They are living with their parents for the moment because their own house ____.A. is being rebuiltB. has been rebuiltC. is rebuiltD. has rebuilt

Ways to FightRising Food Prices Food, clothing and shelter generally top the list of basic human needs. While shopping at a discount store instead of the mall generally takes care of the clothing issue, and living in a small apartment instead of a McMansion can address your housing situation, rising world food prices can lead to some significant challenges in the food department. Everything from rising transportation costs to the development of biofuels pushes up the cost of food and put a pinch on consumers’ wallets. While the need to eat isn’t something you can avoid, you can take steps to keep the costs in check.Eat at home Dining out is expensive. Just about any nutritious meal that you buy in a formal restaurant can be made at home for a fraction of tile price. Even good coffee is cheaper to make if you do it yourself. Fast food is excluded from the category, as high-calorie, low-quality food can be a bargain price, but the impact on your long-term health overrides the benefit of short-term savings.Shop with a plan If you stumble around the grocery store and fill your cart with everything that catches your eye, chances are you will spend a lot more money than you need to. To minimize your cash outlay (支出), prepare a shopping list before you leave home. Plan your meals for the week ahead, and make careful note of what you need to buy in order to prepare those meals. Once the list is made, purchase only the items on the list, and avoid impulse buys.Eat before you shop When you are hungry and you walk into a building full of food, you’re likely to fill your cart with unnecessary and expensive purchases that appeal to your taste buds. To keep your costs down, eat first and shop on a full stomach.Put on blinders Grocery stores are designed to make you go through a maze to get to the most basic items in the hope that you will make a few impulse buys along the way. If you keep to your planned list, you won’t be tempted when you get forced down the junk food aisle to get at the milk. Because most necessities and basic cooking items are found along the outside edge of the store, start there and work your way around the perimeter and step into the maze only to grab any leftover items on your list.Avoid prepared foods Our fast-paced society encourages convenience, and grocery stores have capitalized on this trend. Ready-made meals are easy to buy, but they come with a premium price tag. Instead of putting that rotisserie chicken and macaroni salad in your cart, buy the ingredients and prepare the meal yourself. The same concept applies to frozen entrées, baked goods and any other foods that have been prepared in some way for added convenience.Buy in bulk Bulk buying can save you a significant amount of money. Pay attention to the prices and pick up the family-size package if the per-unit cost is lower and you have a place to store it. Shopping at big-box bulk retailers like Sam’s Club and Costco can also save on your bill if you shop there frequently enough to cover the cost of membership, but pay careful attention to your spending habits. The big boxes are often no bargain compared with sale prices and coupon savings at other stores. In addition, they may encourage you to buy more than you need, driving up your grocery bill.Use store reward cards If the store you visit most frequently has a reward card, be sure to sign up. In some cases, stores raise their prices when they offer reward cards, and without the card your bill will certainly be higher. If the reward card offers other benefits, such as a ham for the holidays or a discount on gasoline, be sure to maximize your benefits by paying attention to the cutoffdates on such offers and cashing in your points before they expire.Use coupons Coupons provide an easy way to save money. Clip them and cash them in, paying particular attention to stores that double the value of manufacturers’ coupons. A number of websites also offer coupons exclusively, and they are a great place to search for discounts on the items you have on your list. If you frequent the websites of your favorite brands, they will often offer discounts to their faithful customers. A few minutes of surfing online can make a big difference at the register.Buy locally Locally grown or produced food is often available at a lower price because you don’t pay for long transportation costs. Farmers markets, fairs and the local aisle at your grocery store are all game for deals on tasty and fresh food.Look down Stores often place the most-expensive items at eye level. To find less-expensive items, look down. Also, by searching the area around brand-name foods, you can often find a cheaper generic (没有商标的) alternative. Generic label products are often nearly identical to name-brand goods (in fact, they’re often produced in the same factory), so don’t pay for packaging when what you really want is the food inside.Compare prices and stores Some consumers often have trouble calculating the perunit cost in their heads, but it’s something that gets a lot easier with practice. You can even carry a calculator. Looking at the brands and comparing prices is an easy way to shave a few cents off most purchases. The store that features the lowest average prices in your area is often the best place for routine shopping, but the higher-priced competitor may run sales on specific items that beat the cost at your most frequented venue. Watch for these sales and take advantage of them when possible. Watch ’best before’ and ’sell by’ dates As the sell-by or best-before date approaches, you are virtually guaranteed a discount. For example, grocery stores lower prices as meat ages. Ask the butcher when the meats get marked down. Most stores have a fairly regular schedule that you can learn and follow. When you get a good deal, stock your freezer so you can avoid buying when the price is high. And if you plan on freezing the food, "best before" dates shouldn’t worry you; the product will stay fine until you thaw and cook it.Substitute recipe items If you have a higher-priced item that recurs in your favorite recipes, it may be time to shake up your taste buds. Often a lower-priced alternative can be found. For instance, if you consistently bake with olive oil and you see that the price has skyrocketed, a simple switch to applesauce can make for a cheap and low-fat substitute in many recipes.Check your bill Electronic scanners make checkout faster and more convenient, but scanners aren’t perfect. Get in the habit of taking a look at the receipt to make sure your coupons and discounts were taken into account.Pay in cash When you put groceries on your credit card and don’t pay off the card in full each month, you pay interest on the balance. To avoid this extra cost, pay in cash when you shop and keep necessities off your credit cards.To maximize the benefits of store reward cards, people should ______. A. buy a bit more than they need in the holidaysB. visit the stores as frequently as possibleC. exchange their points when they are still validD. try to pay in cash instead of by credit cards

