考研英语经济学人文章阅读训练四十二

Growing up in a city weakens the brain’s navigational skills在城市中长大会削弱大脑的寻路能力Country folk can find their way more easily农村人更容易找到路Rural folk can blame Aesop—of the moralising fables—for centuries of stories that mock them as bumpkins.The ancient Greek storyteller’s tale of the Country Mouse and the Town Mouse was only the first to emphasise their supposed simpler tastes and habits when compared with more sophisticated urbanites.农村人对伊索（的道德说教寓言）或许是心怀怨恨的，因为在流传了几个世纪的寓言故事里，他们总是被当做乡巴佬而受到嘲笑。

这位古希腊故事家创作的寓言故事《乡下老鼠和城里老鼠》最早着重描绘了农村人（相比精致的城里人而言）的纯朴品味和习性。

So listen for the cheers from Somerset to Kansas as neuroscientists announce that,in fact,it is city living that can dull the wits—at least when it comes to finding one’s way in the world.所以，当神经科学家们宣布，城市生活实际可能会让头脑变得迟钝（至少就寻路而言）时，请听听从萨默塞特到堪萨斯州传来的欢呼声吧。

Growing up in a city,a vast global survey has found,has a lifelong negative impact on a person’s ability to navigate.When looking for a half-remembered restaurant in a poorly-lit side street,it seems Country Mouse would be a more useful companion.一项大规模的全球调查发现，在城市中长大会对一个人的寻路能力产生终身的负面影响。

Diageo last week took a majority stake in Seedlip, a non-alcoholic spirit sold as an alternative to gin — a move seen by analysts as the drinks giant’s attempt to grab more of the growing teetotal market. The young are more abstemious than their elders, and manufacturers and marketers need to keep up.帝亚吉欧(Diageo)不久前收购了Seedlip的多数股权，这是一种被作为金酒替代品出售的无酒精型烈酒——市场分析师们将此举解读为酒业巨头试图在日益扩张的无酒精饮料市场中分一杯羹。

年轻一代相对于他们的长辈在饮酒方面更加节制，酒类生产商和营销机构必须跟上这种趋势。

For those of us who don’t drink or, in my case, only occasionally, a reduction in others’ drinking, along with a fall in the antisocial consequences, is a welcome development. At a wedding in Italy this summer, I marvelled as a group of Italian and French guests partied under a hot afternoon sun and late into the night, without anyone staggering or slurring in the way they would inevitably have done in the UK.对于我们当中那些不喝酒——或者以我自己为例——仅偶尔喝一杯的人来说，他人饮酒量的下降，以及与之相随的危害社会公共利益问题的减少，是一种令人愉快的新变化。

The Guardian view on plastics: a treaty could stem the tide《卫报》关于塑料的观点：一项条约可以遏制这个趋势There is no data on global plastic pollution that is equivalent to the regular measurements of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere. But as with greenhouse gases, the recent news has been nearly all bad. In 1950, worldwide production of plastics stood at 2m tons per year. In 2020, it was 367m tons (down from 368m the year before due to the coronavirus pandemic). An increase this enormous is hard to visualise. But the 8.8m tons of plastic waste that is estimated to enter the world’s marine environment each year is the equivalent of a rubbish truck filled with plastic being tipped into the sea every minute.关于全球塑料污染，目前还没有与地球大气中二氧化碳的常规测量值相当的数据。

但和温室气体一样，最近的消息几乎都是坏的。

1950年，全球塑料产量达到每年200万吨。

2020年，这一数字为3.67亿吨（由于新冠肺炎疫情，它比前一年的3.68亿吨有所下降）。

A global house-price slump is coming全球房价即将暴跌It won’t blow up the financial system, but it will be scary虽然不会摧毁金融体系，但仍然令人恐慌Over the past decade owning a house has meant easy money. Prices rose reliably for years and then went bizarrely ballistic in the pandemic. Yet today if your wealth is tied up in bricks and mortar it is time to get nervous.过去十年里，拥有一套房就意味着轻松赚钱。

