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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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问题
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.
According to the passage, which of the following statement is TRUE?
选项
A、Procrastination is no more than a bad habit.
B、Many academics write papers to rationalize people’ s laziness.
C、Postponing in daily life increases the cost of people’s life.
D、Early modern people care less about the impact of slacking.
答案
C
解析
根据题干关键词定位到文章最后一段。最后一段首句明确指出Procrastination is also a surprisingly costly one,C项“日常生活中的拖延增加了人们的生活成本”是该句的同义替换,故正确。A项“拖延症仅仅是一种坏习惯”、B项“许多学者写论文来解释人们的懒惰”和D项“早期现代人不关心拖延的影响”原文中都未提及,故选C。
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