Saving money when you’re young is an important lesson. All good lessons and habits begin early, and saving is a skill that everyone needs. Many people — adults included — do not have a good sense of saving for the long run.
Besides being a great way to ensure you have enough money for your old age, saving money when you are young can help your future.
Making sure you don’t spend too much and continuing to save is a good way to accumulate wealth. I have put my earnings in a bank, and with investments(投资) and regular interest rates, have almost doubled my savings. Your money will double after twelve years at a modest rate of six percent interest. Many teens I know spend all the money they earn so it never has a chance to grow.
Teens should realize that now is a prime time to begin saving. In high school many parents pay for almost everything, so expenses can be small. If you have a job, you should have fun with some of the money. But you should also save some so that it will grow for you without your working, and begin planning for your future.
After high school, college is expensive and then “real” life begins, with expenses such as food and rent.
If you can hold onto a good part of the money you earn as a teen, going to college and buying a house will be much easier. The earlier you begin saving, the more time the money has to grow.
Saving early means you will have to work fewer years when you are older and allow you to spend time doing things you want. You also want to be financially secure so you can live the way you want without worrying. Also, you will be able to retire at a reasonable age.
1.Which of the following is an advantage of saving money when young?
A. It teachers important life lessons. B. It helps develop good habits.
C. It results in a sense of responsibility. D. It contributes to one’s future.
2.The author advises teens ________.
A. to put all their earnings in a bank for interest
B. not to spend the money until twelve years later
C. to pay for their schooling by themselves
D. not to spend all their earnings having fun
3.According to the author, what will “real” life bring about?
A. Lower interest rate. B. Higher living cost.
C. Difficulty in finding jobs. D. Less time to save money.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A. The Earlier, The Better B. Money Is Everything
C. The Importance of Saving D. To Save for Your Old Age
The summer before my junior year in high school, my family and I took a trip to a completely new world. Being from a small town, I had never really been exposed to a large city such as New York City.
As we stood waiting for a taxi outside of the airport, it was immediately apparent to me that New York City was not the same as New Caney, Texas. It seemed like everyone there was in a hurry to get to another place. The loud and constant sound of cars was heard throughout the entire trip. When we found our hotel in Times Square, I noticed that it wasn’t just the cars that were in a hurry. Everyone in the streets was walking quickly that indicated a rush to be somewhere. Just standing and watching the many people rushing their own separate ways was an interesting observation.
In addition to the people and transportation, the buildings were also an incredible sight. Each street was crammed with buildings that were built side by side with no room in between, and a number of skyscrapers were present throughout the city as well. The stores were also large compared to the ones of my little town. A small shop in New Caney would be a huge store that took up an entire building in New York. This would make it seem logical that the prices of everything in New York were almost double those back home.
For the first time in my life, I was exposed to a little taste of what the real world is like. The incredible transportation, the huge skyscrapers, and all of the thousands of people made me anxious to grow up and perhaps move to an incredible city such as this one. Either way, my first trip to New York was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, one I will always treasure.
1.According to the author, New Caney is _______.
A. a very large city B. a rather small town
C. a busy and noisy place D. an undeveloped village
2.The author was impressed by all of the following EXCEPT_________.
A. the people B. the transportation
C. the buildings D. the custom
3.The underlined phrase “was creamed with” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by “_________”.
A. was full of B. was ruined by
C. was lacking in D. was narrowed by
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Big cities can provide young people with more chances.
B. A trip to New York City reduced my love of my hometown.
C. My visit to New York City was a life changing experience.
D. One’s impression of a city is usually formed by the first visit.
Disneyland calls itself the happiest place in the world, but to keep visitors happy in its five locations across the globe, each theme park is adjusted to cater to local cultures and tastes. Outside of the two original resort areas in the US, Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida, the Disneylands in Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong offer subtly different layouts(布局) to make their millions of visitors each year feel at home.
Disneyland Paris
After excitedly entering Disneyland Paris, which opened in 1992, visitors can see an arcade(拱廊) that features a small replica(复制品) of the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the US in 1886, making it a fitting introduction to Europe’s only instance of this American theme park. The arcade also offers essential cover from the cold and rain that typically hit Pairs. As you venture further into Disneyland Paris, you will see a lot of European visionaries.
Tokyo Disneyland
Opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland is the third most visited of any theme park in the world after the two Disney parks in the US. Like Walt Disney World in Florida, Cinderella’s Castle is located at the center of the park, said to culture than Sleeping Beauty, whose castle is featured in the center of Disneyland California.
Hong Kong Disneyland
The Hong Kong Disneyland, opened in 2005, incorporates feng shui and traditional Chinese elements into its design to attract tourists from the Chinese mainland.
Feng shui balances the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water to create positive energy, and these elements can be seen throughout the theme park. Rocks represent stability and prevent good luck from flowing away, so two gigantic boulders (圆石) have been placed at the park’s entrance to stop energy from flowing out of the resort. Water stimulates fortune and wealth, and the theme park is full of lakes, ponds and streams—not to mention the large fountain featuring Disney characters placed at the main entrance of the park.
1.Which of the following is the third most visited theme park in the world?
A. Walt Disney World.
B. Disneyland Paris.
C. Hong Kong Disneyland.
D. Tokyo Disneyland.
2.According to the text, the Statue of Liberty replica in Disneyland Paris is to __________.
A. serve as an introduction to American Disneyland
B. reflect the historical relationship between France and the US
C. show Americans’ artistic taste and knowledge
D. ensure the visitors’ safety from all over the world
3.The passage is mainly about Disneyland theme parks’ ________.
A. popularity around the world
B. small similarities between them
C. differences between each other
D. adjustments to local cultures
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I was not good in math in the first year of junior high school. Having been failed so many times in math exams, I was anxious about the subject. Every time I tried my best work out a math problem and I was afraid of making mistakes, which really made me feel helpless. Unluckily, I met a nice math teacher in a second year. She told me that I did need to worry about making mistakes because I could find out my shortcomings through my mistakes. She always encouraged myself to try again whenever I make a mistake. Thanks to my teacher encouragement, I became interested in math and made rapid progress. My experience proves that failure was the mother of success and that we can learn a lot from our mistakes.
Living in two different cultures is not an easy thing. When I was ten years old, my parents 1.(move) to the US from Sri Lanka, which is 2. island off the coast of India.
3. we now live in the US, we follow the customs and traditions of Sri Lanka. I have learned to speak 3 languages, including English. I eat a 4. (various) of foods and celebrate different holidays 5. have to do with my culture.
However, there are many disadvantages of being part of two cultures. Sometimes, speaking a language at home and speaking another language in school can be 6. (confuse); sometimes I have trouble 7. (express) my thoughts in English because they can’t understand me well; sometimes my culture does make me 8. (separate) from others because I feel too different. I am 9. (close) to my culture of Sri Lanka than that of the US. I don’t listen to English music as much as I listen to Indian music. Therefore, I feel10.(extreme) lonely when I don’t know what song they are talking about.
