题目内容：

    This year I’m buying presents for 16 children, as well as my own daughter, Mia-Grace, who will be two on Christmas Day. My tree will be beautifully decorated, I’m bringing the turkey to the family Christmas lunch and having an open house activity on Boxing Day. And the whole thing’s only going to cost me £150.

I’ve been careful with money since I was a teenager, for I came from a poor family with many children. I had to drop out of high school to earn money to support myself. I remember well that I went a bit mad back then when I got my first credit card and my parents had to leave me from home and cared little for me from then, which taught me a real lesson.

We’re very careful now and we don’t overspend or owe anything on credit cards. I work for an electrician and my husband Neil, 33, works in the construction business. We’re concerned about our jobs because our companies are quiet at the moment.

We’ve also been hit by rising prices, particularly food, petrol, gas and electricity. Everyone I know is worried. One of my friends’ husbands has just gone self-employed and if he doesn’t work, they have no money coming in.

Christmas has been playing on my mind for the past three or four months. We decided on a budget of £150 because that’s just under my weekly wage and it meant we could afford Christmas while using Neil’s salary for our essential bills.

We quickly realized that we buy some things every year just for the sake of it. Even though we have lots of decorations already, we usually buy something new for the tree but this Christmas we’re not going to. We’ve already got our tree – a big man-made one which I bought half-price in the January sales. It will last us for years.

After all, no one can escape from this financial crisis which is spreading throughout the globe.

1.We can infer that Boxing Day most probably falls on ______.

A. January 20 B. May 5

C. October 24 D. December 26

2.Which of the following is TRUE about the author according to this passage?

A. She has bought Christmas presents for 16 children in total.

B. She has bought a man-made Christmas tree at a low price.

C. Both the author and her husband are already out of work now.

D. She would like to buy a new Christmas tree for this Christmas.

3.The second and third paragraphs mainly tell us ______ .

A. why the author has been very careful with money

B. how she finished her education of high school

C. where she earned her first money in her teens

D. when she left home and got married to her husband

4.We can conclude from this passage ______.

A. the author often quarrels with her husband about their little earnings

B. nobody but the author was worried about the rising prices

C. the author has never been worried about losing jobs

D. the author and those around her are suffering from the financial crisis