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If you lack money, making lifestyle changes will help you overcome your recent financial problems.Many of us are facing job loss, illness, or just hard economic times.All of the following ideas will require some level of sacrifice on your part, but sometimes {that’s what it takes to overcome financial problems.
The complete cost of operating a vehicle is about 56 cents per mile.Selling a car will save your money on gas, insurance, parking expenses, and licensing fees.In addition, you’ll make money on the sale of the car.
Find a cheaper cell phone plan or get rid of your cell phone all together.You can have one cell phone in your family, and it is primarily for emergency use.(4)Make sure to tell your friends and family you are turning off your phone for a week so they don’t worry what happened to you.Turn your phone off, put it in a drawer, and don’t use it.If you really want to keep your home phone line, consider dropping the extra services attached to it.Don’t pay for services you don’t need and don’t use.
Everyone knows smoking causes cancer.That fate alone should be a good enough reason to quit the habit.But in addition to causing death, smoking takes a huge bite out of your pocket money. (5) Quitting smoking will be a challenging gradual change, but it will have immediate and long term benefits, most importantly for your health, but also for your wallet.
Spending $10 per day on lunch at the office adds up to over $200 per month.Save that $200 by bringing your lunch to work instead.Prepare your lunch the night before to save time in the morning before leaving for work.Bringing your lunch to work will save money and probably a lot of calories.Restaurant food is often unhealthy and has too much calories, so use this new opportunity to improve your diet.Pack tasty healthy foods that will fill you up during the day.
1.Fill in the blank in the third paragraph to complete the sentence.(please answer within 10 words.)
2.List three suggestions on saving money given by the passage.(please answer within 10 words.)
3.Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
4.What’s the main idea of the passage? (please answer within 10 words.)
5.Besides the ideas mentioned in the passage, what other suggestions can you give to overcome financial problem? List two (please answer within 20 words.)
1.they don’t worry what happened to you
2.①Sell a car ②Make phone plans ③Quit smoking (Bring your lunch)
3.戒烟是一个具有挑战性的逐渐的变化过程, 但却能给你带来即时利益和长远利益,最重要的是对你身体有好处,还可以省钱。
4.How to change lifestyle to save money.
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