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The economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, t
The economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, t
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2019-11-19
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The economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to America. The clothes belong to his friend and colleague Joseph Stieglitz, Akerlof was eager to send the box off. But he delayed dealing with it, week after week. This went on for more than eight months and it was only shortly before Akerlof himself returned to America that he managed to mail this box: another friend happened to be sending some things back to the U.S., and Akerlof was able to add the box to the shipment. Given the vagaries of intercontinental mail, it is possible that Akerlof made it back to the United States before Stieglitz’ s shirt.
Even Nobel-winning economists
procrastinate
! Akerlof saw this familiar experience as mysterious. He actually intended to send the box to his friend, yet, as he wrote in a paper called "procrastination and obedience", "each morning for over eight months I woke up and decided that the next morning would be the day to send the Stieglitz box", but act never arrived. He realized that procrastination might be more than just a bad habit, and it might be something important about the limits of human rational thinking and that it could teach useful lessons about phenomena as substance abuse and savings habits.
Since his essay about procrastination was published, it became a buzz word among the academia, like philosophers, psychologists and economists: academies and college students may be especially prone to putting things off. But the study of this subject isn’t just a case of eggheads rationalizing their slacking. From another angle, this issue illustrates the fluidity of human identity and the complicated relationship human beings have to time. A central figure in this subject argues that dragging our heels is as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called basic human impulse, but the anxiety about dragging seems to have emerged in early modern era, as early as eighteenth century.
Procrastination is also a surprisingly costly one. Each year, Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time. 70% of patients suffering from glaucoma risk of blindness because they don’t use their eye-drops regularly. Procrastination also inflicts major costs on businesses and governments. The recent crisis of the euro was aggravated by the German government’s hesitation. And the decline of the American auto industry, exemplified by the bankruptcy of G.M., was due in part to executives’ inclination for delaying tough decisions.
From the first paragraph, we can learn______.
选项
A、Akerlof had difficulty in mailing his friend’s clothes from India to the United States
B、Indian shipment service made simple things much more complicated
C、Akerlof arrived in the U.S. before his friend clothes did
D、Akerlof postpones mailing his friend’ s clothes until eight months later
答案
D
解析
根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段。A项“阿克洛夫很难把他朋友的衣服从印度寄到美国”,文章指出“阿克洛夫在邮寄东西方面没有什么困难,只是他一直在拖延”,故A项错误。B项“印度的货运服务使简单的事情变得复杂”并未在原文中提及,故错误。C项“阿克洛夫在他的朋友的衣服邮到之前到达了美国”,其是对该段最后一句话的错误解读,文章用的是推测的口吻,故错误。D项“阿克洛夫推迟了邮寄他朋友的衣服,直到8个月后”,符合原文含义,故本题选D。
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