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题型：阅读理解-阅读单选 难度：0.65 引用次数：179 题号：22084956

How You Can Save Money on Rail Fares

Save 33% with a railcard

Everyone knows about the young person’s railcard —or, to give it its proper name, the 16-25 railcard—but are you aware of the 26-30 railcard’s existence, or that senior railcard is available to all those aged 60 and over?

There are now nine to choose from, and about the only group that doesn’t have one aimed specifically at them, are single people aged 31 to 59.

And even they have the option to buy a Network card for use across the southern half of England, including in and out of London.

The most popular railcards cost £30 a year (or, in many cases, £70 for three years) and typically give a 33% discount on the ticket price.

Users of some of the cards (including 16-25 and 26-30) can use them at peak times—albeit (尽管) with a £ 12 minimum fare. Others, such as senior users, have to travel off-peak, which generally means after 9:30 a.m. or, annoyingly, 10 a.m. in the case of the Network card.

In some cases you will save the card’s purchase price in one or two trips. They are now available digitally (to be kept on a mobile) or in paper form. So don’t forget to keep your phone charged.

Try to commute off-peak

In response to more people working part of their week at home, the rail industry has started offering flexible season tickets that typically allow users to travel on any eight days in a 28-day period.

The problem is that in many cases the discounts are not sufficient to make them worthwhile.

When Money Saving Expert crunched the numbers, it found part-time season tickets offered the best value to those travelling two days a week, but, even then, not in all cases.

If you go into the office for a few days, you are likely to be better off buying daily tickets, or the full season ticket, it concluded.

One of the biggest ways to save while commuting is to shift your travel to off-peak—assuming your boss will allow it. This makes particular sense if you can add a railcard, too.

For others, Carnet tickets offer a 10% discount on certain routes, but again only off-peak.

1. We can learn from the passage that the railcard is available to all the following EXCEPT ___.
A．a 55-year-old professorB．a 28-year-old office lady
C．a retired postman aged 65D．a university student aged 20
2. Which of the following statements is true?
A．A senior railcard holder can save 33% if he travels at 8 a.m. on Monday.
B．Carnet tickets offer a 10% discount on most routes in and out of London.
C．Those commuting three days a week are advised to buy part time season tickets.
D．Network cards are proper choices for single visitors across the southern half of England.
3. The underlined phrase “crunched the numbers” means “__________” in the context.
A．drew the outlinesB．updated the statistics
C．followed the directionsD．did a lot of calculations
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Have deliberate conversations about money.

Talk openly with your kids about the money you make and what it pays for, such as home, food, clothing and transportation. A conversation like this will give them context and will help them grasp early on that it costs money to have the essentials and that everything else is extra.


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Give them a modest allowance.


A child who is old enough to count is old enough to get allowance. The amount should be an age-appropriate amount where stuff they’ll want will require at least a few weeks of saving to buy.
    3     Normal chores(家务)are part of being in a family, not about getting paid.

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Your kids have “regular” chores, already. By all means feel free to offer up those bigger, unpleasant tasks as optional paid jobs — weeding, shoveling snow, whatever they’ll really have to work at to earn those extra bucks m and kick back while they learn the value of a dollar.

Be a good financial role model.


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D．Create opportunities for extra earnings.
E．Children learn by observing adult behavior.
F．Avoiding the subject actually creates unnecessary negative feelings.
G．It’s never too early or too late to teach the children the value or a dollar.
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Get ready the night before.     1     Put out any make-up or any hair product you’ll be using. Then get a nice, long sleep. There’s nothing worse than looking terrible on the first day of school.

Eat a good breakfast.     2     Try a healthy breakfast. A protein-rich breakfast may make you feel sluggish(行动迟缓的)and sugar-rich foods may affect your ability to stay focused.

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F．You’d be surprised how happy and focused you’ll be after eating a good breakfast.
G．Sit next to people you feel comfortable with if it is not possible to get lunch with your friends.
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