房价多年来一直稳步上涨，甚至在疫情期间还异乎寻常地飙升了。

然而现如今，如果你的财富被套牢在房产上，那你应该感到紧张了。

House prices are now falling in nine rich economies. The drops in America are small so far, but in the wildest markets they are already dramatic. In condo-crazed Canada homes cost 9% less than they did in February.九个发达经济体的房价都在下跌。

到目前为止，美国房价的跌幅还不大，但最疯狂的市场的房价跌幅已经非常大了。

在热衷于共管公寓的加拿大，房价较今年2月下跌了9%。

As inflation and recession stalk the world a deepening correction is likely—even estate agents are gloomy. Although this will not detonate global banks as in 2007-09, it will intensify the downturn, leave a cohort of people with wrecked finances and start a political storm.随着通货膨胀和经济衰退的风险在全球范围内蔓延，房价或将迎来一场深度调整——甚至房地产经纪人也对此感到悲观。

Rethinking sick leave反思病假制度Attitudes towards employee illness are out of step with the times对待生病员工的态度与时代脱节The global spread of covid-19has led to calls for those who might be infected with the new disease to“self-isolate”at home.That could prove a threat to economic activity.It also represents a terrible dilemma for workers,some of whom could face financial hardship if they don’t turn up.随着新冠病毒在全球范围内的传播，人们呼吁那些可能感染了这种新疾病的人待在家里进行“自我隔离”。

但这可能会对经济活动造成威胁，同时也会让员工们陷入两难的境地，一些员工如果不去上班可能将面临经济困难。

The quandary is all the greater when the disease is unfamiliar,with symptoms that are often mild,at first,and resemble common ailments. And if,like a quarter of all Americans working in the private sector, employees get no paid sick leave at all,they are more likely to take the risk and attend.而当这种疾病不为人熟知，最初的症状很轻微，并且类似于普通疾病时，人们更是会感到左右为难。

One afternoon in April 2020, I took an old bamboo rod out of my shed and cut it to a length of 115cm. Stood on the ground, it came about halfway up my chest. I laid it on a scrubby patch of our garden on the island of Aegina, in Greece: one end next to a tough-looking dandelion, the other pointed northwards. Then I dug up the dandelion with a trowel and replanted it at the other end of the stick. A small step for humans, but quite the leap for the dandelion.2020年4月的一个下午，我从棚子里拿出一根旧竹竿，把它切成了115厘米的长度。

立在地上，它的长度大概是到我胸部高度的一半。

我把它搁在花园中的一小片灌木丛生的土地上，花园位于希腊的埃吉纳岛（Aegina）上。

竹竿的一端挨着一株看上去很强韧的蒲公英，另一端朝着北方。

随后我用泥铲把蒲公英挖了出来，再把它重新种进竹竿另一端的土里。

对人类来说，这是一小步的距离，但对蒲公英而言却是一次不小的跃进。

This 115cm corresponds to a particular measurement. It is the present average velocity of climate change — how fast the effects of global heating are moving across the surface of the planet — and thus represents the speed we need to move in order for the conditions around us to stay the same. It also implies a direction: the bubble habitats where different forms of life can survive and thrive are moving uphill, and towards the poles.这115厘米所对应的是一个特定的尺寸。

Why Do Trucks Use Diesel Fuel Instead of Gasoline?为什么卡车要烧柴油而不是汽油?Putting diesel in your regular gas-guzzling automobile isn’t just a waste of money—it can also cause some problems for your car. For semis and other trucks, however, diesel is just what the doctor (or mechanic, rather) ordered. And that’s because those types of vehicles typically have diesel engines, rather than gasoline engines.往你那烧汽油的车里加柴油不仅浪费钱，而且还会给你的汽车带来一些问题。

然而，对于半挂车和其他卡车来说，柴油就是医生（或者说机械师）开的处方。

这是因为这些类型的车辆通常使用柴油发动机，而非汽油发动机。

One big difference between the two engines is how they turn fuel into energy. According to Engineering Explained, gas engines usually use a spark plug to ignite the mixture of fuel and air in the cylinder.这两种发动机之间最大的区别就是将燃料转化为动能的方式。

