How much pocket money do you get from your parents each week? Is it growing in recent years?

If it is, then you are luckier than kids in Britain. According to reports, they are getting less and less pocket money. British researchers did a survey of 1,204 children between 8 and 15 years old. They found the average amount (平均数) of pocket money for British kids was about 5.8 pounds a week in 2010. In 2009, it was 6.2 pounds and in 2003, parents gave their children an average of 6.7 pounds a week. To the researchers’ surprise, they find that boys get more pocket money than girls. Boys get 6.9 pound every week while 6.1 is given to girls.

However, children are not too worried about it.Almost half of them believe they get the right amount. Only 42 percent say they would like to have more pocket money.

Most kids like to compare their pocket money with their friends. In the survey, 37 percent believe their friends get more money than they do.

_____________.10 percent of the British kids save all their pocket money. 25 percent save at least half. 35 percent say they will save money to buy something they really want.“It is good to develop the habit of saving at a young age,” said Flavia Palacios Uman, one of the researchers, “you may benefit (受益) later in life because your savings will add up over time.”

1.Recently, British children are getting ________ pocket money..

A. more and more B. the same C. less and less D. no

2.The average amount of monthly pocket money for girls is ________.

A. 6.9 pounds B. 27.6 pounds C. 6.1 pounds D. 24.4 pounds

3.Which of the following is the best for the missing part “________” in paragraph 5.

A. British kids keep the good habit of saving

B. Kids like to compare their pocket money with their friends

C. British kids only save money at a young age

D. There are many ways for Chinese kids to save their money

4.We can infer (推断) from the passage that________.

A. Chinese kids are less lucky than British kids

B. among the three years, the kids got the least pocket money in 2003

C. all British kids like to save their money

D. it’s good for children to develop the habit of saving at a young age

Long time ago, there is a princess (公主). Her mother, the queen, gives her a pair of beautiful shoes on her birthday.

One day, the princess can’t find this pair of shoes. “I lost my beautiful shoes!” she says.

A small frog comes to the princess. “I can find your shoes.” the frog says. “But you must be my friend.” “Easy!” the princess says. “I will do that.”

The next day, the frog finds that pair of shoes. “Now we can be friends.” he says. The princess does not say “Thank you!” to the frog. “Hey! You say you will be my friend!” says the frog. But the princess just runs away.

In the evening, after the princess has her dinner with her parents, the frog comes to them. The queen asks, “Who are you?” The frog says, “Good evening. I’m a frog. I want the princess to be my friend. She promises me to be my friend.” The princess says, “I don’t want to make friends with an ugly (丑陋的) frog!” But the queen says to her, “A promise is a promise. It’s something you must do after you say it.”

1.The princess doesn’t want to make friends with the frog because ________.

A. she lost her shoes B. she promises the frog

C. the frog is ugly D. she doesn’t want to say “Thank you!”

2.The underlined word “promise” means ________.

A. 欺骗 B. 承诺 C. 欣赏 D. 背叛

3.What do you think the queen will do next?

A. She will let the frog go.

B. She will run away with the princess.

C. She will be the frog’s friend.

D. She will ask the princess to be the frog’s friend.

I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not________Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d got?” Just when I started to accept that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women turned up at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. What a________I felt! I would no longer have to be satisfied when I returned to school. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody had thought ________of me to bring me a gift.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my first Christmas there special and memorable, I________the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of importance for as many children as I could possibly__________.

So I came up with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans ( 孤 儿 ) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages ________with toys, clothes, and school things with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were__________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I reminded them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally, the _______they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles lit up the room. I know for sure the_________wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling I had from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. ________ thought of me. I matter.

1.A. send B. receive C. make D. exchange

2.A. relief B. loss C. pity D. regret

3.A. highly B. little C. poorly D. enough

4.A. believed B. recalled C. memorized D. impressed

5.A. touch B. collect C. reach D. spread

6.A. mixed B. decorated C. covered D. filled

7.A. fine B. special C. helpful D. normal

8.A. chance B. plan C. moment D. luck

9.A. shock B. joy C. interest D. trouble

10.A. Nobody B. Anybody C. Somebody D. Everybody

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