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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?
Why does the author say high consumption is a mixed blessing?
选项 A、Because poverty still exists in an affluent society.
B、Because overconsumption won’t last long due to unrestricted population growth.
C、Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernization.
D、Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfaction.
答案D
解析 题干出处是第五段第一句话。一般来说，段落首句后面的内容是对首句的发展或解释、进一步说明，所以答案应该到第五段首句后的内容中去寻找。据此不难看出D项正确。
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