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Affluenza For many people, economic growth and an increase in possessions are signs of progress, but for anti-consumer groups
Affluenza For many people, economic growth and an increase in possessions are signs of progress, but for anti-consumer groups
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2013-01-20
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问题
Affluenza
For many people, economic growth and an increase in possessions are signs of progress, but for anti-consumer groups overconsumption and materialism are sicknesses. A recent Public Broadcasting Service coined the term affluenza, which describes consumption of material goods in a strongly negative way.
Af-flu-en-za (noun) combines two words: affluence and fluenza. According to anti-consumer and environmental fights organizations, the high consumption life stiles of affluence cause people to be less happy even though they are acquiring more "things". The major negative effect on the environment is that overconsumption is depleting the world’s natural resources, anti-consumer groups argue. Furthermore, the groups observe that an artificial. Ongoing and insatiable quest for things and the money to buy them has replaced the normal desire for an adequate supply of life’s necessities, community life, a stable family, and healthy relationships. For example, today’s families are replacing items much more frequently than in the past. Many Americans now treat clothing as "disposable", discarding clothes when fashion changes, and creating a boom in thrift stores and yard sales. The U. S. A.’s largest export is now used clothes. About 2.5 million tons of unfashionable old clothes’ and rags are sold to Third World countries every year.
In the word "affluenza" is implied the meaning that ______.
选项
A、too much money is a disaster
B、a life of affluence is like a fluenza
C、over-consumption is like an epidemic brought by affluence
D、affluence is a negative thing
答案
C
解析
本题的依据句是第2段的第1句可知,affluenza含有affluence“富足”,和 fluenza“流感”之意,体现了太过富足会带来如同流行性疾病一般的后果,因此 C项为正确答案。
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