Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance (pocket money). The purpose is to let children learn from experiences at an age when financial mistakes are not very costly.
The amount of money that parents give to their children to spend as they wish differs from family to family. Timing is another consideration. Some children get a weekly allowance. Others get a monthly allowance.
In any case, parents should make clear what, if anything, the child is expected to pay for with the money. At first, young children may spend all of their allowance soon after they receive it. If they do this,they will learn the hard way that spending must be done within a budget (预算). Parents are usually advised not to offer more money until the next allowance. The object is to show young people that a budget demands a choice between spending and saving. Older children may be responsible enough to save money for larger costs, like clothing or electronics.
Many people who have written on the subject of allowances say it is not a good idea to pay your child for work around the home. These jobs are a normal part of family life. Paying children to do extra work around the house, however, can be useful. It can even provide an understanding of how a business works.
Allowances give children a chance to experience the three things they can do with money. They can share it in the form of gifts or giving to a good cause. They can spend it by buying things they want. Or they can save it.
Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice. You have to cut costs and plan for the future. Requiring children to save part of their allowances can also open the door to future saving and investing. Many banks offer services to help children and teenagers learn about personal finance. A saving account is an excellent way to learn about the power of compound interest.
Compounding works by paying interest. So, for example, one dollar invested at two percent interest for two years will earn two cents in the first year. The second year, the money will earn two percent of one dollar and two cents, and so on. That may not seem like a lot, but over time it adds up.
1.Parents give their children allowances in order to _____.
A. show off their wealth of family
B. let them make more money
C. learn the value of money
D. help children manage family finance
2.What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A. The time to give allowances.
B. The way to spend alloweances.
C. the amount of allowances given to children.
D. Considerations taken to give allowances.
3.Why are parents adivsed to offer young children allowances strictly as planned?
A. To help children learn to make a budget.
B. To have children save money for larger costs.
C. To let children make fewer mistakes.
D. To give them more allowances next time.
4.What does the author intend to tel lthe readers?
A. The methods of limiting allowances.
B. The advice on a better family budget.
C. Teaching children to use allowances wisely.
D. Offering allowances to children properly.
The adder is the only poisonous snake native to Britain. Adders have the most highly developed poison injecting mechanism of all snakes, but they are not aggressive animals. Adders will only use their poison as a last means of defence, usually if caught or trodden on. No one has died from adder bites in Britain for over 20 years. By far the most common smake in Britain is the adder. In Scotland, in fact, there are no other snakes at all. The adder is also the only British sanke with a poisonous bite. It can be found almost anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open country, including high gournd. In Ireland there are no snakes at all.
Most people regard snake bites as a fatal misfortune, but not all bites are serious, and very few are fatal . Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn out to be more dangerous than the bite itself, with amateurs heroically, but mistakenly, trying do-it-yourself surgery and other unnecessary measures.
All snakes have small teeth, so it follows tha tall snakes can bite, but only te bite of the adder presents any danger. British snakes are shy animals and are far more frightened of you than you could possibly be of them. The adder will attack only if it feels threatened, as can happen if you take it by surprise and step on it accidentally, or if you try to catch it or pick it up, which it dislikes intensely. If it hears you coming, it will normally get out of the way as quickly as it can, but adders cannot move very rapidly and may attack before moving if you are very close.
The effect of a bite varies considerably. It depends upon severa things, one of which is the boidy-wight of the person bitten. The bigger the person, the less harmful the bite is likely to be, which is why children suffer far more seriously from snake bites in Britain ,and thought these bites can make some pepe very ill, there are probably just as many cases of bites having little or no effect, as there are of serious illness.
1.What does the underlined phrase “ trodden on” probably mean?
A. Found out B. Heard from C. Stepped on. D. Robbed of.
2.Where are adders to be found?
A. In fertile fields in Scotland.
B. On wild land throughout Britain.
C. In many parts of Britain and Ireland.
D. Everywhere in Britian except Scotland
3.What should you do if you are with someone who is bitten by an adder?
