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 possessions. It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have well-developed plans to preserve and pass on their possessions to their children”.
The majority of the 457 people surveyed are self-made, first-generation rich. Fifty-two percent of parents have not 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 attractive women who use their looks to get money from rich men.
Only 34 percent 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，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 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 effect,” 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.”
小題1: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
小題2: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．a(chǎn)re confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth
小題3:The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to                 ．
A．responsible children
B．Bill Gates and his wife
C．first-generation rich
D．rich parents
小題4: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 effect of charity on society
C．the way of giving back to society
D．the importance of independence for children

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:D

試題分析：
小題1:推理題，由本文的主要意思“美國人不把家產(chǎn)給孩子”可以知道在美國富裕父母與富裕小孩不平等，所以選B
小題2:推理題，由第四段They are worried that their children would become lazy, spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for attractive women who use their looks to get money from rich men.可以知道父母很懷疑孩子掌握財富的能力，所以選C
小題3:推理題，由句子There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that…是個從句，先行詞是the wealthy parents，所以他們是富裕的父母，所以選D
小題4:推理題，由比爾蓋茨所說的話“可以給孩子一些錢，但不是所有，他們將需要工作，讓他們知道它們被很好地照顧”，可以知道獨立對于孩子很重要，所以選D
點評：本文調(diào)查了美國富裕的父母不把家長給自己的孩子，先通讀全文，然后帶著問題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據(jù)，完成閱讀。本文主要考查推理題，要求學生有很強的推理分析能力。
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