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What would you do with $ 590m? This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her s

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问题     What would you do with $ 590m? This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfilment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.
    These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly. What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms. Dunn and Mr. Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema. These purchases often become more valuable with time—as stories or memories— particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.
    This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most "happiness bang for your buck". It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television(something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it). Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. This is apparently the reason McDonald’ s restricts the availability of its popular McRib—a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
    Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfilment, not hunger.
    Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people. Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives tor American homebuyers. But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.
This text mainly discusses how to______.
选项 A、balance feeling good and spending money
B、spend large sums of money won in the lotteries
C、obtain lasting satisfaction from money spent
D、become more reasonable in spending on luxuries
答案A
解析 主旨题。本文第一段引出话题；如何快乐地消费。第二段引出《快乐消费》这本书的研究成果；把钱花在有意义的经历上，会显得更有价值。第三段讲本书如何帮助工薪阶层的人和中大奖的人花钱买快乐。最后一段讲这本书能告诉你如何花钱才更有价值，因此购买这本书还是值得的。全文围绕“花钱”和“快乐”两方面展开，因此A项“(本文旨在讨论)如何平衡花钱与感觉快乐的关系”为正确答案。
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