2.填空题A___area has houses rather than offices or factories. It is where people live. (resident)

Please write an essay on "over-dependence on smartphones", and use several examples to support your thesis statement.

Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind If you’re gearing up for a job search now as an undergraduate or returning student, there are several bright spots where new jobs and promising career paths are expected to emerge in the next few years. Technology, health care and education will continue to be hot job sectors, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ outlook for job growth between 2008 and 2018. But those and other fields will yield new opportunities, and even some tried-and-true fields will bring some new jobs that will combine a variety of skill sets. The degrees employers say they’ll most look for include finance, engineering and computer science, says Andrea Koncz, employment-information manager at the National Association of Colleges and Employers. But to land the jobs that will see some of the most growth, job seekers will need to branch out and pick up secondary skills or combine hard science study with softer skills, career experts say, which many students already are doing. "Students are positioned well for future employment, particularly in specialized fields." Ms. Koncz says. Career experts say the key to securing jobs in growing fields will be coupling an in-demand degree with expertise in emerging trends. For example, communications pros will have to master social media and the analytics that come with it; nursing students will have to learn about risk management and electronic records; and techies will need to keep up with the latest in Web marketing, user-experience design and other Web-related skills. More than two million new technology-related jobs are expected to be created by 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jobs that are expected to grow faster than average include computer-network administrators, data-communications analysts and Web developers. Recruiters anticipate that data-loss prevention, information technology, online security and risk management will also show strong growth. A computer science degree and a working knowledge of data security are critical to landing these jobs. Common areas of undergraduate study for these fields include some of the usual suspects, such as computer science, information science and management-information systems. But those might not be enough. That’s because not all of those jobs will be purely techie in nature. David Foote, chief executive officer of IT research firm Foote Partners, advises current computer science students to couple their degrees with studies in marketing, accounting or finance. "Before, people widely believed that all you needed to have were deep, nerdy (对社会无用的) skills," Mr. Foote says. "But companies are looking for people with multiple skill sets who can move fluidly with marketing or operations." Social media has opened the door to the growth of new kinds of jobs. As companies turn to sites like Twitter, Linked In and Face book to promote their brands, capture new customers and even post job openings, they will need to hire people skilled in harnessing these tools, Mr. Foote says. In most cases, these duties will be folded into a marketing position, although large companies such as Coca-Cola Co. arc creating entire teams devoted exclusively to social media. Similarly, employment for public-relations positions should increase 24% by 2018. Job titles like interactive creative director will reflect the duality of the required skill sets. Students will have to study strategy to maximize relationships between third-party content providers and their company’s Web team. Other key skills will be search engine optimization to maximize Web traffic and marketing analytics to decipher the company’s target demographic, says Donna Farrugia, executive director of Creative Group, a marketing and advertising staffing agency in Menlo Park, Calif. Many universities and community colleges are offering certification programs focused on burgeoning (萌芽的) sectors. For example, the University of California at Los Angeles’s extension program offers a certificate in information design. That program, like similar certificate studies at other schools, aims to give students an edge in Web site