首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
[A] Work for your dream [B] A penny saved is a penny earned [C] Don’t compare yourself to others [D] Be true to you
[A] Work for your dream [B] A penny saved is a penny earned [C] Don’t compare yourself to others [D] Be true to you
admin
2022-11-16
162
问题
[A] Work for your dream
[B] A penny saved is a penny earned
[C] Don’t compare yourself to others
[D] Be true to yourself
[E] Follow your passion
[F] Embrace competition in life
[G] Money is everything
Here is my contradiction to the worst advice: my counter-advice.
【R1】________
Actually, don’t. A huge part of life comes down to acting. You change your accent as you move up socially. You pretend confidence when you feel none. Once you make it, you do the inverse: pretend shyness and self-doubt to avoid upsetting people. None of this makes you "inauthentic". Or if it does, then authenticity does not warrant the overstatement that has grown up around it. Lying is corrosive. But a certain amount of hiding is hard to avoid.
【R2】________
This is a good way of preventing insecurity. It is also a good way of underachieving. Competition is a spur to performance. Even people who are not work-focused engage in competitive parenting or competitive socializing. And if you try to avoid invidious comparisons, your brain will resist. The research on "inequality aversion" suggests that people think in relative rather than absolute terms. We would rather have less overall if it means that our neighbors do not have comparatively more. "It is not enough to succeed," said Gore Vidal, my life coach. "Others must fail."
【R3】________
This is wrong on two counts. First, many passions are hard to monetize. This was true of music and novel-writing even before the straitened economics of those industries set in. Creative pursuits favor downwardly mobile rich kids, hence the oversupply of contemporary fiction by authors who "live in New Haven and Jakarta", starring characters who fly a lot and feel a bit sad.
Second, if you do make a career out of your passion, some of the passion goes. Bar songwriting or filling that troublesome regista slot for Arsenal, there is nothing I would rather do than write columns for the FT. But because I do, it is a job. I don’t get to stroll over to the laptop when the ghost of inspiration possesses me. I have deadlines. Any activity, even Alba truffle-eating, becomes less fun once your ego and livelihood depend on it.
【R4】________
Up to a point. But there is no linear relationship between effort and success. And while hard work never killed anyone, it has drained them of their happiness. I keep wanting to press this case through a set of self-help books (Lean Out, The Seven Habits of Highly Rested People, The Fierce Urgency of Tomorrow) but it seems like a lot of work.
【R5】________
An old one, this, and it shows. Many asset classes have risen faster than incomes throughout your lives. It will take some heroic saving to buy the house you want. The modern world often disincentivizes you—all but mocks you—for thrift.
The memories you acquire in your twenties will sustain you later. Make sure those memories are of something better than contribution to your retirement savings. Reduce costs in your thirties, if you must, or just marry into money. Economists will be angry. But they undervalue what they cannot quantify, and they cannot quantify raw human pleasure in the moment. The best things in life are not always free, even if this advice is.
【R5】
选项
答案
B
解析
根据这两段话中incomes(收入)、saving(储蓄)、thrift(节俭)、costs(成本)以及free(免费的)等词,可推知段落话题与金钱有关。根据Many asset classes have risen faster than incomes throughout your lives(在你的一生当中,许多资产类别的增长速度比收入增长快得多)和The modern world often disincentivizes you—all but mocks you—for thrift (现代世界往往不鼓励——几乎是嘲笑——你节俭度日)及Make sure those memories are of something better than contribution to your retirement savings. (确保自己拥有这些记忆比为你的退休储蓄做贡献更好)等句子可知,段落内容与是否节俭有关,故B项A penny saved is a penny earned(省一分就是赚一分)应为该段标题。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NbMD777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
[A]Workforyourdream[B]Apennysavedisapennyearned[C]Don’tcompareyourselftoothers[D]Betruetoyou
Thebiggestsuccessofthefossilfuelindustry’sdecades-longcampaigntopushdoubtaboutclimatescienceisthatitforcedth
Everyonewantstobeauthentic.Youwanttobetruetoyourself,notaslavishfollowerofsocialexpectations.Youwantto"liv
Everyonewantstobeauthentic.Youwanttobetruetoyourself,notaslavishfollowerofsocialexpectations.Youwantto"liv
Countriesmustcreativelycomplementtheuseoffossilfuelsandrenewableenergyintheinterimpendingwhenrenewableenergyc
[A]Shopkeepersareyourfriends[B]Remembertotreatyourself[C]Sticktowhatyouneed[D]Livelikeapeasant
Britain’sprivateschoolsareoneofitsmostsuccessfulexports.Thechildrenofthewealthy【C1】________tothem,whetherfromC
Britain’sprivateschoolsareoneofitsmostsuccessfulexports.Thechildrenofthewealthy【C1】________tothem,whetherfromC
Asimpleideasupportsscience:"trust,butverify".Resultsshouldalwaysbe【C1】________tochallengefromexperiment.Thatsimp
Asimpleideasupportsscience:"trust,butverify".Resultsshouldalwaysbe【C1】________tochallengefromexperiment.Thatsimp
随机试题
GalaxyZoosetastandardforcitizen-scientistparticipationproject.Zealousvolunteers(i)________theproject’sorganizersb
试述预防外科清洁手术切口感染的围术期用药方法。
患儿,女,7d,足月顺产,在家分娩。因牙关紧闭10h,抽搐6次入院。查体:体重3700g,身长52cm,皮肤黄染,牙关紧闭,反应差,苦笑面容,脐窝红肿、有脓性分泌物。最重要的护理措施是
有抗菌和抗钩端螺旋体作用的药材是主含生物碱的药材是
有一幢22层的塔楼,每层只有A、B、C、D四种户型,套内建筑面积分别为120平方米、100平方米、80平方米、60平方米,每层的建筑面积均是420平方米。C户型分摊的共有建筑面积是()平方米。
某35kV电气装置工程项目,某机电安装公司通过招投标中标。施工项目经理部为了保证施工项目按期完成,使资源配置尽量达到合理和最大限度地降低成本,就组织人员进行施工进度计划的编制,编制采用的方法是横道图施工进度计划。在施工过程中的部分施工工序和要点如下:
先选中第一张工作表的标签,再按住()键,单击最后一张工作表的标签,可选择两张或多张相邻的工作表。
某男,40岁。8个月前,因让妻子开车去老家看望父母,不幸遇交通事故身亡,遭女方家人责备。该男承受巨大压力,内心痛苦,情绪低沉。目前一切后事交通事故纠纷已经处理完毕,情绪稍微稳定。家人为了使其及早摆脱痛苦,为其介绍了一位对象,现双方均有意发展关系,但自己不知
法与政治都是建立在一定经济基础之上的上层建筑,都反映一定社会主体的意志和利益,两者相互作用、密切关联。下列关于二者关系的说法,不正确的是()。
Ihopethey______thisroadbythetimewecomebacknextsummer.
最新回复
(
0
)