Never go into a supermarket hungry! This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping for food before lunchtime, you’ll probably buy more than you plan to. Unfortunately, however, just this advice isn’t enough for shoppers these days. Modern shoppers need an education in how and how not to buy things at the store. First, you check the weekly newspaper ads. Find out the items that are on sale and decide if you really need these things. In other words, don’t buy anything just because it’s cheaper than usual! Second, never let “New and Improved!” or “All Natural” on the front of a package influence you. Instead, read the list of contents on the back. Third，compare prices: that is, you should examine the prices of both different brands(品牌)and different sizes of the same brand.
Another suggestion for shoppers is to buy ordinary items instead of famous brands. Ordinary items in supermarkets come in plain packages. These products are cheaper because producers don’t spend much money on packing or advertising. However, they are still of high quality. In the same way, in buying clothes, you can often find high quality and low prices in brands that are not famous. Shopping in discount clothing stores can help you save a lot of money. Although these stores aren’t very attractive, and they usually do not have individual dressing rooms, not only are the prices low, but you can often find the same famous brands that you find in high-priced department stores.
Wise shoppers read magazine ads and watch TV commercials(商業(yè)廣告)，but they do this with one advantage: knowledge of the psychology behind the ads. In other words, will-informed shoppers watch for information and check for misinformation. They ask themselves questions: Is the advertiser hiding something in small print at the bottom of the page? Is there any real information in the commercial, or is the advertiser simply showing an attractive image? With the answers to these questions, shoppers can make a wise choice.
【小題1】 The author gives ________ suggestions to the shoppers in the passage.

Ashley Smith is a single young mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man      her to her door, and put a gun to her side. “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really     ,” she said in a TV interview last week.
The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He      at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11^th. The police were      him.
Nichols tied Smith up with a rope, but set her free after she begged him not to take her     again and again. “I told him      he hurt me, my little girl wouldn’t have a mummy,” she said with tears.
“I just talked to him and tried to      believe me,” Smith said. She asked Nichols     he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and      asked him to do so.”
Smith even      for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was      when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing      looking for him. “I cannot      that’s me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what he      do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don’t, more people are going to get    . Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.

One day，a man telephoned Norman Vincent Peale．He was in great depression （沮喪，意氣消沉）and told Morman that he had nothing left to live for．Peale invited the man to his office．“Everything is gone，and I'm hopeless，”the mall told him．”I'm living in the deepest darkness．In fact，I've lost heart for living altogether．’’

    Norman Vincent Peale smiled sympathetically（同情地）．”Let’s take a look at your situation，”he said calmly．On a piece of paper he drew a straight line down the middle．He suggested that they list on the left side the things the man had lost，and on the right, the things that had been left．”You won't need that column（欄；列）on the right side，”said the man sadly．”I have nothing left．”

Peale asked，”When did your wife leave you?”

 ”What do you mean? She hasn't left me．My wire loves me!”

    ”That's great said Peale enthusiastically（熱情地）．”Then that will be number one in the right-hand column：Wife hasn't left．Now, when were your children put into prison?”

    ”That's a silly question．My children aren't in prison!”

    ”Good! That's number two in the right-hand column：Children not in prison．”said Peale，writing it down．

After a few more questions in the same column，the man finally got the point and smiled in spite of himself（不由自主地）．”Funny，how things change when you think of them that way．”he said．

1．The author suggests that ________________．

    A．we should ask for help when we are in trouble

    B．we should think of the things in a positive（積極的）way

    C．people in depression need understanding

    D．we should stop people who want to die

2．The man had lost heart for living because ___________．

    A．his wife had left him

    B． he had lost everything in his life

    C．he only thought of the dark side of his life

    D．he was suffering from the disease

3．Peale drew a straight line on a piece of paper to ____________．

    A．show the man how to divide a piece of paper

    B．help the man analyze（分析）his situation

    C．make a list of things he needed to do

    D．show his kindness

4．We can infer（推論）that the man in depression finally __________．

    A．went home happily

    B． filled the left column with bad things

    C．left the office angrily

    D．killed himself

5．How many things are written down on the left side of the column?

    A．One．                 B．Two                    C．Three．                  D．None．