大学英语四级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷774
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At school our children are taught to add up and subtract but, extraordinarily, are not shown how to open a bank account—let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online petition (请愿) to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from 5 to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say.
And that was exactly the plan enshrined (铭记) in the Children, Schools and Families Bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called \\
1.What conclusion can we draw from the first paragraph?(C)
A. Children at school don’t focus their attention upon studies.
B. Children at school don’t do well in their mathematics.
C. Children at school don’t get their financial education.
D. Children at school can’t adjust to the complex and demanding world.
解析：由题干中的the first paragraph定位到第一段。推理判断题。由定位段可知，学校里的孩子们虽然学习了加法和减法，但是没有学过如何开设银行账户，更不知道如何在日益复杂和高要求的世界里管理自己的财务，故正确答案为C)。
2.What can we infer according to Martin Lewis?(B)
A. Financial education should be carried out in every country.
B. It is essential to teach students money management.
C. Children should save their pocket money to pay for their tuition fees.
D. It is effective for consumer campaigners to launch an online petition.
解析：由题干中的Martin Lewis定位到第二段第一句。推理判断题。由定位句可知，马丁.路易斯已经和育儿教育网站妈妈网联手发出一封网上请愿书，希望让金融教育成为英国学校课程里的必修内容，由此可推断。马丁.路易斯认为教学生们财务管理是重要的，故正确答案为B)。
3.According to the Personal Finance Education Group, ________.(A)
A. children ought to receive excellent financial education at school
B. consumers and parents file complaints with education authorities
C. parents should be to blame for spoiling their children
D. young children can not form the good habits
解析：由题干中的the Personal Finance Education Group定位到第四段最后两句。推理判断题。由定位句可知，个人理财教育集团阐述了不对孩子进行良好的金融教育会造成严重的后果，由此可推断，该集团认为孩子应当在学校接受良好的金融教育，故正确答案为A)。
4.What is Chris Tapp’s purpose of referring to car crash?(A)
A. To stress the importance of financial education.
B. To tell us how terrible the traffic in the UK is.
C. To tell us the importance of financial ideas for a country.
D. To explain what an important role the government plays.
解析：由题干中的Chris Tapp和car crash定位到第五段第三至五句。细节辨认题。由定位句可知，克里斯.塔普将不对孩子进行金融教育而让其步入社会与不对人进行指导而让其驾车作对比，并指出每个人都需要明智地理财和使用金融产品，他衷心支持让下一任政府确保让每一个孩子都有了解金融的机会，故正确答案为A)。
5.What’s the author’s attitude towards financial education?(C)
A. Neutral.
B. Doubted.
C. Supportive.
D. Indifferent.
解析：由题干中的the author’s attitude和financial education定位到第六段第一、二句。观点态度题。由定位句可知，在一个超过8 000人的民意调查中，97％的人支持在学校进行金融教育，而3％的人说这是家长的工作。而作者支持绝大多数人。也就是前者，故正确答案为C)。
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6.What’s the purpose of Owen’s recruiting volunteers to do the first round of tests?(A)
A. To test their reasoning ability and verbal and spatial memory.
B. To support the BBC television program in his way.
C. To prove how much information participants can remember.
D. To detect differences among people in memorizing information.
解析：由题干中的Owen’s、volunteer
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