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If your friend wants to reduce living expenses, which would you suggest?

1. Find a roommate that can share the living expenses.

2. Buy the new technology products less frequently.

3. Shop for less expensive food and cooking at home

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Without any doubts, all of us would face the situation of being short of money. If a friend of mine asks me for advises to cut the living cost, I will definitely tell him or her to find a roommate. The reasons are as follows.

To start with, sharing the room provides lots of beneficial byproducts other than lowing the cost. A friend is always a great helping hand. Living by ourselves, we have to deal with a lot of dilemmas on our own. When pressure and difficulty comes, we cannot always ask for family’s help simply because they will worry about us, also, they are not able to offer us help from our hometowns which are far away from us in some cases. This is the time when friends’ help shows its importance. Staying with us, they can comfort us right in time. I still remember that when I was in my college, my roommate tried very hard to encourage me to take another TOEFL test after I failed for the first time. I believe lots of people would share the same experience as me.

To make it even further, having a roommate would not lower our  猜词互动  . When it comes to “cutting expense”, naturally, we will think of a lower standard of life. If I ask people whether they want to give up smart phones or eat worse food in order to lower the living expense, in most cases, the answer would be “no”. Sharing room with a roommate, we can still buy things we like and eat the food we prefer. In a word, we don’t have to compromise to the reality and sacrifice our life quality. I met some students before who did not buy any electronic products just because they wanted to save some money, yet every time when the professor asked us to search some information online, they had to go very far just for using computers in the library. By finding a roommate, their financial problems could be easily handled.

Admittedly, having a roommate can bring problems sometimes, like schedule conflicts or even fights over different opinions. Nevertheless, instead of having a random person to share a room, we can try to find an ideal roommate by posting messages on the website or asking friends or teachers to recommend some students for us.

As what has been illustrated, having a roommate will totally do the trick.

思路简述

这是一道新题。从模式来说，是一道三选一的题目。对于如何降低生活成本，无论是自己做饭还是少买电子产品，毫无疑问，都会降低我们的生活质量，而且本身这两个选项也存在着很多共性，所以无论选哪个，在论证当中都会存在不周全的地方。而招室友，不会影响自己的生活质量，而且又可以互相帮助互相扶持，毫无疑问成为了一个相对容易操作的选项。

重点词汇

1. byproduct：

n. A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.

The raw material for the tyre is a byproduct of oil refining.

2. compromise: 

v. An agreement that is achieved after everyone involved accepts less than what they wanted at first, or the act of making this agreement

Compromise is an inevitable part of marriage.

3. do the trick: v. succeed

I'm sure you both agree that your partner will do the trick until someone better comes along.

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