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听力原文： W: If you're in your 20s, you own your first car, your career is more or less launched, and you're starting to look forward to owning a home. But you're worried, too. Perhaps you've got some debt. You probably don't have much in the way of savings. And with all your expenses, it doesn't look you'll be able to improve that situation soon.
If you wonder how to cut corners, there's an obvious place to look—at your spending habits.
Do you buy a soda each weekend？ Waste ＄1 a day for 40 years and, when you're set to retire, you'll find your account is short by ＄190,000. Grab a calculator and you'll discover that, over 40 years going out to dinner twice a month at ＄40 each time amounts to half a million. Even a pack—a day cigarette habit will lighten your retirement account by ＄330,000. And the same with cable TV and those cool earrings. They will probably amount to as much as one million.
So, the first clue to accumulating wealth is this: focus on your spending habits. Here are a couple of tricks to help you save even if you swear you can't afford to. Stop buying things that fall rather than rise in value. Pay yourself first: Before you pay the monthly bills, send ＄25 to a mutual fund. Stop spending coins. From now on, spend only paper currency, and keep the change every day. Get your family involved, and you'll double your savings. Use discount tickets at the supermarket—but use them correctly. How？ If you really want to make these tickets worthwhile, you actually must invest into your mutual fund the amount you save by using the tickets. Otherwise, you're wasting your time—and your money.
According to the speaker, what should one pay special attention to if he wants to save up？
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College sports in the United States are a huge deal. Almost all major American universities have football, baseball, basketball and hockey programs, and 【21】______ millions of dollars each year to sports. Most of them earn millions 【22】______ as well. in television revenues, sponsorships. They also benefit 【23】______ from the added publicity they get via their teams. Big-name universities 【24】______ each other in the most popular sports. Football games at Michigan regularly 【25】______ crowds of over 90,000. Basketball's national collegiate championship game is a TV 【26】______ on a par with (与…相同或相似) any other sporting event in the United States, 【27】______ perhaps the Super Bowl itself. At any given time during fall or winter one can 【28】______ one's TV set and see the top athletic programs—from schools like Michigan, UCLA, Duke and Stanford — 【29】______ 29in front of packed houses and national TV audiences.
The athletes themselves are 【30】______ and provided with scholarships. College coaches identify 【31】______ teenagers and then go into high schools to 【32】______ the country's best players to attend their universities. There are strict rules about 【33】______ coaches can recruit—no recruiting calls after 9 p. m., only one official visit to a campus—hut they are often bent and sometimes 【34】______ . Top college football programs 【35】______ scholarships to 20 or 30 players each year, and those student-athletes, when they arrive 【36】______ campus, receive free housing, tuition, meals, books, etc.
In return, the players 【37】______ the program in their sport. Football players at top colleges 【38】______ two hours a day, four days a week from January to April. In summer, it's back to strength and agility training four days a week until mid-August, when camp 【39】______ and preparation for the opening of the September-to-December season begins 【40】______ . During the season, practices last two or three hours a day from Tuesday to Friday. Saturday is game day. Mondays are an officially mandated day of rest.
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