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A、Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency. B、Whether it is possible to predict how much money on
A、Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency. B、Whether it is possible to predict how much money on
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2017-08-25
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问题
[19] Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.
Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.
Claer Barrett, the editor of Financial Times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.
"Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency. But does a cashless society really make good economic sense?"
"The fact that cash is being drawn out of society, is less a feature of our everyday lives, and the ease of electronic payments—is this actually making us spend more money without realizing it?"
[20] Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending. She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of cash points. Months later, she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and the pockets of her handbags.
[21] During the experiment, Barrett took a train ride. On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash.
"It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation," Barrett says. [22] " My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes—they’d get paid and they’d immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. It was a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending. Nowadays, we’re all on credit cards, we’re doing online purchases, and money is kind of becoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we can’t get our hands around."
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. What do we learn about Sweden?
20. What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?
21. What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?
22. How did people of the last generation budget their spending?
选项
A、Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.
B、Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.
C、Whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more.
D、Whether the absence of physical currency is going to affect everyday life.
答案
C
解析
浏览四个选项,根据选项中出现的without carrying any physical currency,the absence of physical currency等词可推测,此题与physical currency的取消有关。题干问的是巴蕾特想要通过实验发现什么。讲座中间提到巴蕾特想知道没有了实际货币是否会造成花钱更多的现象,因此几个月前她决定进行实验,故答案为C。A项(如果没有实际货币,是否可以旅行),B项(是否可以预测一个人要花多少钱),D项(没有实际货币,是否会影响日常生活),以上三个选项均不是实验的主要目的,故排除。
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