Maybe you always wonder why your pocket money disappeared so quickly. Well, this may be {#blank#}1{#/blank#}you don't have a careful plan. If you try a budget for your pocket money, you will find you can stop money {#blank#}2{#/blank#} going so fast. A budget is a plan to control where your money {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(go) . Careful budget can help you save for the things you want but can't pay for just now. Useful or not? Look at the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (follow) before you start your budget:

● Every month there are things we have to pay for, like school lunches and buses，which are{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (important).There are also things we would like to spend money on — just for fun! All these are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (month) expenses (开销).

● Since we can't have money for everything, we have to make {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (choose). We need to ask if we really need something or just want it. Needs are what you must have in order to live, like food and water. Wants are things you would like to have or do, but not necessary. For example, CDs and cartoons.

● List what you must spend on needs — and if there is money left, you will save for things you really want. This {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (call) a budget.

● If you don't have enough money for what you need, you may have to give up one for the other. No budget is fixed. Keep an eye on  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (you). Maybe you wanted a cartoon book but now you want{#blank#}10{#/blank#} MP3 . Your needs may change into wants, or your wants may change into needs.

A: Hello, Cathy! What were you doing at nine last night?

B: I was reading a book. How about you?

A: I was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} you at that time.

B: Really? Sorry, but I didn't {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your telephone.

A: What book were you reading?

B: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is very interesting.

A: Was your sister {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, too?

B: No, she wasn't. She was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} with her pet dog.

A: That {#blank#}5{#/blank#} interesting.

B: Where were your parents at that time?

A: My parents were at home. And my mother was watching TV.

    Before leaving the university, I was busy looking for a job. It was very difficult to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a job in the big city. I had been refused for many times. Then {#blank#}2{#/blank#} day I got the news in the local newspaper. It said, "Find over ten wrong words in the newspaper, and you can work as an editor (编辑). "I loved literature (文学) and had finished {#blank#}3{#/blank#} several articles for the newspaper. So I decided to have a try. But it was the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} date when I saw the newspaper. What's more, a friend of mine said, "Today is April Fool's Day. It may just be an April Fool's joke. A fool may take it {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. "I was very disappointed. However, I still made a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to have a try.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#} that day, I knew I was the only applicant (申请者). I got an important lesson from the experience. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} something that seems impossible, we need to have a try. Only then, may we have a chance to make something impossible possible.

    Last night, Dave met Tina. They {#blank#}1{#/blank#}about their last weekend. For Dave, the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} was very nice. On Saturday, he{#blank#}3{#/blank#}for the history test. On Sunday, he watched a (an) {#blank#}4{#/blank#} TV play. "It was great!" he said. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Tina's weekend wasn't very good. She was really   tired because she had a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} weekend. She went shopping on Saturday morning and read a book {#blank#}7{#/blank#} music on Saturday afternoon. She visited {#blank#}8{#/blank#} grandmother on Saturday evening. On Sunday, she wrote {#blank#}9{#/blank#} new song for the school music festival. It was a little {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, so she asked her mother for help.