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  A More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children,a new survey showed last Tuesday.

  The survey,published by the Bank of America? stud?ied the rich with$ 3 million or more in assets. It found that" surprisingly few of those surveyed have welldeveloped plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their children".

  The majority of the457 people surveyed are selfmade,first-generation rich. 52per cent of parents have,chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are,and15 per cent have given away nothing about the family wealth. One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.

  They are worried that their children would become lazy,spend money freely,make bad decisions and even be?come a target for gold diggers.

Only34 per cent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance (遺產(chǎn)) they plan to leave them.

  "There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation," said Sallie Krawcheck,former president of the Global Wealth and Investment Manage?ment of Bank of America. "Our research,however,uncov?ered changing views of what one generation owes the next."

The trend is led by the world's richest man Bill Gates,who promised in2008 that he would leave his$ 58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife,the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (基金會) ，and not to his children.

  "We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive impact," he said.

  Of his plans for his children,Gates said, "I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage... they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of."

11. We can learn from the passage that      .

   A. rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance

   B. rich parents don't equal rich kids,at least in the US

   C. American children don't get to inherit their parents' wealth

   D. poor children don't expect themselves to be as rich as their parents

12. According to the survey* most rich Americans      

   A. think they owe their children nothing

   B. think it best to give their money back to society

   C. doubt their children's ability to handle wealth

   D. are confident of their children's ability to handle wealth 

13. The underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refers to      

   A. responsible children

   B. Bill Gates and his wife

   C. rich children

   D. rich parents

14. From the last paragraph,we can see that Bill Gates wants to show         .

   A. the trend of leaving no inheritance to children

   B. the positive impact of charity on society

   C. the way of giving back to society

   D. the importance of independence for children

Answer 1

[文章大意]文章主要介紹了大多數(shù)美國富人處理他們資產(chǎn)的方式，并以此告訴人們保持孩子的獨立性比金錢更重要。

11.B推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二、三段可知，在美M，大多數(shù)富人不把他們所有的資產(chǎn)告訴孩子們，也不會讓孩子們繼承太多的資產(chǎn)，由此可以得出家長富有并不等于孩子富有。

12. C推理判斷題。根據(jù)第五段"Only34 per cent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inher?itance (遺產(chǎn)) they plan to leave them."可知，僅有34%的家長堅信他們的孩子有能力處理好將來留給他們的任何遺產(chǎn)，由此可以推出大多數(shù)家長對孩子處理資產(chǎn)的能力表示懷疑。

13. D同義猜測題。岡線詞they所在的句子是there be結(jié)構(gòu)的句子，其中that引導的是同位語從句，解釋說明expecta?tion的內(nèi)容，這里they指的是那些富有的家長們(the wealthy parents) 。

14. D推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段可知，比爾v蓋茨會給孩子們一些錢，但這些錢不多，他們將需要工作，但同時他們也會感覺到自己已經(jīng)得到了合理的照顧，比爾•蓋茨這樣做的目的是不讓孩子們過度地依賴父母，而是要讓他們學會獨立。