【題目】The First Rule of Finance is to live within your means by spending no more than 80% of your take-home pay．If you take home $ 100 per week, spend no more than $80．

But ever look at what people spend their money on? I have relatives and friends deeply in debt, spending $ 12 for every $ 10 they earn instead of the $ 8 you know they should be spending．When I see them, they're proud of their new whatever．"What do you think of my new truck?" asked one from the driver's seat．"Do you like my new shoes?" asked another on high heels．"Check out my new big screen．" said a third while holding the remote in his living room．We've all heard people fishing for compliments on their new toys．

Every one of them was proud of what they'd financed．They seem to have bought it for the purpose of being proud, of showing off, of keeping up with the Joneses．"Look at my new …?"is everybody's favorite phrase, even when the object in question isn't theirs at all and won't be new when they've finally paid for it, if they ever do．

They're proud of being stupid．They think it's cool to drive the financed car, wear the financed shoes, and watch the financed TV, but to smart people, whose opinions are the only ones we should respect, these people look dumb as rocks．

The Joneses, nine times out of 10, are financially stupid．That's why they have all that stuff on borrowed money．Why try to copy them? Worse, why try to impress them? Copy and impress smart people, the ones who own their stuff．If you want to impress smart people, debt is the last way to go about it．Trying to impress a money-smart person by going into debt is like trying to impress Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps by drowning in a pool．Michael Phelps is impressed by good swimming and a money-smart person by good money management．

【1】According to the author, the "new toys" in Paragraph 2 are examples of______.

A. symbol of wealth B. unnecessary purchases

C. impressive stuff D. things available

【2】The underlined words "smart people" in Paragraph 4 refer to people ______.

A. having high IQs B. earning enough money

C. creating new ideas D. managing money well

【3】The author is trying to ______.

A. advise people to be money-smart

B. persuade people to keep off fashions

C. blame people for copying others

D. criticize people for over consumption

【4】According to the author, buying new objects on borrowed money is ________.

A. unwise B. shameful

C. understandable D. impressive

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】本文是一篇議論文。主要告訴我們金融的第一條規(guī)矩就是量入為出的消費(fèi)不超過(guò)80%的實(shí)得工資，也就是說(shuō)如果你帶回家每周100美元,花費(fèi)不超過(guò)80美元。但是作者身邊有很多人卻負(fù)債累累，在經(jīng)濟(jì)上很愚蠢，作者認(rèn)為沒(méi)有必要打動(dòng)他們并列舉了這樣做的原因。

【1】詞義推斷題。由“I have relatives and friends deeply in debt, spending $ 12 for every $ 10 they earn instead of the $ 8 you know they should be spending．”可以得知作者說(shuō)他身邊有很多人負(fù)債累累，超額支出。然后緊接著列出了他們將錢用在了什么地方，買了哪些東西，但是這些東西都是無(wú)用的。故選B

【2】詞義推斷題。由“They're proud of being stupid．They think it's cool to drive the financed car, wear the financed shoes, and watch the financed TV”可以得知，在作者看來(lái)，不會(huì)理財(cái)?shù)娜耸鞘钟薮赖�，但是聰明的人則恰好反之。由此可以推斷出，文章中的“smart people”是指善于理財(cái)?shù)娜恕９蔬xD

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。文章開(kāi)頭的“The First Rule of Finance”告訴我們“量入為出的消費(fèi)不超過(guò)80%的實(shí)得工資”，但是緊接著作者又列舉了身邊很多親戚朋友不理智的消費(fèi)現(xiàn)象，作者認(rèn)為這是非常愚蠢的行為。從后面“Trying to impress a money-smart person by going into debt is like trying to impress Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps by drowning in a pool”可以看出，作者認(rèn)為聰明的人是不會(huì)這樣的，我們應(yīng)該做一個(gè)聰明的人學(xué)會(huì)明智理財(cái)。故選A

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章中的“even when the object in question isn't theirs at all and won't be new when they've finally paid for it, if they ever do”以及前文可以得知，人們借錢去買東西，用來(lái)攀比或炫耀，哪怕東西不是新的，也會(huì)支付。在作者看來(lái)，這樣的行為是非常不明智的。故選A

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