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d discounts on clothes of this spring, hold off until Memorial Day weekend. You can also look for online and in store savings at Amazon, Macy’s , Saks Fifth Avenue and other retailers. 21. Which things offer discounts in March according to the text? A. Frozen food and new cars. B. Boxed chocolates and new cars. C. Frozen food and boxed chocolates. D. Boxed chocolates and spring clothing. 22. What does the author advise us to do? A. Register on a site. B. Attend a holiday event. C. Consult people in our areas, D. Look for discount information online. 23. Which of the following festivals is celebrated after March? A. Memorial Day. B. National Frozen Food Month. C. National Chocolate Caramel Day. D. National ChocolateCovered Raisin Day. B Throughout the past few years, I have tried to give myself to others. I have bounced around to find where I truly fit in. I found my place while I stayed in Guatemala, an orphanage (孤兒院 ), with the children living there. Through hearing many stories of their lives, I was moved to tears and started to question my living ways and gave up everything that wasn’t essential: makeup and any other sort of luxury ( 奢侈品 ). I lived like they did. It was the most relaxing feeling in the world. When at Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos, we were given the task of creating a pig pen. At first, I thought it should be easy. After arriving at the area where the pig pen should be, we saw a hill. We were told to uproot the weeds as well as level the entire area. Looking at it, we felt it would be impossible. On my own faith journey, I have felt this type of doubt before. The “hole” , as we referred to, is a symbol of my faith journey. It appeared to be an obstacle I could not overe, but in the end I pleted it with efforts. I feel this pig pen wasn’t easy to create but was so rewarding to give. I’ve always struggled to be on a journey of faith , but I’ve never pletely stepped foot onto the path until Guatemala. I’ve always tried to open my heart to everyone around me and give them my love. I feel as though I cut open my heart and share every bit of love I had with these orphans. There is one orphan named Ceto who will always remain very close to my heart. In Guatemale, I sponsor with thirty dollars a month, but it doesn’t seem enough . I’l l return there next summer and give more of my love for a whole month. When it was time to leave, I looked out of the window and saw not just ordinary children. Overall, the most significant acplishment I made in Guatemala was stepping towards my own faith journey and not looking back. 24. What resulted in the author’s decision to live a new life? A. Desire to help others. B. Decrease in his ine. C. A knowledge of the orphans’ life. D. Awareness of the difficulty in his life. 25. What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. Removing the doubt. B. Uprooting the weed. C. Starting the faith journey. D. Creating the pig pen. 26. What did the author think of his experience in Guatemala? B. It was meaningful. A. It was regretful. D. It was frightening. C. It was interesting. 27. What may be the best title for the text? B. An Awful Faith Journey A. A Step into a New World D. A Return of Confidence C. A Great Success in Life C Could the device, smartphone or PC, which you’re using affect the moral decisions you make when using it? To test it, researchers presented multiple dilemmas to a sample set of 1,010 people. The participants were assigned a device at random. One case of the questions participants were asked is the classic “trolley ( 有軌電車(chē) ) problem”: A runaway trolley is he aded towards five people tied up on a set of train tracks. You can do nothing, resulting in the deaths of five people, or push a man off a bridge, which will stop the trolley. The practical response is to kill one man to save five lives, which percent of smartphone users chose, pared to percent of PC users. “What we found in our study is that when people used a smartphone to view classic moral problems, they were more likely to make more unemotional, reasonable decisions when presented with a highly emotional dilemma, ”Dr Albert Barque Duran, the lead author of the study, told City, University of London. “This could be due to the increased time pressure often present with smartphones and also the increased psychological distance which can occur when we use such devices pared to PCs.” As for why the researchers started this study, Dr BarqueDuran noted, “Due to the fact that our social lives, work and even