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Seven Financial Tips from the Great Depression

Having lived through the Depression, our grandparents and great-grandparents formed a lack of trust in banks and turned to burying cash in the backyard or hiding it under the mattress. Our current economic downturn doesn’t yet call for such drastic measures but there are things we can learn from those who went through this challenging era and prospered.
Food: Grow a Garden
Growing at least some of your own food can save a lot of money, and provide the satisfaction that comes from eating local, really local. Consider starting a community garden such as the Depression-era community relief gardens, or the World War II Victory Gardens, searching step-by-step instructions on the Internet, and applying those ideas to any project that you can implement on someone’s vacant lot (with permission ).
Entertainment: Enjoying the Simple Things
Not everything about the Depressi

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Having lived through the Depression, our grandparents and great-grandparents formed a lack of trust in banks and turned to burying cash in the backyard or hiding it under the mattress. Our current economic downturn doesn’t yet call for such drastic measures but there are things we can learn from those who went through this challenging era and prospered.
Food: Grow a Garden
Growing at least some of your own food can save a lot of money, and provide the satisfaction that comes from eating local, really local. Consider starting a community garden such as the Depression-era community relief gardens, or the World War II Victory Gardens, searching step-by-step instructions on the Internet, and applying those ideas to any project that you can implement on someone’s vacant lot (with permission ).
Entertainment: Enjoying the Simple Things
Not everything about the Depressi
A. enrich our life
B. provide a satisfaction of enjoying the local food
C. practice some basic ideas
D. make big profits as well

[单项选择]In times of financial depression, their market manager turned his ______ from this company to their main competitor.
A. fright
B. allegiance
C. destination
D. allowance

[单项选择]What did the seven Russian submariners suffer from
A. A lack of oxygen and low temperature.
B. Heavy fever.
C. Faint and headache.
D. Hunger and cold.

[简答题]Finally, many great players come from the same kind of neighborhood--a poor, crowded area where a boy’s dream is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or businessman, but to become a rich, famous. athlete or entertainer. (Passage Four)

[单项选择]What do we learn about the Great Chicago Fire from the conversation
A. It was in 1893 when Chicago was still a small town.
B. It broke out when Chicago wasn’t even forty years old.
C. It didn’t ’affect Chicago significantly.
D. It was in 1871 when Chicago was fourteen years old.

[填空题]The Great Depression spread from the US to the rest of the capitalist world, yet it affected the Americans the most. It gave (66) to the fear that such catastrophes would (67) (occur)or even that the American economy would live in a s (68) of permanent depression unless radical changes were m (69) in the economic system. The fear is now gone, partly because that analysis was judged faulty. Changes in institutions and policies that sta (70) the economy also helped to dispel those fears. People’s worry per (71) about the possibility of less severe, but still debilitating (使虚弱) , recessions, (72) But the experience of the postwar years has provided two lessons;
First, the only serious recessions in which US unemployment rose to highs of 9 percent and 11 percent re (73) , came after fairly high inflation. Second, even recessions of that depth later on t (74) out to be less painful than h