根据《汽车机械小百科》的解释，汽油发动机通常使用火花塞来点燃气缸内燃料和空气的混合物。

But diesel engines compress the air until it reaches a high enough temperature that the fuel will ignite as soon as it gets injected into the cylinder. In order to heat the air to that point, a diesel engine needs an especially high compression ratio: the cylinder’s volume when the piston is at its highest point compared to the volume when the piston is at its lowest point.而柴油发动机会压缩空气，直到空气达到足够高的温度，燃料一进入气缸就会点燃。

Britain’s young face a poorer future英国年轻一代面临更加贫穷的未来Economic statistics will never fully capture the extent of the sacrifices of Britain’s youth during the pandemic. For a generation of students and pupils it was a lost chance to make friends, explore who they are and, gradually, become adults — as well as to learn, in person. In the face of the deaths in the broader population, it is easy to dismiss as frivolous the setbacks of those who missed partying, travelling and dating during the long months stuck inside but these are still years of carefree youth they will not get back. What is more, most of these privations were primarily to protect those from older generations, the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.经济统计数字将永远不能完全反映出英国青年在这场大流行病中牺牲了多少。

对于这一代学生来说，他们失去了结交朋友、探索自我并逐渐成长为人,以及亲身学习的机会。

在有人死于新冠疫情之际，我们很容易认为被困在室内长达数月而错过聚会、旅行和约会的人所经历的这些挫折无关痛痒，但这是他们再也无法重返的无忧无虑的青春时光。

How to think about gamification如何看待游戏化The world of badges, streaks and leaderboards徽章、打卡和排行榜的世界The mopei phone-swing device is ingeniously depressing. It is a cradle for smartphones that rocks back and forth when it is plugged in, and it is designed to cheat fitness apps into believing that you are on the move.MoPei 手机摇步器是一个巧妙的小装置。

这是一个智能手机的摇篮，接上电源后便可以前后摇晃，它的设计目的是让健身应用误以为你在运动。

If you have a step counter, this phone shaker can gull it into thinking you have taken 8,700 paces in an hour. “Ideal for those people who don’t have the time or energy to get your recommended steps in,” boasts the product blurb.如果你有一个计步器，这个摇步器就可以骗过它，让它误以为你在一个小时内走了8700步。

该产品的宣传语吹嘘道：“这个产品是那些没有时间和精力完成推荐步数的人的最佳选择。

”Such cheating is pointless but not uncommon. Blog posts run through ways to trick a Fitbit into recording exercise, from strapping it to your children to swinging it on a piece of string. Strava is an app for runners and cyclists to record their times; becoming the fastest rider on a course segment is a lot easier if you use a motorbike.这种作弊行为毫无意义，但并不少见。

Urban Laotians pay handsomely for ant-egg soup老挝城里人为吃蚂蚁蛋汤而出手阔绰But will young people retain a taste for this nutritious tradition?但年轻人会爱上这种营养丰富的传统美食吗？“You wouldn’t serve this to the king,”says Dalaphone Pholsena,a restaurateur in Vientiane.Before her are two small bowls of ant-egg soup, a favourite dish of the late summer in Laos.In it are chunks of white fish, meaty mushrooms and dozens of splayed and lifeless ants.万象一家餐馆的老板达拉丰·菲尔塞纳说：“你一定不会将这道菜献给国王的。

”摆在她面前的是两小碗蚂蚁蛋汤（夏末时节老挝人最爱吃的美食）。

汤里有大块的鱼肉、鲜嫩的蘑菇以及几十只舒展身躯、毫无生气的蚂蚁。

Bobbing at the surface is the pièce de résistance:clusters of ivory-white eggs that look like tiny white beans.They burst in the mouth like fish roe, but with a more acidic tang.漂浮在汤面上的才是这道菜肴的关键所在：一簇簇象牙色的蚂蚁蛋，看起来像小小的白豆粒。

