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  3. Early in the age of affluence(富裕)that followed World War II， an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, "Our e

Early in the age of affluence(富裕)that followed World War II， an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, "Our e

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问题     Early in the age of affluence(富裕)that followed World War II， an American retailing analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed, "Our enormously productive economy...demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption... We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced and discarded at an ever increasing rate. "
    Americans have responded to Lebow’s call, and much of the world has followed.
    Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even embedded in social values. Opinion surveys in the world’s two largest economies—Japan and the United States—show consumerists’ definitions of success becoming ever more prevalent.
    Overconsumption by the world’s fortune is an environmental problem unmatched in severity by anything but perhaps population growth. Their surging exploitation of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests, soils, water, air and climate.     Ironically, high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms, too. The time-honored values of integrity of character, good work, friendship, family and community have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches.
    Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is somehow hollow—that, misled by a consumerism culture, they have been fruitlessly attempting to satisfy what are essentially social, psychological and spiritual needs with material things.
    Of course, the opposite of overconsumption—poverty—is no solution to either environmental or human problems. It is infinitely worse for people and bad for the natural world too. Dispossessed(被剥夺得一无所有的)peasants stride into the rainforests of Latin America by the slash-and-burn method, and hungry nomads(游牧民族)turn their herds out onto fragile African grassland, reducing it to desert.
    If environmental destruction results when people have either too little or too much, we are left to wonder how much is enough. What level of consumption can the earth support? When does human’s growing desire come to an end?
The emergence of the affluent society after World War II______.
选项 A、led to the reform of the retailing system
B、resulted in the worship of consumerism
C、gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism
D、gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers
答案B
解析 推论题。B项是前三段的中心思想。Lebow’s call的实质即B项所说的the worship of consumerism， 也即第三段的consumption has become a central pillar of life…and is even embedded in social values及consumerists’definitions of success。 A项中的retailing出现在文章的第一句话中，而该句话没有A项的意思，故A不对。C项的eg—oism是根据文章第一段中的our ego satisfaction而来，据此也可排除C。D项大意是出现新的消费阶层，文章前三段没有提到任何相关信息。
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