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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（消费）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（变革） 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】本文主要讲述了人们花费了太多的时间去消费，不能自己主动做些什么，作者认为有更多积极的事能做，鼓励人们有更积极的经历；反对消费主义。购物对你有多重要？你花多少时间买东西？你花了多少时间在家里整理这些东西？将来，你会花多少时间在电影院、游乐园、购物中心或便利店？当你把这一切加起来时，你可能会看到你花了很多时间买东西。消费产品不一定是坏事。但是，如果我们...

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