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2016 年上半年期末考试 英语专业《英语报刊选读》试题

2016 年7月Passage one Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to

16 received a full financial education got lost in the '

wash up'

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An application is calling on the next govemmnt to brilig it back. At school the children are taught to add 叩and sItbtract(减法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bink account 一let alone how to mariage their finances in an increasingly complex anil dethand晚world Today the parenting website Muinsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make fmancial education a compiilsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from five to

16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that ws shelved 妙the goveitment in the so-called wash-up earlier this month 一the rush to legislation before parliamnt was distiissed. tonsiiber and parent groups believe fifiincial education has always been ne of the mbst frustrating omissions of the curriculum As the Perbnal Finahce Education Group (Pfeg)'

points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven- to 1l-year-olds are ,碱漏ut by the time they get to 17: over half of them are in debt th thinily hd fridds. By tlil 亏age, 26% see:cMdit card .: overdraft(透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts iat the'

se ydhg people '

iil find it much harder to avoid the eriou, unepected daniers that '

have befallen many of their parents, generation unle 甘s they receiVe good quality finanCial educati6d while at 总chool,,

The饭has been in the worst financial ecossion( 衰i2)for ghertions. It does'

~ odd that 一unless parents step in 一young people are left in the dark until th4'

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(9136) 《英语报刊选读》 introduced, to the world 叮debt when they turn up at university.marrecent poll of over 8,00&

// people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was ajob,for parents 1. The passage is mainly about . A. how to manage school lessons,! ,,

B.how to deal with the financial crisis :、 才:C. teaching young people about money! D. teaching students how to study effectively ,『 2. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that ? A. the author complains about the school education B. pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract C. students have been taught to manage their finances D. laws on fmancial education have been effectively carried out i, 3. The website and the consumer campaigner joined to A. instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money B.promote the connection of schools and families _ C. ask the government to dismiss the parliament D. appeal for the curriculum of financial education , 4. According to Pfeg, . A. it is easy to keep good habits long B. teenagers spend their money as planned. , C.parents are willing to pay the debt for their kids D. it will be in trouble if the teenagers areleft atone 5. A poll is mentioned to .. A. stress the necessity of the curriculum reform B. show the seriousness of the financial recession C. make the readers aware of burden of the parents D. illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal Passage two , j 试题第I页共6页When I wasa bo叭1belonged to the Boy Scouts so I used to go tiamping every summer, and once something happened which I have never been able to explain. , We were camping in a place above a river. After arriving, we all rushed down to the rivEr and had a swim. Standing by the river, we noticed that it was surrounded(环绕) by cliffs(!崖). If someone wanted to reach the river at this point, he had to walk past our camp. Severn! days later, the scoutmaster had to be away for a day. That afternoon, we had supper early. We were sitting round the fire, eating and talking, when a man walked past and went down towards the river. We all felt that this man looked very strange, but, because each of us was afraid of looking very stupid, no one said anything We ate rather slowly, taking as long: as possible. After finishing, we collected our plates together so that we could take them to the river where. we always washed them. But no one moved towards the river 榜estood looking ateach other ashamed. Then all shouting at once, we began talking about the man who had walked past us. We agreed how: strange he looked and we wondered what he could be doing by the river. We knew that he could only return 切passing through our camp. An hour passed. Then one of the boys suggested we should creep(悄悄移动)down by the river so that we could see what the man was doing. Moving very slowly and keeping in the shadow, we crept down towards the bank. One boy climbed a tree so that he could see everything clearly. He called to us that there was no one there, so we ran down to the bank, looking everywhere carefully. We could not understand where the man had gone. When it got dark, we went back to our camp;