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（2017﹒北京）Buying Is Doing?

How important is shopping to you? How much time do you spend buying things? And how much time do you spend organizing these things in your home? In the future, how much time will you spend in movie theaters, at amusement parks, at shopping malls, or at convenience stores? When you add it all up, you will probably see you spend a lot of your life consuming（消費(fèi)）things. Consuming products is not necessarily bad. However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.

Imagine that you have a week off from school. You don’t have to go to class. However, in this week, you cannot spend any money — no shopping, no movies, no eating out. How would you spend your time?

What things would bring you happiness? Perhaps you would take a walk with your best friend. Perhaps you would help a child read. Or you might spend time with your family.

When we look back, it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive. They don’t come in a package. You make the experience yourself. For example, each person who reads to a child will have a different experience. The experience changes with the reader, the child, and the book. Similarly, when you have a conversation with a friend, you are actively creating an experience. The conversation that you have with your friend cannot be experienced or recreated by anyone else. However, if you watch a movie with a friend, you will each have a package experience. It requires no action and little interaction between the two of you.

The environment we live in encourages us to have packaged experiences. We feel that we must consume because we believe that buying is doing. However, we can start a personal revolution（變革） against consumerism. How? By consuming less, we can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatest satisfaction. Then we can organize our lives so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.

1.If consuming products takes too much time, we should ____________.

A. spend less money B. think about it carefully

C. organize our things D. go to convenience stores

2.According to the passage, the writer believes that _____________.

A. we can say no to consumerism by consuming less

B. buying things can bring us the greatest satisfaction

C. the environment seldom influences our shopping choices

D. consuming experiences will be our most important memories

3.What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A. To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time.

B. To encourage people to have more active experiences.

C. To explain reasons behind people’s shopping behavior.

D. To share his personal experience in consuming products.

1.B 2.A 3.C 【解析】本文主要講述了人們花費(fèi)了太多的時(shí)間去消費(fèi)，不能自己主動(dòng)做些什么，作者認(rèn)為有更多積極的事能做，鼓勵(lì)人們有更積極的經(jīng)歷；反對(duì)消費(fèi)主義。購(gòu)物對(duì)你有多重要？你花多少時(shí)間買(mǎi)東西？你花了多少時(shí)間在家里整理這些東西？將來(lái)，你會(huì)花多少時(shí)間在電影院、游樂(lè)園、購(gòu)物中心或便利店？當(dāng)你把這一切加起來(lái)時(shí)，你可能會(huì)看到你花了很多時(shí)間買(mǎi)東西。消費(fèi)產(chǎn)品不一定是壞事。但是，如果我們...

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