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.

    This is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} room. Her computer is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the desk. And the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} is very nice. Some pictures are on the desk, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Some model planes {#blank#}5{#/blank#} on the chairs. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} ball is under the chair. Her {#blank#}7{#/blank#} are in the desk. But {#blank#}8{#/blank#} is her schoolbag? Oh, it's on the sofa. What's on her bed? It's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} English book. It's a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} room.

    About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} from the other villages and towns. They had few {#blank#}2{#/blank#} and none of them left the village. Of course there was neither electricity(电) nor gas(煤气) there.

    Once a writer{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the village. The backwardness(落后) of the village surprised him. He decided {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home and village to the people. Several months {#blank#}5{#/blank#} he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in the city.

    “Everything is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in London,” the old man said, “I've {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not {#blank#}9{#/blank#} at night. ”

    “What happened to you?” his wife asked.

    “The{#blank#}10{#/blank#}was on in my bedroom all the time.”

    “Why not blow it out, then?”

    “I tried, but it was inside a little glass bottle.”

    Helen is my good friend. She taught{#blank#}1{#/blank#} English when I attended a training course two years ago. Helen was always ready for the lessons, and she {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her best to make her classes lively. I used to be poor in English, especially in written English. But now I'm able to write letters and reports{#blank#}3{#/blank#} in English. I still remember{#blank#}4{#/blank#} she helped me with my English patiently. Teachers' Day is coming. I'm going to send her a card and give her my best {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.