第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分.满分40分) 阅读下列短文.从每题所给的四个选项中.选出最佳选项.三百六十 An allowance is an i

第三部分  阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。三百六十

Anallowance(零用钱) is an important tool forteaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Childrenremember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spentfoolishly.

Howlarge is an allowance appropriate? Experts say there is not right amount.Actual amounts differ from area to area, and from family to family.

Toset an appropriate allowance for your child, work out a weekly budget. Allowfor entertainment expenditures (花费) such as movie andsnack. Next include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare and schoolsupplies. “If you make the child responsible for these bills, ”says JosephineSwanson, a consumer specialist, “he or she will learn to budget for necessaryexpenditures.”

Finallyadd some extra money to make saving possible. If you can, keep your child’s allowancein line with that of his friends, a child whose purchasing power falls awaybelow his peers can feel left out.

Itcan be tough but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake withtheir allowance. When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville,her mother gave her $5 a week. $1.75 of which was for bus fare and lunch. “ If you lose money” Brooke’s mother told her, “you walk home.”

Oneweek the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, and then she calledhome for a ride, “Mom made me walk home,” recalls Stephens, now a financialplanner in Brooklyn. “At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she wastrying to teach me an important lesson.”

Expertsadvise an allowance should not be tied directly to a child’s daily chore (琐事).Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but becausethey share responsibilities as members of family. You might, however, pay achild for doing extra jobs at home. That can develop his or her initiative (主动性).

1.What does the text mainly discuss?

  A. How to develop a child’s initiative.

  B. How to work up a budget.

  C. How to teach a child to save money.

  D. How to teach a child to manage money matters.

2.It can be inferred from the text that if a child is given an allowance, he orshe may_____.

  A. spend all the money very soon

  B. be spoiled and finally ruined

  C. lose the money and can not return home

  D. feel responsible and be careful about money

3.The underlined part “his peers”(in Para.4)probably refers to ______.

  A. his friends    B. his brothers    C. hisparents     D. his teachers

4Why does the author mention Brooke Stephens?

  A. To question the opinion about pocket money.

  B. To compare Stephens with other experts.

 C. To explain the parents should be strict when children are developing habitsabout money.

  D. To suggest that pocket money is useless in developing a child’s sense ofresponsibility.

试题答案

【答案】

 D

 D

 A

 C

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