当你在嘴里咀嚼时，它们像鱼籽一样会爆裂开来，但味道比鱼籽更酸一些。

Ms Dalaphone considers herself a defender of the dishes traditionally eaten by Laos’s subsistence farmers—of which there are still many. Ant-egg soup is a classic:both an important source of protein and an emblem of rural life.达拉丰自视为蚂蚁蛋汤的拥趸者，蚂蚁蛋汤是老挝仅能糊口的农民（如今，老挝仍有许多这样的农民）爱吃的一道传统美食。

China’s “dreamchild” is stealthily winning the battery race中国“梦之子”悄然引领电池竞赛In America, if you want to dominate an industry, you channel your inner Elon Musk and shout about it. But CATL, the Chinese company that makes batteries for some of Mr Musk’s Tesla electric vehicles (EVs), is different. When your columnist first contacted it in 2017, the brush-off was swift.在美国，如果你想主宰一个行业，你就得调动自己内心的埃隆·马斯克并大声咆哮。

但为马斯克的部分特斯拉电动汽车供应电池的中国公司宁德时代则不同。

当笔者在2017年第一次与该公司取得联系时，对方直接拒绝了我们的采访。

“We want to concentrate on our products only and do not accept any interviews at present.” These days it is only marginally less blunt. “Unfortunately, we are sorry that it’s hard for us to arrange [interviews] at the moment.” The temptation is to give it a dose of its own medicine and ignore it.“我们只想专注于我们的产品，目前不接受任何采访。

”如今，该公司的态度没有过去那么生硬了，但也只是稍微缓和。

Goodbye casino,hello smugglers赌场再见，走私者你好A tiny Italian exclave unwillingly joins the EU’s customs union一块小小的意大利飞地不情愿地加入了欧盟海关联盟Campione d’Italia,a little piece of Italy inside Switzerland意大利金皮庸，瑞士境内的一小块意大利领地“We feel completely abandoned,”says Giancarlo Bortoli,as a cormorant skims behind him to land on Lake Lugano.A retired croupier,Mr Bortoli is a citizen of one of Europe’s least-known micro-territories:Campione d’Italia,an exclave of Italy within Switzerland.“我们似乎被彻底抛弃了，”吉安卡洛·博尔托利说道，一只鸬鹚从他身后掠过并停在了卢加诺湖的湖面上。

博尔托利是一位退休的赌场管理员，也是金皮庸（欧洲最鲜为人知的袖珍领地，瑞士境内的意大利飞地）的一位居民。

With fewer than2,000residents,the exclave results from a territorial adjustment in the16th century.Like similar geopolitical oddities, Campione has a colourful past.这块仅有不到2000人口的飞地是16世纪一次领土调整的结果。

就如同类似的地缘政治奇观一般，金皮庸有着丰富多彩的过去。

Its casino,owned by the local government,was founded in1917, reputedly to help tease intelligence out of off-duty diplomats in the first world war.Among those who later found it convenient to establish themselves in Campione was Howard Marks,one of the world’s biggest cannabis-smugglers.金皮庸有着一家创建于1917年、由当地政府所有的赌场，赌场的设立据说是为了在第一次大战期间从下班的外交官那里获取情报。

A new study finds preschool can be detrimental to children一项新的研究发现，学前教育对孩子可能并没有好处But the picture may not be as gloomy as it seems但前景或许并不那么悲观Free, universal preschool for three- and four-year-olds is a key component of the Democrats’ agenda. Proponents say pre-kindergarten, or pre-K, education can be transformative for children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. A new study seems to contradict this.为三、四岁儿童提供免费、普及的学前教育是民主党议程的一个关键组成部分。

支持者表示，学前教育对儿童（尤其是对那些来自弱势家庭的儿童来说）能够起到变革性作用。

一项新的研究似乎得出了与之相矛盾的结论。

It finds that children who attended a pre-K programme in Tennessee actually scored worse on a range of education and behavioural measures. Yet this might reflect general improvements in early education rather than the impact of one programme.该研究发现，在田纳西州参加学前教育项目的儿童实际上在一系列教育和行为指标上得分更低。

