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牛津版（深圳·广州）初中英语九年级下册Module 3 Unit 6同步练习3
One weekend, Taylor, an eight-year-old girl, went shopping with herparents. She asked her parents to buy a toy she wanted. Instead of giving hermoney to buy the toy, Taylor's father encouraged her to make moneyby herself. ＂How can I make money?＂Taylor thought for a while and had an idea, ＂Why not make cakes and sell them at church to raise money to buy thetoy?＂
The next day, Taylor started her plan. She first needed some money fortools and materials. So she borrowed $40 from her parents and promised to payit back. Then she began to make cakes by herself. To her parents'surprise, she made $175 by selling the cakes that Sunday.
Everyone thought Taylor would buy the toy she wanted. She certainly hadmade enough money for it, but she didn't. Instead, Taylordecided to buy business cards and had her father's phone number on them. Then she began handing thecards out. More people knew Taylor and came to buy her cakes. Even largecompanies began to try buying her delicious cakes.
Though Taylor has made a lot of money, she still works hard at school.She also likes to take part in other activities. So Taylor must carefullymanage her time. For example, instead of watching TV after school, Taylor mighthave to bake(烘焙) a lot of cakes for customers. When she has dance lessons on somedays, she needs to get her baking done on time so she isn'tlate for class.
Making cakes may take time and be hard work, but Taylor sees the fun init. ＂Ithink making cakes is mostly my hobby.＂ she says. Shealso decorates(装饰) the boxes that are used to pack thecakes. Taylor uses all kinds of decorations to make sure each box looks specialfor her customers. People love the extra feeling Taylor gives them bydecorating the boxes, so more and more people come for her cakes.
Taylor's cakes are becoming very popular. Sheachieves a sweet success.
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