2014届高三英语二轮专题复习拔高训练：社会现象类阅读理解19.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题复习拔高训练：社会现象类阅读理解19 1.In today’s uncertain economic times, understanding money matters is more important than ever. But America’s education system is not doing a good job of teaching financial literacy （财务知识）. The inventors of a board game called Nest Egg hope their approach can get high school students off on the right financial foot. Most of the 13 New York City high school kids who recently gathered around a table to play Nest Egg had never thought about personal finance before. Erin Kanter, head of marketing for Nest Egg, acts as the banker during the game. The kids form small teams and each team acts as a financial advisor for an imaginary young couple that wants to buy a home or set up a college fund for their child. It’s up to the players to help them build their savings for the future and achieve those goals. A roll of the dice （骰子） can bring an unexpected piece of good fortune or a disaster. In New York, the Department of Youth and Community Development is experimenting with the game. If today’s experiment goes well, Nest Egg could be played in after-school community centers and possibly in high schools later on. Osorio and his colleagues say poor money management is at least part of the reason for this statistic: 40 percent of New York City public school graduates who go on to one of the city’s colleges drop out within two years. Nest Egg has already been introduced into the high school curriculum 3, 000 kilometers away in Corpus Christi, Texas. Carol Loeb teaches economics at King High School and says it used to be hard to get her students to grasp concepts they had no experience with. But that all changed with Nest Egg. She recalls one student who was failing when his class started playing the game. 揟hat was the first time the whole semester this kid had come alivey, ?Loeb saysh. 揌e could not wait to get in the classroomr. He came in and told me what he had thought about the night before, what he wanted to do, what he wanted to invest in