不过，这可能反映了早期教育的普遍改善，而不是一个项目的影响。

2011年考研英语阅读理解新题型答案本次研究生入学英语考试的新题型是一道排序题，原文摘自《经济学人》，现在就让我们一起来看看本题原题及标准答案。

Directions:The following paragraph are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G to filling them into the numbered boxes. Paragraphs E and G have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)[A] No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities. You can, Mr Menand points out, became a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four. But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years. Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.[B] His concern is mainly with the humanities: Literature, languages, philosophy and so on. These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English. However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should posses. But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like. At Harvard, Mr Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”-they form a sort of social glue.[C] Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school. There are simply too few posts. This is partly because universities continue to produce ever more PhDs. But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-71 than they did 20 years later. Fewer students requires fewer teachers. So, at the end of a decade of theses-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.[D] One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is thatthey can cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts educations and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools. Many students experience both varieties. Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study anon-specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.[E] Besides professionalizing the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor. The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll. Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969a third of American professors did not possess one. But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialization are transmissible but not transferable.”So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.[F] The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr Menand, is to alter the way in which “the producers of knowledge are produced.”Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticize.”Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.”Yet quite how that happens, Mr Menand dose not say.[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curious has been happening in American Universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.【标准答案】41. B 42. D 43. A 44. C 45.F。

Plastic surgeons make a bundle despite Lebanon’s economic crisis尽管黎巴嫩遭遇经济危机，但整形外科医生还是赚了一大笔钱Many people have no jobs. Others, nose jobs许多人失业了，除了隆鼻医生Rhinoplasty has long been a rite of passage in Lebanon. Teenage girls want a dainty new nose in time for their graduation parties, celebrated in selfies. Lebanon’s many woes have not hindered the habit.隆鼻手术一直以来都是黎巴嫩人的一种成人礼。

十几岁的女孩想要一个精致的新鼻子，以便在毕业派对上自拍庆祝。

黎巴嫩的许多苦难并没有妨碍这种习惯。

Plastic surgeons are apparently making as much as or more than they did before an economic crisis, starting in 2019, that the World Bank has ranked as the third-worst anywhere, ever.从2019年开始，整形外科医生的收入显然与经济危机（世界银行将其列为有史以来最严重的第三大经济危机）前持平，甚至更高。

The World Health Organisation reckons that Lebanon’s economic meltdown prompted nearly 40% of the country’s doctors to leave. But for those who have stayed, the pickings, especially for nose jobs, may have increased. The pool of patients has stayed the same. There are fewer dexterous doctors to paddle in it.世界卫生组织估计，黎巴嫩的经济崩溃促使该国近40%的医生离开。

What are the keys to a successful life?成功的关键是什么?No matter what your goals are in life, there is one great law that you need to obey in order to be successful: No one else is going to climb the ladder of success for you. No one else is responsible for your health, wealth, happiness, or success. From the day you leave your parents’ house and start to make your own choices, you are responsible for your life and the choices you make.无论你的人生目标是什么，要想成功，你必须遵守一条伟大的法则：没有人会替你登上成功的阶梯。

没有人会对你的健康、财富、幸福或成功负责。

从你离开父母家开始做出自己的选择的那一天起，你就要对自己的生活和选择负责。

You choose the job you work in, the person you live with, and how much you exercise every day. Only you can choose how you spend your time, and the decisions you make on a consistent basis will make or break your life.你可以选择你的工作、与你一起生活的另一伴以及每天的运动量。

只有你自己可以选择如何分配你的时间，而你所做的决定将会成就或毁掉你的生活。

Housework may promote health in old age, study suggests研究表明，做家务可以促进老年健康Household chores might seem a drag, but researchers have suggested tasks like dusting, scrubbing floors and washing the windows might help adults to stay healthy into old age.家务事或许看起来很累人，但研究人员表示，清扫灰尘、拖地和擦窗户等家务活可能有助于人们在老了之后保持身体健康。

