Mọi người ơi, giúp e vs ạ. làm đúng hay sai đều đc( ko phk cố ý làm sai nha) e đều cho 5sao+cảm ơn nha

1. Kath admits that she ate a lot of soup during the year, made from reduced-price vegetables!
2. In particular, she was concerned about being able to afford a good present for her brother when he got married in 12 months' time.
3. In spite of this, she was able to save even more money in a range of different ways.
4. She used £ 1,300 of the money she had saved to buy her brother a lifetime membership of the National Trust as a wedding present.
5. But it was not like that at all.
6. Every time there was a public event and a crowd was needed, I was there.
7. She couldn't afford a mobile phone.

 

Kath Kelly, a teacher of English to foreign students living in Bristol, was complaining about all her money worries to a group of friends. (1) ________ So she came up with an unusual way to save money. She promised her friends that she would try to live for 12 months spending no more than a pound a day.

The next day Kath wasn't so sure that she had made the right decision. Although her rent and energy bills were paid for, she still had to buy food and clothes, pay for transport and have a social life - all on one pound a day! Kath said, 'My mates all tried to stop me. They thought I was mad. They imagined I would be living like a monk, never going out, or borrowing from them. (2) ________ .'

Kath discovered lots of ways to find cheap food. She often went to supermarkets near closing time and bought last-minute reductions. She filled her freezer with 10p loaves of bread and other cheap items. (3) ________ She also picked fruit from bushes and always took free samples from people who were advertising things in the streets or shops.

As another way of getting food and also as part of her social life, she started going to lots of free events. 'I was out all the time,' says Kath. 'I went to the public lectures at Bristol University that had a buffet afterwards, and I went to the library's 100th birthday where they had a buffet as well. I was the queen of the buffet. (4) ________ I could not buy rounds at the pub or anything like that so I would drag friends out to art openings and book launches.'

She even managed a holiday visit to her brother in France by hitchhiking to the Channel Tunnel and persuading a French woman to take her to France as a passenger. On the way back she travelled on the ferry with a lorry driver, and had dinner at the drivers' canteen.

Any form of public transport was too expensive, so Kath did a lot of cycling during the year. This increased because of another saving she had to make. (5) ________ So she would simply cycle to friends' houses if she wanted to speak to them and leave a note if they were out.

After a difficult but fascinating 12 months, Kath successfully completed the challenge she had set herself. (6) ________ Another bonus of her year's challenge was that she met and fell in love with Bruce Taylor while she was working as a volunteer on an organic farm. Today Kath says that the experiment has completely changed her attitude to life. 'I'm a lot more sensible with my money now and live a completely different lifestyle.'

Could you live on £1 a day?