A. Catch the biting adder at onece.
B. Don’t worry about the bitten person.
C. Don’t try to treat the bite by yourself.
D. Operate on the person as soon as possible.
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. Poisonous Snakes B. Adders in Britain
C. Take Care oif Sake Bites D. Protec Endangered Adders
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties ,and would be likely to have seven or eight children, four or five of whom lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work.. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has to take care of children, her work is lightened by moder living conditions.
This important change in women's life-patterns has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls took a full-time job after they left school.. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school- leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry older, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
1.At what age did most women marry around the 1890 according to the passage?
A. At about twenty-five B. In their earl fifties
C. At the age of fifteen D. At any age from fifteen to forty-five
2.What happened to an ordinary family in about 1900?
A. The youngest child could live to fifteen.
B. Four of five children died after they were five.
C. Seven or eight children lived to be more than five.
D. Some children died when the were very young.
3.When she was over fifty , a late nineteenth-century mother ______.
A. was usaully expected to die fiarely soon
B. would expect to work until she died
C. would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs
D. was less like to find a job even if she wanted to
4.What do we know from the passage?
A. Husbands and wives share equal responsibilities at home.
B. More and more women are looked down upon by husbands.
C. Today women prefer to get married rather than get jobs.
D. A husband plays a greater part in looking after the children.
Some people have travelled to Canada while others may have just heard of it . As is known to all, the Canadian red and white maple leaf flag is officially called The National Flag of Canada. The Canadian flag shows a stylized red maple leaf with 11 points on a white background, with red borders down each side. The Canadian flag is twice as long as its width. The white square containing the red maple leaf is the same width as the flag. Canada is a very large country, too. It is the second largest country in the world.By contrast, it has a very small population. There are only about 29 millinon people there. Most Canadians are of British or French origin, and French is an official language as well English. About 45 % of the people are of British origin, that is, they or their parents or grandparents, etc, come from Britain. Nearly 30 % are of French origin. Most of the French-Canadians live in the province of quebec. Over the years people have come to live in Canada from many countries in the world. They are mostly from European countries and also from China, as well as other Asian countries.
However , Canada was not an empty country when the Europeans began to arrive. Canadian-Indian lived along the coast, bythe rivers and lakes and in forests. Today there are only 350,000 Canadian-Indians in the whole country, with their own language. In the far north live the Inuits. There are only 27, 000 Canadian-Inuits. Their life is hard in such a harsh climate.
1.What is the populatin of Quebec?
A. More than 29, 000.000
B. About 30% of the total population.
C. Over 45% of th etotal population
D. Less than 30% of the French-Canadians.
2.Which of the following stands for Canada?
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?
A. The Canadian flag I stwice as wide as its length.
B. Most Indians are now forced to live along the coast.
C. Nowadays Inuit still have difficult living conditions.
D. Nobody existed when the Europeans began to arrive in Canada.
近年来, 随着私家车的增加, 城市交通越来越拥挤。在中、小学生上学或放学时, 校门口以及学校附近拥挤问题更加严重。这给学生、教师、家长和其他市民带来许多不便。尤其值得注意的是, 学校附近的交通堵塞也存在不可忽略的隐患。为此, 这引起了不少民众的担忧。你作为一名在校学生, 署名张小明, 根据以下要点写一封英语信, 向本校英语报投稿。
1. 为什么要写这封英语信。
2. 你们学校门口及附近交通拥挤的原因。
3. 提出二至三条建议。
注意：词数120-150左右。
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阅读下面短文, 并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。
【1】 One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime（10分硬币）left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.
【2】 However, he lost his courage when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”
【3】 “You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness. ” He said, “Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart.” As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.
【4】Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr Howard Kelly, now famous, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town __________, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.
【5】Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.
【6】After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words…
“Paid in full with a glass of milk”
（Signed） Dr Howard Kelly
【7】Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently, “Thank you, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands. ”
1.What is the best title of the passage? （No more than 8 words. ）
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2.When Dr. Howard Kelly heard the name of the town, what did he do?
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3.Please fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.
（No more than 5 words. ）
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4.When the young woman read the note, what was her feeling? （No more than 4 words. ）
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5.What does the underlined word “it” （Sentence3, Paragraph 6） refer to?
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