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Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Early in the age of affluence (富裕) that followed World War II, an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, “Our enormously productive economy... We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate.”
Americans have responded to Lebow’s call, and much of the world has followed.
Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values. Opinion surveys in the world’s two largest economies—Japan and the United States—show consumerist definitions of success becoming ever prevalent.
Overconsumption by the world’s fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests, soils, water, air and climate.
Ironically, high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, family and community have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches.
Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow—that, misled by a consumerist culture, they have been fruitlessly attempting to satisfy what are essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with material things.
Of course, the opposite of over-consumption—poverty—is no solution to either environmental or human problems. It is infinitely worse for people and bad for the natural world too. Dispossessed (被剝奪得一無所有的) peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, and hungry nomads (游牧民族) turn their herds out onto fragile African grassland, reducing it to desert.
If environmental destruction results when people have either too little or too much, we are left to wonder how much is enough. What level of consumption can the earth support? When does having more cease to add noticeably to human satisfaction?
36. The emergence of the affluent society after World War II ________.
A) gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers
B) gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism
C) led to the reform of the retailing system
D) resulted in the worship of consumerism（D）
37. Apart from enormous productivity, another important impetus to high consumption is ________.
A) the conversion of the sale of goods into rituals
B) the people’s desire for a rise in their living standards
C) the imbalance that has existed between production and consumption
D) the concept that one’s success is measured by how much they consume（D）
38. Why does the author say high consumption is a mixed blessing?
A) Because poverty still exists in an affluent society.
B) Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfaction.
C) Because overconsumption won’t last long due to unrestricted population growth.
D) Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernization.（B）
39. According to the passage, consumerist culture ________.
A) cannot thrive on a fragile economy
B) will not aggravate environmental problems
C) cannot satisfy human spiritual needs
D) will not alleviate poverty in wealthy countries（C）
40. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A) human spiritual needs should match material affluence
B) there is never an end to satisfying people’s material needs
C) whether high consumption should be encouraged is still an issue
D) how to keep consumption at a reasonable level remains a problem
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| enormously |
想一想再看 adv. 巨大地，龐大地；非常地，在極大程度上 |
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| motivated | ['məutiveitid] |
想一想再看 adj. 有動機的；有積極性的 v. 使產生動機；激發… |
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| avoid | [ə'vɔid] |
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| testimony | ['testiməni] |
想一想再看 n. 證明，證據 |
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| embedded | [im'bedid] |
想一想再看 adj. 植入的，內含的，深入的 v. 埋入，植入，深入 |
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| implication | [.impli'keiʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 暗示，含意，牽連，卷入 |
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| extremely | [iks'tri:mli] |
想一想再看 adv. 極其，非常 |
聯想記憶 | |
| traditional | [trə'diʃənəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 傳統的 |
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| skillful | ['skilfəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 熟練的，靈巧的 |
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