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【題目】Parents need to be good role models to help their children make sensible financial decisions, according to Adam Hancock and his team, from East Caronlina University in the US. Their work highlights that parents who argue about finances contribute to increasing credit card debt among their children during their students years. Their work is published online in Springer's Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Credit card debt among college students has been a growing concern for researchers and policymakers over the last decade. In addition, there is growing concern among educators that more students are dropping out of school, not because of academic failure, but because of financial reasons, and credit card especially.

Hancock and colleagues' study is the first to examine how parental interactions, and financial knowledge and attitudes may have a cumulative effect (累積效應(yīng)) on the number of credit cards students own and their level of credit card debt.

The researchers analyzed data for 420 undergraduate students from seven different American universities, who took part in the College Student Financial Literacy Survey. According to the online survey, nearly two-thirds of students had a credit card, and nearly a third had more than one. Those students who reported that their parents argued about finances were more likely to have more than two cards than the students whose parents who did not argue about finances.

In terms of debt, those students who had two or more credit cards were nearly three times more likely to report having credit card debt over $500.

The researchers conclude, "It is clear that the influence of parents cannot be neglected. Researchers, educators and policymakers should work in finding effective ways to increase the positive financial behaviors for college students. We need to help students learn financial skills and establish healthy financial attitudes at earlier ages to prevent poor financial habits from taking root.

【1】In Adam Hancock's research, student's credit card debt is related to their __________.

A. knowledge B. concerns C. school D. parents

【2】When college students have credit card debt, they may __________.

A. quit school

B. fail in their exams

C. study financial knowledge

D. have more credit cards

【3】What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. More than 400 students in a university took the survey.

B. The survey was conducted with the paper questionnaire.

C. Nearly all the students in this survey have credit cards.

D. Students have fewer cards if their parents argue more.

【4】If you have two or more credit cards, you are more likely to __________.

A. get wealthy B. have argument

C. buy more things D. become in debt

【5】As a student, what can you learn from the passage?

A. We need to turn to our parents when we have credit card debt.

B. We should build correct financial attitudes when we are young.

C. We shouldn't have credit cards so that we can avoid argument.

D. We can have more credit cards to make life more comfortable.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】C

【4】D

【5】B

【解析】在過去的十年中，大學(xué)生的信用卡債務(wù)已經(jīng)受到了研究人員和決策者們的關(guān)注。教育家發(fā)現(xiàn),越來(lái)越多的大學(xué)生輟學(xué)不是因?yàn)閷W(xué)業(yè)不及格而是因?yàn)榻鹑诤拓?cái)政問題,特別是信用卡問題。研究后專家們得出結(jié)論,這種情況家長(zhǎng)對(duì)他們的影響是不容忽視的。

【1】D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由"Their work highlights that parents who argue about finances contribute to increasing credit card debt among their children during their students years."可知學(xué)生的信用卡債務(wù)和他們的父母有關(guān)。故選D。

【2】A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由" there is growing concern among educators that more students are dropping out of school, not because of academic failure, but because of financial reasons, and credit card especially."可知大學(xué)生有信用卡債務(wù)時(shí)，他們就可能退學(xué)。故選A。

【3】C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由"According to the online survey, nearly two-thirds of students had a credit card, and nearly a third had more than one."可知在調(diào)查中，幾乎所有學(xué)生都有信用卡。故選C。

【4】D 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由"In terms of debt, those students who had two or more credit cards were nearly three times more likely to report having credit card debt over $500."說明如果你有兩個(gè)或兩個(gè)以上的信用卡，你更有可能負(fù)債。故選D。

【5】B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由"We need to help students learn financial skills and establish healthy financial attitudes at earlier ages to prevent poor financial habits from taking root." 可知我們?cè)谛〉臅r(shí)候就應(yīng)該樹立正確的財(cái)政態(tài)度。故選B。