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.

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    It's not easy to let young people accept the ways of the old. It's becoming e{#blank#}1{#/blank#} more difficult in the face of new technologies. So officers gathered in Wuhan, Hubei Province that is proved to be good at m{#blank#}2{#/blank#} children interested in tradition. They shared some lessons. As we all know, many students know little about traditional things. Officers d{#blank#}3{#/blank#} how to make local operas popular in elementary and middle schools. Officers also agreed that every student should get the chance to w{#blank#}4{#/blank#} a traditional opera show for free every year.

    The work of the theatre was divided into three p{#blank#}5{#/blank#}: speech, teaching and performance. By the end of November, about 146 e{#blank#}6{#/blank#} of these kinds were held. Opera artists are often invited to schools to communicate with students and teachers. Traditional opera lessons are t{#blank#}7{#/blank#} in more than 80 percent of its elementary and middle schools. More than 6,600 opera shows were performed at schools that year, and that was h{#blank#}8{#/blank#} praised by students and parents.

    In this way students can have a taste of the traditional beauty of China. "At first I was afraid these events could be a distract (分心) from study. Now I r{#blank#}9{#/blank#} that our children have learned a lot from them," said one parent of No.71 Middle School. One of the officers said o{#blank#}10{#/blank#} parts of the country could learn some lessons from Hubei Province's experiences. They hope students all over China will have the chance to learn the art of traditional operas by the end of 2018.