考单招——上高职单招网 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，studied 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 the 457 people surveyed are selfmade，firstgeneration rich.Fiftytwo percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent 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 become a target for gold diggers. Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance (遗产) 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，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America.“Our research，however，uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.” The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates，who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife，the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation (基金会)，and not to his children.
“We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most
考单招——上高职单招网 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.”
【语篇解读】 调查表明，大部分美国富人不愿向孩子炫富，甚至不打算将丰厚的资产传给后代。
5．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 解析 推理判断题。第二段的后半部分提到在被调查的美国富人中，几乎没有人计划为他们的孩子保留资产或者将资产传给孩子，由此可推断在美国，父母富有并不意味着孩子富有。 答案 B
6．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
解析 推理判断题。根据第四段内容可推知，大部分美国富人怀疑他们的孩子处理财富的能力。 答案 C
7．The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to________.
考单招——上高职单招网 A．responsible children C．firstgeneration rich
B．Bill Gates and his wife D．rich parents
解析 猜测词义题。人们期望富裕的父母把他们的财富传给下一代，此处they指代的是画线词前面的“the wealthy parents”，即“rich parents”。 答案 D
8．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
解析 推理判断题。根据本段中比尔·盖茨所说的话可推知，他更强调孩子的个人奋斗，认为培养孩子的自立很重要。 答案 D
阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Some years ago I took on a task in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted to do was to show that everybody has the capacity to be self sufficient and all we have to do is to activate（激励）them. I asked the country to pick up a group of people who were on public welfare, people from different racial groups and different family groups. I would then see them as a group
考单招——上高职单招网 for three hours every Friday. I also asked for a little petty cash to work with, as I needed it.
The first thing I said after I shook hands with everybody was, “I’d like to know what your dreams are.” Everyone looked at me as if I were kind of fool.
One woman said to me, “I don’t know what you can do with dreams. The rats are eating up my kids.”
“Oh,” I said, “That’s terrible. No, of course, you are very much involved with the rats and your kids. How can that be helped?”
“Well, I could use a new screen door because there are holes in my screen door.” I asked, “Is there anybody around here who know how to fix a screen door?”
There was a man in the group and he said, “A long time ago I used to do things like that but now I have a terribly bad back, but I’ll try.”
I told him I had some money if he would go to the store and but some screening and go and fix the lady’s screen door. “Do you think you can do that?”
“Yes, I’ll try.”
The next week, when the group was seated. I said to the woman, “Well, is your screen door fixed?”
“Oh, yes.” she said.
“Then we can start dreaming, can’t we?” she sort of smiled at me. I said to the man who did the work, “How do you feel?”
He said, “Well, you know, it’s very funny thing. I’m beginning to feel a lot better.” That helped the group to begin to dream. These seemingly small successes allowed the group to see that dreams were not insane. These small steps began to get people to see and feel that something really could happen.
考单招——上高职单招网 Everyone found something. The man who put in the screen door became a handyman. In 12 weeks, I had all those people off public welfare. I’ve not only done that once, I’ve done that in many times.
50．What’s the opinion the author had when he took on the work?
A．People need to be activated by others to make a living. B．Everyone should not have depended on public welfare. C．Everyone has the ability to live on without getting public welfare. D．The county should gather people from different racial groups together.
51．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．The author did the work at his own expense.
B．The people the author worked with were very wealthy. C．The author usually met the people four times a month. D．The people the author worked with had no dreams at all.
52．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?
A．The rats are so big that they eat the children. B．The rats are crazy and have the children as food. C．The rats are giving the kids and the mother much trouble. D．The kids are too weak and even are nearly eaten by the rats.