完形填空。 It's early July right now and all I can think of is how I'm going to live through the year financially. 1 prices rising as fast as ants on bread, I wonder how we can 2 it. I can't imagine what a five-personfamily with one income is 3 right now. You could buy so many things with ten dollars in the past, buttoday ten dollars in my pocket 4 I worked overtime last week! In the past, I 5 turned the light off when I left a room or turned my computer off when I wasn't usingit, but these days, I open the fridge and 6 it as quickly as I can. I 7 more heat because lowering thetemperature means a 8 electric bill. We have a budget. Prices keep 9 and our pay doesn't. Don't get me wrong. We have enough to 10 our bills, keep food in the house, and put 11 in our cars, but that's about it. There hasn't been much 12 in our house for the past few months. 13 going out to dinner, we invite people over "potluck(百乐餐,自带饮食的聚会)". I've neverbeen a potluck person. I always had more than 14 food at any I held at my house. 15 now I ask everyone to bring something. I hate to do it, but I can't 16 not to do it. We aren't having a big family vacation this year instead of taking a weekend to go camping on dayswe already have 17 . We are eating lots of pasta(意大利面食) these days. As John Mayor sings it-"waiting on the world to change". I am 18 wondering whether it's going to change for the better or continue to get 19 . All I know for sure is that we have to change our budget more 20 , turn more lights off and eat more pasta! ( ) 1. A.With ( ) 2. A.get along ( ) 3. A.dealing ( ) 4. A.remains ( ) 5. A.even ( ) 6. A.widen ( ) 7. A.took ( ) 8. A.higher ( ) 9. A.raising ( )10. A.buy ( )11. A.paint ( )12. A.extra ( )13. A.No more ( )14. A.much too ( )15. A.Though ( )16. A.stand ( )17. A.off ( )18. A.expecting ( )19. A.best ( )20. A.easily B.While B.get overB.doing B.suggestsB.never B.close B.take B.more B.sinking B.waste B.water B.else B.In placeB.too muchB.As B.bear B.away B.waiting B.longer B.sadly C.As C.get acrossC. C.shows C.ever C.remove C.will take C.less C.rising C.spend C.oil C.enough C.Instead ofC.many too C.Until C.afford C.along C.witnessingC.harder C.suddenly D.If D.get through D.solving D.means D.always D.switch D.have taken D.lower D.decreasing D.pay D.gas D.adequate D.Except for D.too many D.But D.buy D.over D.attending D.unlucky D.often