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Downsizing becoming a way of life

A. Five years ago, Sam Rodela was doing exceedingly well and living large, with multiple cars and other high-end purchases. While the Texas-reared, self-trained software designer is making six figures and can still afford luxury goods, he has consciously scaled back, saying he realized that his hobbies, sports and volunteering brought him more enjoyment than acquiring possessions.
B. Once lived cosily in a 1200-square-foot loft, Rodela is renting an apartment that is 800 square feet. His Jeep Wrangler and upscale Infiniti are gone, replaced by a 6-year-old Toyota 4Runner and a mountain bike. Instead of spending wastefully on entertainment and recreation, Rodela said he volunteers 20 to 30 hours a month with groups like the Red Cross, the DFW Federal Club Human Rights Campaign, Vogel Alcove Homeless Childcare, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, the North Texas Food Bank and a mentoring group, Student

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A. Five years ago, Sam Rodela was doing exceedingly well and living large, with multiple cars and other high-end purchases. While the Texas-reared, self-trained software designer is making six figures and can still afford luxury goods, he has consciously scaled back, saying he realized that his hobbies, sports and volunteering brought him more enjoyment than acquiring possessions.
B. Once lived cosily in a 1200-square-foot loft, Rodela is renting an apartment that is 800 square feet. His Jeep Wrangler and upscale Infiniti are gone, replaced by a 6-year-old Toyota 4Runner and a mountain bike. Instead of spending wastefully on entertainment and recreation, Rodela said he volunteers 20 to 30 hours a month with groups like the Red Cross, the DFW Federal Club Human Rights Campaign, Vogel Alcove Homeless Childcare, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, the North Texas Food Bank and a mentoring group, Student

[单项选择]A. Five years ago. B. Four years ago.
C. Six years ago. D. Not long ago.

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For more than five thousand years Chinese doctors have used needles to fight illness. This kind of medicine is called acupuncture. The doctor studies the sick person carefully. Then he puts needles into that person’s body at the right places for his illness. Chinese doctors believe that they can control the body’s natural forces in this way. At first, doctors in the West thought that this was just another kind of magic. Recently, however, they have found out that it is possible to cure many illnesses like this because the needles help the body to produce its own "medicines". In this way the body cures itself.
Nowadays doctors can do a lot of wonderful things. They can use thousands of medicines. They can give you pills and injections. They can even give you mechanical legs or a new heart. Sometimes modern medicine works like magic. But there are still a lot of illnesses that drugs and machines cannot cure completely. Medicine is not only a sc