高一上册英语译林必修第一册检测：Unit+2+（二）Grammar+and+usage+Word版含解析.doc

Unit 2　课下题型练(二) Grammar and usage
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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BEIJING (News Agency) — Children in China today spend five times more money than their parents did when they were young.
So what are all these children buying？The list is long：iPads, cell phones and jeans are typical items that children “have to” buy. And they will do anything to get them. They ask their parents over and over until they buy them.
But parents also need to take the blame for spending so much money. They want their children to have the best things. They end up competing with other parents over whether their children have the latest products.
So it's no wonder children find it hard to learn the importance of saving money rather than spending it all the time.
And it's hard to save when companies use advertising (广告) and clever slogans to encourage young people to buy their products. They even encourage children to keep asking their parents for something until they get it.
Today, you don't even need to have money in order to buy some things. Banks give out credit cards and loans (贷款) all the time, so people are saving less and less. We are used to carrying lots of money around. And if you don't have much, you can always borrow some.
But this hasn't always been the case. When our grandparents were young, there was very little money and everyone had to save hard for things they bought. They only bought things they nee