search optimization―a major attraction for Web-based companies who want to boost user traffic, says Cathy Sandeen, dean of UCLA’s extension program. User-experience design―a sort of architecture for information that Web viewers see―is another emerging field. Jobs there include experience specialists and product designers at firms ranging from computer-game companies to c-commerce Web sites. Ms. Sandeen says the school will offer a certificate program for user-experience design as well, at a cost of about 3000 to 5000. The program will run one to two years, depending on a student’s schedule, and will couple product design with consumer psychology and behavior. "Our students will learn to think like anthropologists, evaluating how easy it is to utilize the products," she says. Not surprisingly, green technology, including solar and wind energy and green construction, are also booming areas. Engineers who can mastermind high-voltage (高压) electric grids (电网), for example, will have a great advantage over other job applicants, says Greg Netland, who oversees recruiting for the US, Latin America and Canada for Sapphire Technologies, an IT staffing firm in Woburn, Mass. that is a division of Randstad. "Global sustainability will become more important to employers," Mr. Netland says. "It cuts costs, making experts in the field highly attractive to employers. " Despite the slashing of positions seen in the financial sector during the economic crisis, recruiters also expect thousands of new jobs to be created in the compliance field, says Dawn Fay, district New York/New Jersey president of Robert Half International. Ms. Fay counsels job seekers to look at the misdeeds of the past year or two to identify where new jobs will bloom in the financial sector. "It was a year of Ponzi schemes and banking meltdowns," she says. "Be strategic and position yourself as someone who can mitigate those risks." That makes risk management an emerging specialty with strong growth in jobs expected. Those on track to be financial analysts can get additional certification in risk management through organizations like the Risk Management Association or the Risk and Insurance Management Society. Hospital Upgrades Health care is expected to continue to see a surge in hiring, with more than four million new openings estimated by 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hiring for physical and occupational therapists will likely be strongest. But new specialties are popping up, particularly in case management, says Brad Ellis, a partner with Kaye Bassman International, an executive search firm based in Piano. Texas. Case managers do everything from managing the flow of information between practitioner and insurance company to mitigating risk to the hospital. "If you’re a licensed nurse, for example, getting a certificate in risk management from the state board of health would make you extremely competitive." Mr. Ellis says. Harris Miller. president of the Career College Association in Washington, D. C., says IT will be increasingly important in the quest to drive down health care costs, too. Students specializing in nursing informatics, which combines general nursing with computer and information sciences, at the master’s degree level will swap a clipboard for a smart phone to manage patient data. Schools like Vanderbilt University are offering nursing informatics degrees via distance learning, and certification is offered through American Nurses Credentialing Center. The strong push toward making medical records and information more accessible through computerized recordkeeping means opportunity, Mr. Miller says. "This is going to require people who are skilled in the hardware and software of nursing informatics.Universities and colleges offer certification programs or studies to ______. A．enable students to be competitive in Web site search optimizationB．attract Web-based companies to send employees back to schoolC．maximize relationships between them and Web-based companiesD．boost reputation, extend influence and maximize revenue

Dad, this is Tom and this is Mike. _____ are my new friends.A. TheyB. ThemC. TheirD. Theirs

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英文论文的致谢部分可以感谢个人对作者的情感支持。（）A. 错B. 对

Robert promised me that he me a hand when I was in trouble but he failed me.A. would giveB. will giveC. had givenD. has given