policy. |
| D．Publishing your goals makes you rewarded. |
| A．How students consider the two lab assistants matters most. |
| B．Adults are more likely to achieve their goals than students. |
| C．Adults are more committed when speaking out their goals. |
| D．The experiment on the third group turned out fruitless. |
| A．Assist. | B．Encourage. | C．Intend. | D．Advise. |
| A．By discussing it with your friends. |
| B．By sharing it with respected people. |
| C．By maintaining your performance. |
| D．By questioning people of high status. |
【推荐1】Danelien van Aalst at the University of Groningen and her co-workers have done research on how relative age (相对年龄) affects popularity among 14 to 15-year-olds.
Researchers surveyed more than 13,000 teenagers in England, Sweden and the Netherlands on who they thought was the most popular in their class. Then the researchers gave each student in their classroom a popularity score linked to their birth month as well as their age position in their class. They discovered this: the older the student was, the more likely he or she was to be considered popular.
“A child enters school before or after a certain cut-off date and that determines how old or young you are relative to your year group,” says van Aalst. “We found that if you’re born right after the cut-off date, which makes you one of the oldest members of your class, you’re going to be popular.”
They found that the same effect also applied at the year-group level. Here, it was the children who were the oldest relative to all of their peers in the year group-rather than just those in their own class-that were the most popular.
All three countries showed roughly the same pattern (模式). However, at the classroom level, it was in the Netherlands that the pattern was the strongest. This is partly because the country has a system of grade retention - when students don’t meet their academic requirements, their teachers will hold them back a year, which means they then become the oldest in their class and often the most popular.
This relative age effect has also been shown in other areas. “Relative age has earlier been proved to affect school performance-relatively older children do better in school,” says Herman van de Werfhorst at the University of Amsterdam. Similarly, previous research has shown that older children tend to be better at sports than younger students in the same year group.
1. How did the researchers know who the popular students were?| A．By recording students’ performance. | B．By studying earlier research results. |
| C．By collecting answers from students. | D．By comparing the ages of students. |
| A．Popularity. | B．Relative age. | C．The survey data. | D．The cut-off date. |
| A．Their teachers would be happy to have them in the class. |
| B．It would be difficult for them to pass the exams in Netherlands. |
| C．They might gain more popularity than others in the same year group. |
| D．They might be the most popular among the peers of the three countries. |
| A．The older a child gets, the wiser he or she will be. |
| B．Many students want to be held back to be popular. |
| C．Older children are likely to perform better in school. |
| D．Older children are often more popular than their younger peers. |
【推荐2】We know that our smartphones are expertly-designed distraction devices that weaken our efforts to resist. But, we also know that resistance is important if we’re ever going to find a workable middle ground with our phones – and a recent study has served up another reason to strengthen our resolve.
Here it is: when you pick up your phone while doing anything mentally challenging, you're handicapping your brain’s ability to recharge and performance predictably decreases.
That’s the conclusion of a study that put roughly 400 college students to task solving challenging word puzzles. When they were about halfway through, the researchers allowed most of the students to take a break either using their phones, using a computer or reading a print circular. Other students were told to just keep on working without any sort of break.
The results showed that the students who took a break with their phones were the worst performers of all the groups. They took 19% longer to finish the tasks and they solved 22% fewer word-problems than all the other groups combined. In fact, the cell-phone group’s efficiency and processing speed was about the same as the group that took no break.
The reason offered by the researchers isn’t merely because digital devices are inherently engaging(迷人的), but because our smartphones are attention gates into so many other attention-catching areas, each pulling our mental energy in different directions.
This research stresses that we ignored the energy reduction from using our smartphones, and that we were over-confident about what our brains can handle. We also overlooked the emotional connection we'd developed with our phones. It's no longer just a device. It's a companion.
“It is important to know the costs associated with reaching for this device during every spare minute,” Kurtzberg added. “We assume it’s no different from any other break – but the phone may carry increasing levels of distraction that make it difficult to return focused attention to work tasks.”
1. What does “resolve” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Finding a workable phone. | B．Resisting using phones. |
| C．Making full use of phones. | D．Upgrading personal phones. |
| A．strengthening | B．performing |
| C．weakening | D．changing |
| A．There are two groups of students in the research. |
| B．All the students can not take a break in the research. |
| C．The cell-phone group did best in solving the puzzles. |
| D．Students have to complete word puzzles before the break. |
| A．The phone is no longer favored by people. |
| B．The phone is not as powerful as expected. |
| C．People cannot connect emotionally with phones. |
| D．People didn’t fully understand the effect of phones. |
【推荐3】In New York City, eating on the subway is controversial. No law bans the practice, but a Democratic state senator introduced one last week. The proposed law would ban eating on the subway system and fine first time violators $250, according to the New York Times. Supporters of the bill argue that eating on the subway attracts rates. Other say the broader target should be those who carelessly drop litter in public places, rather than those who carefully sip their coffee and eat their bread on the way to work. They also argue that “street food” is an important part of New York’s culture and history. Banning its consumption in public areas such as the subway would have negative effects.
Street food and eating in public places is along-established cultural practice in cities like New York, Beijing and Paris. But commonly, it has been traditionally thought of as what the lower classes would do. Eating in public was (and in some places, still is) associated with uncivilized, poorer people. In the 19th century, eating in public was seen as a threat to morality and public health. Putnam’s (a popular magazine at the time) stated, “Eating in public may lead to a certain freedom of manner in little ladies and gentlemen. It was something people in the Victorian era did not want to encourage. A recent New York Times article drew a link between this moral panic about street food and concern over the growing populations of Irish German, Italian and Jewish immigrants who ran food carts in the 1800s. “To Victorian society, immigrant street peddlers were called ‘hucksters’, a name that still has a bit of moral judgment to this day.”
In Australia, street food is not something you see every day. Carts selling tasty snacks only come out for festivals or market days. However, eating in public places such as parks is encouraged. Outdoor barbeques at the beach or picnics in the countryside are common. While eating on public transport is discourages, it would unlikely lead to any sort of conflict in Australia. From an Australian perspective, street food is an exciting and tasty new dining opportunity, and not one I would associate with being uncivilized.
China’s street food scene is similar to that of New York City’s: It is a culturally entrenched practice and one that adds a lot of color and flavor to the scene of streets. But whether you love eating street food, or have to eat your breakfast on the run, it’s best to be considerate when enjoying a bite in public.
1. Supporters of “street food” are against the bill, because ________.| A．eating on the subway may attract undesirable pests like mice |
| B．consuming food on the way to work proves their carefulness |
| C．banning litter-dropping is more important for the environment |
| D．enjoying a bite in public areas is a part of the city’s culture |
| A．Only the uncivilized, poorer people were allowed to eat in public places. |
| B．Street food was seen as a threat in the 19th century because they were not heathy. |
| C．Eating in public was considered impolite for children in the Victorian era. |
| D．Immigrant street peddlers were encouraged and thus welcomed in the 1800s. |
| A．Eating in public like parks may be seen as ill-mannered. |
| B．Having food on the subway system may cause serious conflicts. |
| C．People may feel excited about being allowed to eat in public. |
| D．Tasting street food may bring much enjoyment whenever possible. |
| A．deep-rooted | B．eye-catching | C．well-known | D．far-reaching |
