It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spendin

It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.
Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.
Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.
The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some
specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.
【小题1】 The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means . A．赠品B．奢侈品C．特价商品D．圣诞礼品【小题2】We can have more choices to get a good deal . A．on the Internet B．in specialty stores C．from salesmenD．from retailers【小题3】In this passage the writer wants to . A．tell us to shop onlineB．tell us the best way to do shoppingC．show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping D．give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time【小题4】 From the passage we can infer (推断) that . A．people are surely able to get a good deal on FridayB．it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less moneyC．retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas giftsD．with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect giftsC

(答案→)C 解析：【主旨大意】文章主要建议了圣诞节应该怎样购买礼物及要注意的问题。【小题1】词义猜测题。由第二段知在圣诞节的第一个星期五购物的少，许多零售商提供“特价商品”，来促销。【小题1】细节理解题。由文章第二段最后一句可知。【小题1】主旨大意题。请参考【主旨大意】。【小题1】推理判断题。从第三段最后一句和第二段及最后一段提到的“特价商品”可知。

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