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Keep Up with the Joneses In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not be
Keep Up with the Joneses In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not be
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Keep Up with the Joneses
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what keeping up with the Joneses is about. It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself: He began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich life-style of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses", because "Jones" is a very common name in the United States. "Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with rich life-style of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the county for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are "Joneses" in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
选项
A、want to be as rich as their neighbors
B、want others to know or to think that they are rich
C、don’t want others to know they are rich
D、want to be happy
答案
B
解析
根据文中第一自然段中“And even if he does not become very rich he wants people to think that he is.That is what keeping up with the Joneses’ is about.”我们可以推出原因在于他们想让别人认为他们和周围的人一样富有。所以,选[B]正确。
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