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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（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 Melinda 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 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.”
【小题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

【小题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．are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth

【小题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

【小题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

Answer 1

【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】D
【小题4】D

解析试题分析：
【小题1】推理题，由本文的主要意思“美国人不把家产给孩子”可以知道在美国富裕父母与富裕小孩不平等，所以选B
【小题2】推理题，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.可以知道父母很怀疑孩子掌握财富的能力，所以选C
【小题3】推理题，由句子There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that…是个从句，先行词是the wealthy parents，所以他们是富裕的父母，所以选D
【小题4】推理题，由比尔盖茨所说的话“可以给孩子一些钱，但不是所有，他们将需要工作，让他们知道它们被很好地照顾”，可以知道独立对于孩子很重要，所以选D
考点：本文为一篇关于调查的短文。
点评：本文调查了美国富裕的父母不把家长给自己的孩子，先通读全文，然后带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。本文主要考查推理题，要求学生有很强的推理分析能力。