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and relative needs ,which make us feel superior to our fellows. He thought that although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的) ,this is not true of absolute needs.
Keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending is decided by the desire for
superiority .He was greatly mistaken ,however ,in seeing this desire as the only source of insatiable
demands
Decisions to spend are also driven by ideas of quality which can influence the demand for almost all
goods, including even basic goods like food. When a couple goes out for an anniversary dinner, for
example ,the thought of feeling superior to others probably never comes to them. Their goal is to share a
special meal that stands out from other meals.
There are no obvious limits to the escalation of demands for quality. For example ,Porsche, a famous
car producer, has a model which was considered perhaps the best sport car on the market. Priced at
over $120,000,it handles perfectly well and has great speed acceleration. But in 2004 the producer
introduced some changes which made the model slightly better in handling and acceleration. People who
really care about cars find these small improvements exciting. To get them, however, they must pay almost four times the price.
By placing the desire to be superior to other at the heart of his description of insatiable demands,
Keynes actually reduced such demands. However, the desire for higher quality has no natural limits.
B. absolute needs come from our sense of superiority
C. relative needs alone lead to insatiable demands
D. absolute needs are stronger than relative needs
B. They find specialty important to meals
C. Their demands for food are not easily satisfied.
D. Their choice of dinner is related to ideas of quality.
B. Increase
C. Difference
D. Study
B. demands for quality are not insatiable
C. human desires influence ideas of quality
D. relative needs decide most of our spending
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distribute his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to
deserving causes,accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city
believe in fairytales (童话).
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the
Braunschiveiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag;
similar plain white anonymous (匿名)envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten
and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and; so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of
them was sent to the newspaper "s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a
14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the
Braunschiveiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of € 500 inside with
a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
"I was driving when I heard the news," Claudia Neumann, the boy"s mother, told Der Spiegel
magazine. "I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless."
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course
of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
"For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of
himself, was astonishing," Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood
character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske,the editor of the Braunschiveiger Zeitung, said: "Maybe it is an old person who is
about to die. We just do not know." However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city"s hero,
for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
B. a bank
C. a newspaper
D. a magazine
B. The donation was sent directly to his house.
C. The money will be used for his education.
D. His mother felt astonished at the donation.
B. the donation will continue to come
C. the donation comes from the newspaper
D. the donator will soon be found out
B. Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy.
C. Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes
D. Robin Hood Returns to the City
of failure. You don"t apply for a job 1 case you don"t
get it. You don"t perform at the school concert b 2 others
might laugh at you. A lack of confidence can l 3 to a lot
of suffering. The key to o 4 this problem is to believe in
yourself. This might be 5 (容易)said than done, but there
are many w 6 to help you do this. Talk about your problem
with a friend or look 7 advice on the Internet. Imagine
yourself being 8 (成功)and practise breathing techniques
to keep you calm when you get nervous. And the 9 important
thing is: believe you can do it. When you"ve 10 (学会)to do
that, you are well on your way.
I had no signal" when returning a missed mobile phone call, a survey found.
According to a recent survey people usually use this little white lie after they hit the "ignore"
button when their mobile rang. The second most common fib is "I haven"t got any cash on me"
when asked for money by beggars. Modern technology is a major excuse in many of our lies with
"I didn"t get your text" in 18th, "Our server was down" in 20th and "My battery died" in 26th place.
Researchers found the average Briton tells on average four lies every day or almost 1500 every
year. One in three Britons have lied about their weight, a quarter have fibbed about the amount of
debt they are in and 30 percent have bent the truth about the amount of exercise they do.
Almost a quarter of men have told their wife or girlfriend they look good in an outfit, despite
thinking the opposite. More than 40 percent of women have admitted lying about how much new
clothes actually cost while 30 percent have fibbed about how much they"ve had to drink.
Three quarters of people think women are better liars. The research found 46 per cent of girls
have been caught lying, compared to 58 of men. Men tell the most fibs, coming out with five every
day compared to women who lie just three times.
A spokesman for one poll, which carried out the research of 4,300 adults, said, "As a nation we
are obsessed with trying to be nice and not upsetting people. Often little white lies are used to cover
what we actually want to say."
"Most of these were considered either completely harmless or necessary depending on the situation
in which they are delivered." He added, "It was sad to see a string of compliments in the top 50, but
once again in many cases perhaps it is better to compliment(恭维) with a lie than destroy someone
with the truth."
B. British people like to lie
C. The reasons British people lie
D. Technology makes us lie
B. The amount of their debt.
C. Their drinking habits.
D. The cost of their clothing.
B. Men lie more often than women.
C. More men are better liars than women.
D. More women lie than men.
B. surprised about
C. opposed to
D. not interested in
B. To avoid speaking with others on the phone.
C. To avoid hurting others.
D. To destroy others.
changed for the better-or for the worse?
If you"ve just arrived back in the UK after a fortnight"s holiday, small changes have probably surprised
you-anything from a local greengrocer suddenly being replaced by a mobile-phone shop to someone in
your street moving house.
So how have things changed to people coming back to Britain after seven, ten or even 15 years living
abroad? What changes in society can they see that the rest of us have hardly noticed-or now take for
granted? To find out, we asked some people who recently returned.
Debi: When we left, Cheltenham, my home town, was a town of white, middle-class families-all very
conservative (保守的). The town is now home to many eastern Europeans and lots of Australians, who
come here mainly to work in hotels and tourism. There are even several shops only for foreigners.
Having been an immigrant (移民) myself, I admire people who go overseas to find a job. Maybe if I
lived in an inner city where unemployment was high, I"d think differently, but I believe foreign settlers have
improved this country because they"re more open-minded and often work harder than the natives.
Christine: As we flew home over Britain, both of us remarked how green everything looked. But the
differences between the place we"d left behind and the one we returned to were brought sharply into
focus as soon as we landed.
To see policemen with guns in the airport for the first time was frightening-in Cyprus, they"re very
relaxed-and I got pulled over by customs officers just for taking a woolen sweater with some
metal-made buttons out of my case in the arrivals hall. Everyone seemed to be on guard. Even the airport
car-hire firm wanted a credit card rather than cash because they said their vehicles had been used by
bank robbers.
But anyway, this is still a green, beautiful country. I just wish more people would appreciate what
they"ve got.
B. expect small changes
C. welcome small changes
D. exaggerate small changes
B. Positively.
C. Sceptically.
D. Critically.
B. the messy arrivals hall
C. the tight security
D. the bank robbers
B. Back in Britain.
C. Britain in Future.
D. Britain in Memory.
It goes like this: You can"t take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from
home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We"d take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching
to the tram, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but
we didn"t like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the
subway to our closest station, where Mom"s friend was waiting to give us a ride home-our first car ride of
the day.
The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She
was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a failure of
imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence-the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway
tunnels.
Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform,
nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light-rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if
you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox-and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.
On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestnut Street or buy a new book or toy, but
the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train
window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed
my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs?
How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction,
where"s the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?
I"m writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn"t try on our Transportation Days and, we
now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My
multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.
B. Taking the train twice.
C. Buying more than one toy.
D. Touring the historic district.
B. Reducing her use of private cars.
C. Developing her sense of direction.
D. Giving her knowledge about vehicles.
B. justified
C. ignored
D. ruined
B. Subway.
C. Tram.
D. Car.
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