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I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend Taj called. "Sit down," she said. I thought
I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend Taj called. "Sit down," she said. I thought
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2013-09-28
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I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend Taj called.
"Sit down," she said.
I thought she was going to tell me she had just gotten the haircut from hell. I laughed and said, " It can’t be that bad. "
But it was. Before the phone call, I had 30 years of retirement saving in a "safe" fund with a brilliant financial guru(金融大亨). When I put down the phone, my savings were gone. I felt as if I had died and, for some unknown reason, was still breathing.
Since Bernie Madoffs arrest on charges of running a $65 million Ponzi scheme, I’ve read many articles about how we investors should have known what was going on. I wish I could say I had reservations about Madoff before "the Call" , but I did not.
On New Year’s Eve, three weeks after we lost our savings, six of us Madoff people gathered at Taj’s house for dinner. As we were sitting around the table, someone asked, " If you could have your money back right now, but it would mean giving up what you have learned by losing it, would you take the money or would you take what losing the money has given you?"
My husband was still in financial shock. He said, "I just want the money back. " I wasn’t certain where I stood. I knew that losing our money had cracked me wide open. I’d been walking around like what the Buddhists call a hungry ghost; always focused on the bite that was yet to come, not the one in my mouth. No matter how much I ate or had or experienced, it didn’t satisfy me, because I wasn’t really taking it in, wasn’t absorbing it. Now I was forced to pay attention. Still, I couldn’t honestly say that if someone had offered me the money back, I would turn it down.
But the other four all said that what they were seeing about themselves was incalculable, and they didn’t think it would have become apparent without the ground of financial stability being ripped out from underneath them.
My friend Michael said, "I’d started to get complacent. It’s as if the muscles of my heart started to atrophy (萎缩). Now they’re awake, alive—and I don’t want to go back. "
These weren’t just empty words. Michael and his wife needed to take in boarders to meet their expenses. Taj was so broke that she was moving into someone’s garage apartment in three weeks. Three friends had declared bankruptcy and weren’t sure where or how they were going to live.
According to the passage, to which was she "forced to pay attention" ?
选项
A、Her friends.
B、Her husband.
C、Her lost savings.
D、Her experience.
答案
D
解析
推断题。由题干中的“forced to pay attention”定位至原文第七段倒数第二句“Now I was forced to pay attention.”。定位句上一句提及“No matter how much I ate or had or experienced,it didn’t satisfy me,because I wasn’t really taking it in.wasn’t absorbing it.”题干问的是作者被迫去关注什么,定位句中的“Now”与上文形成对比,由此可推知[D]符合文意,故为答案。[A]“她的朋友们”、[B]“她的丈夫”和[C]“她失去的储蓄”均与文意不符,故都排除。
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