12．Every month，Julia and her cousins would go to visit their grandparents．They would be excited because their grandfather would give them a few coins．Then they would buy toys or sweets．The grandparents commented that，behaving like this，the children would never learn to manage their money．So they planned a special test，in which the children would have to show，over the course of a year，just what they could manage to get with those few coins．
Some thought that they would save their money，but Ruben and Nico continued spending it all on sweets．So they give up saving．
Monty decided to manage his money by exchanging it：buying and selling things，or betting （打賭） it with others．Soon he surprised the whole family．He had accumulated （積聚） lots of money．However，Monty was not very careful，and he got involved in more and more risky deals．A few months later he became penniless after a losing bet．Alex，had a will of iron．He saved the money and at the end of the year he had collected more money than anyone．Even better，with so much money，he managed to buy sweets at a reduced price，so that on the day of the competition he was presented with enough sweets for much more than a year．And even then，he still had enough left over for a toy．He was the clear winner，and other children learned the advantages of knowing how to save and how to wait．
There was also Julia．Poor Julia didn't enjoy the competition，because even though she had had a wonderful secret plan，she had spent her money without giving her plan enough time to work．However，she was so sure that her plan was a good one，that she decided to carry on with it，and maybe change the expressions on her relatives'faces，who had seemed to be saying"What a poor girl shel is．She couldn't manage to save anything"．
When she was about to complete the second year of her plan，Julia surprised everyone by turning up at the grandparents'house with a violin and a lot of money．She did it really well．
24．Who saved nothing at the end of the first year？B
A．Ruben，Julia and Alex
B．Ruben，Nico and Monty
C．Ruben，Monty and Julia
D．Ruben，Nico and Alex
25．Why did the grandparents plan a test on the children？C
A．Because they wanted the children to learn to spend money．
B．Because they wanted the children to learn to save money．
C．Because they wanted the children to learn to manage money．
D．Because they didn't want the children to buy toys and sweets any more．
26．From Monty's story，the children learnedD．
A．to save and to wait．
B．to buy and to sell things
C．to set a achievable goal．
D．to be careful and self-disciplined
27．The underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph meansB．
A．Julia will bring disasters to herself and her family．
B．Julia is not good at managing money．
C．Julia is too stupid to do anything well．
D．Julia has so many secrets that nobody likes her．
分析 本文為一篇記敘文．講述了爺爺奶奶試圖教導(dǎo)孫子們?nèi)绾卫碡?cái)?shù)墓适拢吹綄O子們一拿到錢就花掉，爺爺奶奶計(jì)劃了一場特殊的比賽，那就是看每個(gè)人能用手里的幾個(gè)硬幣在一年的時(shí)間里收獲多少東西．通過這個(gè)比賽孩子們明白了原來好好計(jì)劃的話，很少的錢也可以帶來意想不到的收獲和驚喜，甚至還能實(shí)現(xiàn)自己的夢想．
解答 24．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第二段和第三段的描述，可知Ruben和Nico放棄了攢錢，Monty把攢的錢都輸光了，唯有Alex意志堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，攢到了錢．故選B．
25．C．推理判斷題．根據(jù)文章第一段"So they planned a special test，in which the children would have to show，over the course of a year，just what they could manage to get with those few coins"可知爺爺奶奶試圖教導(dǎo)孫子們?nèi)绾卫碡?cái)?shù)墓适拢蔬xC．
26．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第三段中的"He was the clear winner，and other children learned the advantages of knowing how to save and how to wait．"，可知孩子們懂得省錢和等待的好處，即學(xué)會省錢和自律．故選D．
27．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)前面"想要改變親戚臉上的表情"，可知是親戚們對她沒有好印象，說她不會理財(cái)．故選B．
點(diǎn)評 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力，做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句，和題干進(jìn)行比較，再做出正確的選擇．在做推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí)，要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷．
