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What would you do with $ 590m? This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her s

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问题     What would you do with $ 590m? This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfilment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.
    These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly. What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms. Dunn and Mr. Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema. These purchases often become more valuable with time—as stories or memories— particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.
    This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most "happiness bang for your buck". It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television(something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it). Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. This is apparently the reason McDonald’ s restricts the availability of its popular McRib—a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
    Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfilment, not hunger.
    Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people. Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives tor American homebuyers. But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.
The author’s attitude towards Americans’ watching TV is______.
选项 A、critical
B、supportive
C、sympathetic
D、ambiguous
答案A
解析 态度题。根据关键词“Americans’watching TV”定位到原文第三段。第二句It seems mostpeople would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work，spend more time with friends and family andless of it watching television(something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing，and ishardly jollier for it)(对于大多数人来说，快乐的秘诀就是能缩短上下班时间，多陪陪家人和朋友，少看电视。美国民众每年要花至少两个月的时间在电视上，但他们照样过得不快乐。)可见作者对通过看电视来获取快乐持否定态度，因此A项“批评的”为正确答案。supportive“支持的”，sympathetic“同情的，赞同的”，ambiguous“含糊的”，都不符合原文。
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