Li Fei is my new pen pal. She is   21  Singapore. Singapore is a small but beautiful   22 in Southeast Asia(東南亞).It is   23   and has green plants everywhere, so people also call it “Garden City” in the world.
Li Lei is a    24  girl. She is a student in No.6 Middle School in Singapore. She speaks English   25   .And she can also speak   26  Chinese. Her favorite 27   at school is history. She thinks it is very interesting. Li Lei likes 28   very much. She wants to have a dog as a pet, but she can’t,   29  her parents don’t like animals. She is very sad about this. Li Lei likes China very much. She hopes to   30   China very much.              

In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(經(jīng)濟(jì)蕭條), many have learnt to live  16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She  17  a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned  18  $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be  19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still  20  $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in  21  expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the  22  cost small. For people, that  23  housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was  24 . When she ate  25 , she went to cheap restaurants.  26  she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often  27  a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the  28  for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even  29  to take two trips, one to the Netherlands,  30  to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.