Young Min Kim，a journalist from Students around the world，interviews an American university student，Lisa Conroy．They talk about living on a student budget（预算）

Young Min: Thanks for talking with me today，Lisa．Tell us a little bit about yourself．

Lisa: Well，I’m twenty-one，and I’m a junior 2 at a university in Chicago．

Young Min: How are you paying for your college education?

Lisa: The costs for every semester are about $15，000．At the start of each semester my parents pay the $10，000 tuition（学费）．I also get $2，000 in financial aid（助学金）．I have to make money for the rest by myself．

Young Min: How do you do that?

Lisa: I have a part-time job at a hotel．I work about twenty hours a week，and make about $320．

Young Min: How do you spend that money?

Lisa: It helps to pay for my room．It also pays for things like my mobile phone transportation and clothes．

Lisa: That’s true! I keep my budget carefully so I don’t have to borrow．I don’t like to borrow money from people．

Young Min: You don’t have much money for fun，do you?

Lisa: I hardly ever go to the movies．My roommate and I usually rent（租） videos．

     and share the cost, so it’s cheaper.

Young Min: How else do you save money?

Lisa: I don’t go to restaurants．I make meals with my roommates so it’s cheaper to eat．I try to walk or ride my bicycle to college．Oh ，and I buy a lot of my clothes at second-hand stores．You can find some very cheap，decent clothes in those stores．

Young Min: So much for this．Thank you．

Lisa: You are welcome!

1．Lisa’s parents pay _________ in tuition each semester．

A．$15，000               B．$10，000                C．$5，000                 D．$2，000

2．Lisa has a part-time job at a __________

A．restaurant               B．theater                    C．hotel                       D．campus

3．Some of Lisa’s costs include __________．

A．mobile phone，books and clothes

B．food，computer games and transportation

C．restaurants，clothes and cars

D．transportation，clothes and medicine．

4．Lisa tries to keep a budget so she doesn’t have to __________

A．buy cheap clothes                                       B．ride her bicycle

C．borrow money                                           D．buy clothes at second-hand stores

5．The title for the passage should be ________．

A．Making money                                           B．saving money

C．Spending money                                        D．My money

When I was a kid, my dad worked in a shop in the center of our town. Sometimes, I went to the shop with him and I made a little pocket money by buying things for his workmates. But I never paid attention to all the things and people around me.

One day, as my dad and I were driving to the shop, I looked out of the window of the car and I saw an old man standing at the street corner. There was a rose in his hand, he was smelling the rose. For some reason, our eyes met and we looked at each other for about twenty seconds. There was nothing unusual about this man but the meet was unusual to me. Up to that moment in my life, I had given no thought to anyone on the street, in shops or anywhere else. I had no interest out of my family.

But I was interested in that old man. For the first time I had interest in a stranger. What kind of life had he lived? Where had he been in his time?

Once a great man encouraged us to “stop and smell the rose”. Now I want to tell these words to you. Stop what you are busy with and try to fully understand things and people in your eyesight. If you don’t care about others on your road of life, then you are missing your life itself.

1.How did the writer make a little pocket money?

2.What was the old man doing when I saw him?

3.When did the writer have interest out of his family?

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

When I was a kid, my dad worked in a shop in the center of our town. Sometimes, I went to the shop with him and I made a little pocket money by buying things for his workmates. But I never paid attention to all the things and people around me.
One day, as my dad and I were driving to the shop, I looked out of the window of the car and I saw an old man standing at the street corner. There was a rose in his hand, he was smelling the rose. For some reason, our eyes met and we looked at each other for about twenty seconds. There was nothing unusual about this man but the meet was unusual to me. Up to that moment in my life, I had given no thought to anyone on the street, in shops or anywhere else. I had no interest out of my family.
But I was interested in that old man. For the first time I had interest in a stranger. What kind of life had he lived? Where had he been in his time?
Once a great man encouraged us to “stop and smell the rose”. Now I want to tell these words to you. Stop what you are busy with and try to fully understand things and people in your eyesight. If you don’t care about others on your road of life, then you are missing your life itself.
【小题1】How did the writer make a little pocket money?