Writing in the journal BMJ Open, a Singapore-based team of researchers said regular physical activity “improves physical and mental health, mitigates the risks and effects of chronic diseases, and reduces falls, immobility, dependency and mortality among older adults”.新加坡的一个研究团队在《英国医学杂志》上发表论文称，定期体育锻炼“可以改善身心健康，减轻慢性疾病的风险和影响，减少老年人跌倒、瘫痪、失去独立生活能力以及死亡的风险”。

The team randomly recruited adults from the town of Yishun in Singapore, and asked them to complete cognitive function tests as well as activities to assess their physical capabilities, such as standing up from a chair as quickly as they could.该研究团队从新加坡义顺区随机招募了一些成年人，对他们进行了认知功能测试，并通过体力活动对他们的体能进行了评估，比如坐在椅子上以最快的速度站起来。

The 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte got it wrong: demography is not destiny.19世纪法国哲学家奥古斯特•孔德错了：人口并不决定命运。

Population trends are some of the strongest forces in economics, affecting global prosperity, the growth of individual nations and the strength of public finances. But reducing the success of countries and regions to their trends in births, deaths and migration is a simplification too far.各种人口趋势是经济学中最强大的一些力量，影响着全球繁荣、单个国家的增长和公共财政的实力。

但是，将国家和区域的成功归结于其出生、死亡和人口移徙趋势是一种过于简单化的做法。

As the coronavirus pandemic has shown, the confident predictions in 2020 of a lockdown baby boom followed by the 2021 fear of a Covid baby bust demonstrate that demographic trends are far less stable than often imagined. Small changes in fertility, mortality and migration can have immense effects.正如新冠疫情所显示的那样，2020年对疫情封锁会带来一波婴儿潮的自信预测，以及接下来的2021年对疫情会造成婴儿荒的担忧，表明人口趋势远没有通常想象的那么稳定。

Surging living costs force Britons to work past retirement age生活成本飙升迫使英国人退休后继续工作The share of older UK workers planning to carry on working in their retirement has nearly doubled in two years due to rising living costs and insufficient pension savings, according to a survey from Abrdn.根据Abrdn的一项调查，由于生活成本上升和养老金储蓄不足，计划退休后继续工作的英国老年员工比例在两年内增加了近一倍。

The investment manager’s stark findings underscore the impact of soaring energy and food prices on household budgets, which is pressuring people’s finances as inflation hits a 30-year high.这家投资管理公司的严峻调查结果凸显出能源和食品价格飙升对家庭预算的影响。

随着通胀触及30年高点，家庭预算正给人们的财务状况带来压力。

Surveying people planning to retire in 2022, Abrdn found that 66 per cent respondents proposed to continue with some form of employment beyond retiring, up from just over 50 per cent in a similar study last year and just 34 per cent in 2020.Abrdn对计划2022年退休的人进行了调查，发现66%的受访者打算在退休后继续从事某种形式的工作，而在去年的一项类似研究中，这一比例略高于50%，而在2020年，这一比例仅为34%。

New apps are teaching children how to manage their money新应用正在教孩子们如何理财Digital piggy banks help kids budget and save数字存钱罐能帮助孩子们做预算以及存钱In2009a group of parents in Lymington,an English coastal town,started sharing worries about their children’s money-management skills.2009年，在英国海滨小镇利明顿，一群家长表达了他们对于子女们理财能力的担忧。

Pocket money was now stashed in a building society rather than a piggy bank;household shopping was done online;the children rarely saw their parents handling cash.They were spending online,too.Money had become intangible.How,then,were children to learn its value?现在大家都把零花钱存在建房互助协会，而不是存在存钱罐里；家庭购物往往也是采取网购的方式了；孩子们很少能看到父母使用现金了，他们也会在网上购物了。

金钱已经变成无形之物了。

那么，孩子们该如何了解金钱的价值呢？（注：building society，建房互助协会，一种类似于银行的机构。

）The answer they came up with was GoHenry,an app now available in America as well as Britain.It is designed to help young people learn good financial habits through real-world money management.家长们最终得出的答案是GoHenry，一款目前已在美国和英国上线的应用。