It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.

Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.

Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.

The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some

specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.

1. The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.

A. 赠品            B. 奢侈品            C. 特价商品          D. 圣诞礼品

2.We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

A. on the Internet    B. in specialty stores   C. from salesmen        D. from retailers

3.In this passage the writer wants to ______.

A. tell us to shop online                      

B. tell us the best way to do shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D. give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

4. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ______.

A. people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday

B. it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money

C. retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts

D. with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts

 

One morning Mrs Petty said to her husband, “Jack, there’s a meeting of our Ladies Club at Mrs Young’s house at lunchtime today, and I want to go there. I’ll leave you some food for your lunch. Is that all right?

“Oh, yes.” her husband answered, “That’s quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?”

“This tin of fish.” Mrs Petty said, “And there are some eggs and vegetables and some bread here, too.”

“Good.” said Mr Petty. Then Mrs Petty went to her meetings. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs Young’s house and at 3 o’clock Mrs Petty came home.

“Was your fish nice, Jack?” She asked.

“Yes, but my feet are hurting.” He answered.

“Why are they hurting?” Mrs Petty asked.

“Well, on the tin was written ---OPEN THE TIN AND STAND IN HOT WATER FOR FIVE MINUTES.”

1.Mrs Petty wanted to ________.

A. visit her old friends           B. go to Mrs Young’s house

C. have a dinner in the restaurant   D. have lunch by herself.

2.Mr Petty had to _____  .

A. buy some food himself         B. cook dinner for Mrs Petty  

C. have lunch at a restaurant       D. have lunch by himself at home

3.Mrs Petty had her lunch    __    .

A. at home                    B. with her husband  

C. in Mrs Young’s house         D. in Jack’s house

4.Mr Petty’s feet were hurting because ________.

A. the tin of fish hurt his feet.

B. he fell down and hurt his feet.        

C. he himself stood in hot water for 5 minutes.

D. his wife didn’t tell him how to open the tin.

5.In the last sentence, “STAND” means ________.

        A. put         B. push          C. send           D. sink (浸)

 

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