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Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
I was only ten, but Mom couldn’t put off the Talk any longer. “I think,” she began, “that you should start investing some of that money you have saved.”
高考分数怎么查Does a ten-year-old child really need to know the financial facts of life? As immigrants with little money, my parents were convinced that the time to teach children about investment building was as early as possible. They wanted my brother and me to get a head start on that long road to financial stability.
Two years earlier my parents had helped me open my first bank account, and now my mother was introducing me to mutual funds. An enthusiastic pupil, I was soon contributing income from my paper route towards my investments.
Then, later, as a high-school student with university on the horizon, I began to wonder how I
could possibly afford the $2,200-a-year tuition. I had decided to major in sciences, with the aim of going on to medical school. In other words, there were a lot of years of tuition ahead of me.
Clearly, it was time to step up my investing planning. I read investment magazines carefully and thoroughly for money-making advice. My comfort level grew, as did my investment. At the end of high school, I was able to pay for my university tuition. In fact, the proceeds of that investment supported me much of the way through medical school.
Since Mom’s first chat nearly two decades ago, I have come a long way as an investor. Above all, I have seen firsthand how smart investing can help you reach important goals in life. It’s partly thanks to the good financial habits I picked up as a child that I’m enjoying a medical residency on Edmonton today----thanks, in other words, to my money-wise Mom and Dad.
1. When  the writer’s parents opened his first bank account, the writer __________ years old？
2. The time when the writer could afford his university tuition was _______________________.
3. Why did the writer’s mother encourage the writer to learn to invest?
4. What did the writer learn from the investment?
Section Ｄ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
Thirty-two people watched Kitty Brown being killed beneath their windows. She was their neighbor. Yet none of them helped her. Not one even called the police. Was this inhuman cruelty? Was it lack of feeling about one’s fellow men?
“ Not so.” Say scientists John Darley and Bibb Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to prove the reasons why people didn’t act. They found that a person has to go
through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice that there is an emergency.
Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall down to the sidewalk. Is he having a heart attack? Or is he about to sleep off a drunk.
Is the smoke coming into the room from a leak in the air conditioning? Is it “Steam pipes”? or is it really smoke from a fire? It’s not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency.
Second , and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally responsible. He must feel that he must help or the person won’t get the help he needs.
The researchers found a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students in to be “tested”. Some came alone. Some came in large groups. The receptionist started them off on the “test”. Then she went into the next room. A curtain divided the “testing room” and the room which she wanted. Soon the students heard the scream, the noise of file cabinets falling and a cry for help. All of this had been pre-recorded and on a tape-recorder.
Eight out of ten  students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two out ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped.
1. When the students in the “test” heard the “scream” or “the “cry for help”. The ones who most often acted were those _________________________________________________________.
2. What are the two steps before he can help?
3. In what circumstances didn’t the “tested” students act to help?
4. The main purpose of this passage proves the reasons __________________________________
  when they saw or heard someone facing danger.
Section Ｄ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
  Being able to multitask—doing several things at the same time—is considered as a  welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we should think again.