Listen this way听力教程答案4(8)

Listen this way听力教程答案4

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10 √ √ Part 2 National teach children to save day

A: Time: Thursday, April 17

Purpose: teaching children how to save money

Way of teaching: 2500 bankers making 5000 presentations

B: 1. Making savings visible and real: building up savings in a piggy bank/ opening children’s own bank savings account.

2. Encouraging children to save as much as they can: putting 25 cents away for every dollar the children earn

3. A first step toward learning to budget: giving children an allowance and part of it going

into their own savings.

4. Making savings and investing fun: giving children play money to “invest” in stocks they can track in local newspapers

Part 3 Credit cards

A: Outline

1. The importance of credit cards

2. Nature

A. “charge” —paying at a later date

B: “limit”

3. The potential disadvantages—expensive

A. easy to make lots of purchases on card

B. likely to pay a tremendous amount of interest

4. The benefits

B. helpful for emergencies

C. good for travel

Part 4 More about the topic

A: Exercise 1

Column A Column B

1. 3

2 1

3 2

Exercise 2: Answer the following two questions.

1. “Spending priorities” refers to the following situation:

Americans are spending so much of their income on ever larger houses and cars that they can’t afford to spend on social programs or infrastructure repairs.

2. By doing so, one would feel happier, would have fewer disputes of work and lower levels of stress hormones in their blood. One gets sick less often and dies at an older age.

B: Summary:

Mr. Cox, the vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,…, of Myths of Rich and Poor, sees the positive side to the increased prosperity of … Americans are