It is normal for parents to question their children's hairstyle or the clothes they wear. But today teenagers and their parents argue over something else: money.
Children are spending lots of it. Parents used to say to their children, You're wearing that? Now they say, You paid how much for that?
Children in the US today spend five times more money than their parents did when they were young.
So what are all these children buying? The list is long: ipods trainers(训练鞋), cellphones and jeans are typical items that children have to buy. And they will do anything to get them. They ask their parents over and over until they buy them.
But parents also need to take the blame for spending so much money. They want their children to have the best stuff. They end up peting with other parents over what their children have.
So no wonder children find it hard to learn the importance of saving money rather than spending it all the time.
And it's hard to save when panies use advertising and clever slogans to encourage young people to buy their products. They even encourage children to keep asking their parents for something until they get it.
Today, you don't even need to have money in order to buy something. Banks give out credit cards and loans all the time so people are saving less and less. We are used to there being lots of money around. And if you don't have much you can always borrow some.
But this hasn't always been the case. When our grandparents were young there was very little money and everyone had to save hard for things they bought. They only bought things they needed, not things they just wanted.
The older generation made the wise expression, Money doesn’t grow on trees. This is as true now as it was 50 years ago. They give money a great deal of value. And we all have a lot to learn from them.
【小题1】The text mainly tells us .A．divisions between teenagers and their parentsB．children's high consumption (消费) of productsC．what is popular among children at the momentD．how to spend money wisely【小题2】Parents are to blame for children's spending a lot of money because .A．they encourage children to care about the latest fashionB．their consumption habits set a bad example for childrenC．they always give children too much pocket moneyD．they do nothing to help children establish healthy consumption habits【小题3】Nowadays people find it hard to save money because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT that . A．banks provide credit cards and loansB．advertisements draw people’s attention to new productsC．people have more money than in the past and saving is out of dateD．people's living standard has improved and they can buy what they want【小题4】The saying Money doesn't grow on trees. in the last paragraph is intended to tell us that .A．the older generation understood how to teach children to saveB．in the past, people attached more importance to saving moneyC．money has a great deal of valueD．money is not easily earned and people should be careful spending itB
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(答案→)B
解析：文章是关于现在孩子的高消费问题，并分析了原因。
【小题1】主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章是关于现在孩子的高消费问题。
【小题2】细节题。根据文章第五段可知。
【小题3】推理题。根据倒数第三段Banks give out credit cards and loans all the time so people are saving less and less.知道A正确。倒数第四段And it's hard to save when panies use advertising and clever slogans to encourage young people to buy their products.知道B正确。D也正确。
【小题4】推理题。根据文章最后一段可知，以前的老人有非常好的金钱观。