Question

【題目】Buying Is Doing?

How important is shopping to you? How much time do you spend buying things? And how much time do you spend organizing these things in your home? In the future, how much time will you spend in movie theaters, at amusement parks, at shopping malls, or at convenience stores? When you add it all up, you will probably see you spend a lot of your life consuming（消費(fèi)）things. Consuming products is not necessarily bad. However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.

Imagine that you have a week off from school. You don’t have to go to class. However, in this week, you cannot spend any money — no shopping, no movies, no eating out. How would you spend your time?

What things would bring you happiness? Perhaps you would take a walk with your best friend. Perhaps you would help a child read. Or you might spend time with your family.

When we look back, it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive. They don’t come in a package. You make the experience yourself. For example, each person who reads to a child will have a different experience. The experience changes with the reader, the child, and the book. Similarly, when you have a conversation with a friend, you are actively creating an experience. The conversation that you have with your friend cannot be experienced or recreated by anyone else. However, if you watch a movie with a friend, you will each have a package experience. It requires no action and little interaction between the two of you.

The environment we live in encourages us to have packaged experiences. We feel that we must consume because we believe that buying is doing. However, we can start a personal revolution（變革） against consumerism. How? By consuming less, we can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatest satisfaction. Then we can organize our lives so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.

【1】If consuming products takes too much time, we should ____________.

A. spend less money B. think about it carefully

C. organize our things D. go to convenience stores

【2】According to the passage, the writer believes that _____________.

A. we can say no to consumerism by consuming less

B. buying things can bring us the greatest satisfaction

C. the environment seldom influences our shopping choices

D. consuming experiences will be our most important memories

【3】What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A. To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time.

B. To encourage people to have more active experiences.

C. To explain reasons behind people’s shopping behavior.

D. To share his personal experience in consuming products.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】C

【解析】本文主要講述了人們花費(fèi)了太多的時(shí)間去消費(fèi)，不能自己主動(dòng)做些什么，作者認(rèn)為有更多積極的事能做，鼓勵(lì)人們有更積極的經(jīng)歷；反對(duì)消費(fèi)主義。購物對(duì)你有多重要？你花多少時(shí)間買東西？你花了多少時(shí)間在家里整理這些東西？將來，你會(huì)花多少時(shí)間在電影院、游樂園、購物中心或便利店？當(dāng)你把這一切加起來時(shí)，你可能會(huì)看到你花了很多時(shí)間買東西。消費(fèi)產(chǎn)品不一定是壞事。但是，如果我們花了太多的時(shí)間去做，我們應(yīng)該想想了。假設(shè)你有一周的假期。你不必去上課。然而，在這一周，你不能花錢——不要購物，不要看電影，不要出去吃飯。你將如何度過你的時(shí)間？什么東西會(huì)給你帶來幸福？也許你會(huì)和你最好的朋友一起散步。也許你會(huì)幫助一個(gè)孩子閱讀�；蛘吣憧赡軙�(huì)花時(shí)間和家人在一起。

當(dāng)我們回顧過去的時(shí)候，像這樣的非消費(fèi)體驗(yàn)很可能是我們最重要的記憶。為什么？非消耗性活動(dòng)是主動(dòng)的，而不是被動(dòng)的。他們不是一個(gè)包裹。你自己創(chuàng)造經(jīng)驗(yàn)。例如，每個(gè)給孩子的讀書的人都會(huì)有不同的經(jīng)歷。經(jīng)驗(yàn)隨著讀者、孩子和書而改變。同樣，當(dāng)你和朋友交談時(shí)，你也在積極地創(chuàng)造經(jīng)歷。你和你的朋友的談話不能被其他人體驗(yàn)或再現(xiàn)。但是，如果你和朋友一起看電影，你都會(huì)有一個(gè)包裝了的體驗(yàn)。它不需要你們兩個(gè)人之間的行動(dòng)和互動(dòng)。我們生活的環(huán)境鼓勵(lì)我們有包裝的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。我們認(rèn)為我們必須消費(fèi)，因?yàn)槲覀兿嘈刨徺I就是做。然而，我們可以從一個(gè)人的變革反對(duì)消費(fèi)主義。如何？減少消費(fèi)。我們可以問問自己，什么經(jīng)歷帶給我們最大的滿足感？。然后我們可以組織我們的生活，使我們有更多的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。

【1】問題：如果消費(fèi)產(chǎn)品花了太多時(shí)間，我們應(yīng)該______________。考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A. spend less money花更少的錢；B. think about it carefully仔細(xì)考慮一下；C. organize our things規(guī)劃我們的事情；D. go to convenience stores去便利店。根據(jù)第一段最后一句However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.（但是，如果我們花了太多的時(shí)間去做，我們應(yīng)該仔細(xì)看看。）結(jié)合題意和語境可知選B。

【2】問題：根據(jù)文章，作者認(rèn)為_______________________。考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。A. we can say no to consumerism by consuming less。我們可以通過減少消費(fèi)來拒絕消費(fèi)主義；B. buying things can bring us the greatest satisfaction買東西能帶給我們最大的滿足；C. the environment seldom influences our shopping choices環(huán)境很少影響我們的購物選擇；D. consuming experiences will be our most important memories消費(fèi)經(jīng)歷將是我們最重要的回憶。根據(jù)最后一段第三句However, we can start a personal revolution against consumerism. How? By consuming less. （然而，我們可以開始一場反對(duì)消費(fèi)主義的個(gè)人革命。如何？減少消費(fèi)。）結(jié)合題意可知選A。

【3】問題：作者寫這篇文章的主要目的是什么？考查主旨理解題。A. To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time. 介紹一些享受業(yè)余時(shí)間的方法；B. To encourage people to have more active experiences. 鼓勵(lì)人們有更積極的經(jīng)歷；C. To explain reasons behind people’s shopping behavior. 解釋人們購物行為背后的原因；D. To share his personal experience in consuming products. 分享他在消費(fèi)產(chǎn)品方面的個(gè)人經(jīng)歷。根據(jù)文中第二段第7和8句When we look back, it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive.（當(dāng)我們回顧過去的時(shí)候，像這樣的非消費(fèi)體驗(yàn)很可能是我們最重要的記憶。為什么？非消耗性活動(dòng)是主動(dòng)的，而不是被動(dòng)的。）可知作者寫這篇文章的主要目的是鼓勵(lì)人們有更積極的經(jīng)歷；選B。