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What would happen if consumers decided to simplify their lives and spend less on material goods and services? This question is t
What would happen if consumers decided to simplify their lives and spend less on material goods and services? This question is t
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2014-02-20
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问题
What would happen if consumers decided to simplify their lives and spend less on material goods and services? This question is taking on a certain urgency as rates of economic growth continue to decelerate through the industrialized world, and as millions of consumers appear to be opting for more frugal lifestyles. The Stanford Research Institute, which has done some of the most extensive work on the frugality phenomenon, estimates that nearly five million American adults are pursuing lives of "voluntary simplicity", and double that number "adhere to and act on some but not all" of its basic tenets.
The frugality phenomenon first achieved prominence as a middle-class rejection of high-consumption lifestyle in the industrialized world during the 1950s and 1960s. In The Silent Revolution, Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan’s Institute of Social Research examined this experience in the United States and 10 Western European nations. He concluded that a change has taken place "from an overwhelming emphasis on material well-being and physical security toward greater emphasis on the quality of life," that is, "a shift from materialism to post-materialism. "
Inglehart calls the 1960s the "fat years". Among their more visible trappings were the ragged blue jeans favored by the affluent young. Most of the retreat from materialism, however, was less visible. Comfortably fixed Americans were going without change, making things last longer, sharing things with others, learning to do things for themselves and so on. But while economically significant, it was hardly discernible in a US Gross National Product climbing vigorously toward the $ 2 thousand billion mark.
Yet as the frugality phenomenon matured—growing out of the soaring 1980s and into the sober 1990s—it seemed to undergo a fundamental transformation. American consumers continued to lose faith in materialism and were being joined by new converts who were embracing frugality because of the darkening economic skies they saw ahead. Resource scarcities, soaring energy prices, persistent inflation, high-level unemployment, balance-of-trade deficits, the declining value of the US dollar on foreign exchange markets forced consumers to look to their own resources. The one device which seemed most promising, the one over which they had the most control, was frugality—learning to live with less in a world where a penny saved was still a penny earned.
The frugality phenomenon was less visible in the 1960s because______.
选项
A、most Americans were comfortably fixed and didn’t want to change
B、the robust American economy then made it hardly discernible
C、the retreat from materialism was not economically significant
D、most people didn’t want to be accused of resisting the tradition
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干中所涉及的时间(20世纪60年代),我们可以在第三段中找到此题的答案。Inglehart称20世纪60年代为fat years(丰年),本段最后一句也指出美国的国民生产总值在“强劲上升”(climbing vigorously),所以当时美国人的各种节俭行为在这种繁荣的经济下,在强劲攀升的国民生产总值中就显得不为人注意。故此题答案为B。
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