ABen Carson,a doctor at Johns Hopkins Children′s Center,talks about how he grew up in a poor Detroit neighborhood, where peer(同龄人) pressure ahnost controlled his behavior even his clothes. He wanted so badly to be considered cool that he begged his mother to buy him an expensive Italian shirt. "My mother made me a deal," Carson remembers. " She said, ′ I′ll give you all the money I make next week. You′ll be in charge of the family finances--buying food other necessities paying the bills. Whatever you have left over you can spend on whatever you want. ′ " "I thought,this is going to be great," Carson says. "I bought things we needed most then began going through the bills. Of course I ran completely out of money long before everything was paid. " "Then I realized my mother, with her third-grade education, was a financial genius (理财能手 )--just to keep food on our table clothes on our backs with such a small sum of money. I′d been a fool. I wanted her to buy me a $ 75 shirt when she only took home $ 100 a week,cleaning other people′s floors washing their toilets. I took a hard look at my behavior wondered why I could be so selfish. " "I started studying again. My grades went back up to As. Some of my peers laughed at me because I did not follow their pattern. But I refused to let that trouble me, because I had a goal. " The experience had a lasting effect. "I not only saw felt the difference my mother made in my life,I am living out(实现) that difference as a man. " 40. By saying "My mother made me a deal", Ben Carson meant that his mother__________. 查看材料A.refused to buy him the shirt
Bmade an agreement with him
Casked him to deal with the problem
Dshowed him how to save money
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A
答案解释：
作者在第一段中说她原来是非常喜欢伦敦的。 但是在那儿住了17年以后却改变了看法以下四段谈到由于看到人们的素养、公共场所、个人安全、亲情关系等几个方面的变化，她对伦敦感到不那么习惯了。因此A项“is not used to the life there now”为正确答案。
