What Is Your Money Attitude?
Your money attitude is often the reason why you spend too much, are in debt or fear your finances.
ADORING
If you adore money, it means you love to spend it. In many cases, you buy things (often on credit) just because you enjoy shopping.
Simply put, you love to spend money. That’s it.
AVOIDANCE
If you feel you don’t deserve money, then this money attitude is yours. It isn’t even just a feeling of not deserving money.
Avoidance is one of the most difficult attitudes to change. That doesn’t mean it is impossible. It means that you may have to work a bit harder to make it happen.
CAUTIOUS
This cautious person refuses to spend money. They are afraid to let it go and fear that it will be gone, never to return. When you are overly cautious with money, you risk opportunities.
Now that you know which attitude you have, now is the time to make changes. It is something only you can do.
| A．No one can do it for you |
| B．You might be careful with your money |
| C．You must understand your money attitude |
| D．But, that doesn’t mean you can’t make a change |
| E．You don’t worry about the fact that you must pay for it later |
| F．They will help you make changes to take control of your money |
| G．You may also feel anxious or stressed at the mere thought of money |
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【推荐1】Amazon sells 1，161 kinds of toilet brushes. I know this because I recently spent an evening trying to choose one of them for the bathroom in my new apartment. Nearly an hour later， after having read countless contradictory （矛盾的） reviews and considering far too many choices， I felt tired and simply gave up. The next day， I happily bought the only toilet brush the local dollar store offered.
Too many choices exhaust us， make us unhappy and lead us to sometimes flee from making a decision altogether. Researcher Barry Schwartz calls this “choice overload”. And it's not just insignificant details like which brush to wipe the inside of the toilet with - having too many choices in our creative and professional lives can lead us to avoid making important decisions.
Understanding how and why we make decisions can perhaps help us make better choices down the line. We make poorer decisions when we are tired. It's caused by decision fatigue （疲劳）. The mind can only sort through so many choices and make so many choices before it starts to rum out of steam. That's why impulse buys like candy bars and magazines at the checkout aisle in the grocery store can be hard to resist. We've exhausted all our good decision -making skills.
The same goes for our workday. Making lots of decisions not only exhausts us；it can put us in a bad mood. That's why it's necessary to make your most important decisions in the morning rather than at the end of an exhausting day when your energy has been used up. The idiom “sleep on it” is indeed effective when it comes to making big decisions.
When we're tired， we lend to conserve our energy by making choices based on a single factor like price， rather than considering all the other determinants that go into making the best decision. When you're doing this， you are acting as what researchers call a cognitive miser （小气鬼）.
To conclude， letting yourself have fewer choices to choose from can help you arrive at a more creative answer.
1. Why did the author go to the local dollar store in the end？| A．She saw no good toilet brushes in Amazon. |
| B．She had got tired of the choices. |
| C．She read good reviews about brushes there. |
| D．She wanted to save some money. |
| A．It can benefit our creative thinking. |
| B．It means learning too much at a time. |
| C．It was first discovered by Barry Schwartz. |
| D．It can stop us from making good decisions at work. |
| A．To make a big decision regardless of sleepiness. |
| B．To make decisions at the end of the day. |
| C．To put off making big decisions until the next day when you are not tired. |
| D．To think carelessly about making a big decision. |
| A．Having fewer choices may benefit us more. |
| B．Reading reviews before shopping online is important. |
| C．Getting enough sleep every day is helpful. |
| D．Considering many factors to make a choice is unnecessary. |
【推荐2】I always felt sorry for the people in wheelchairs. Some people, old and weak, cannot get around by themselves. Others seem perfectly healthy, dressed in business suits. But whenever I saw someone in a wheelchair, I only saw a disability, not a person.Then I fainted (晕倒) at Euro Disney due to low blood pressure.This was the first time I had ever fainted, and my parents said that I must rest for a while after First Aid. I agreed to take it easy but,as I stepped towards the door, I saw my dad pushing a wheelchair in my direction. Feeling the colour burn my cheeks, I asked him to wheel that thing right back to where he found it.
I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were fine for other people but not for me, as my father wheeled me out into the main street, people immediately began to treat me differently.Little kids ran in front of me, forcing my father to stop the wheelchair suddenly. Bitterness set in as I was thrown back and forth. “Stupid kids ... they have perfectly good legs. Why can’t they watch where they are going?” I thought. People stared down at me, with pity in their eyes. Then they would look away, maybe because they thought the sooner they forgot me the better.
“I’m just like you!” I wanted to scream. “The only difference is that you’ve got legs and I have wheels.
People in wheelchairs are not stupid. They see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces, I finally understood: I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not want to be treated. I realised it is some of us with two healthy legs who are truly disabled.
1. Facing the wheelchair for the first time, the author .| A．felt curious about it |
| B．got ready to move around in it right away |
| C．thought it was ready for her father |
| D．refused to accept it right away |
| A．life is the best teacher |
| B．people often eat their bitter fruit |
| C．life is so changeable that nobody can predict |
| D．one should never do to others what he would not like others do to him |
| A．How to Get Used to Wheelchairs |
| B．Wheelchairs Are as Good as Two Legs |
| C．People with Two Legs Are Truly Healthy |
| D．The Difference Between Healthy People and the Disabled |
【推荐3】When we choose to worry over what we don’t possess, we actually stand at a risk of losing whatever we already have.
Choose to be grateful. Well, whether to complain about what you don’t have or to be thankful for what you have is a conscious choice you make yourself. Treasure what you have and strive for what you need next. Some are always worrying over what they don’t have or can’t achieve in the present.
Look around you. When in fear or frustration, look around yourself for examples of patience and gratitude.
Think positive to achieve positive.
| A．Your thoughts can shape your life. |
| B．Look for hidden ways to be thankful. |
| C．Think about why you should be grateful. |
| D．After all, it is our mind that rules our body. |
| E．Helping others is just one of such examples! |
| F．Learn to observe how birds are grateful to nature for their food. |
| G．Actually, it is merely a way to waste the precious present moments. |
【推荐1】The concept of showing movies outdoors isn’t novel. However, it let an auto-parts salesman such as Hollingshead find a way to give a car-loving society one more activity they could do in their cars.
He first imagined the drive-in as the answer to a problem. “His mother was rather fat for indoor theater seats,” says Jim Kopp of the United Drive-in Theatre Owners Association. “So he seated her in a car and put a 1928 projector (放映机) on top of the car, and tied two bed sheets to trees in his yard.”
Hollingshead experimented for a few years before he created a ramp (坡道) system for cars to park at different heights so everyone could see the screen. He opened the gates to his theater in 1933. A few others followed.
“Drive-ins started to take off in the 1950s,” Kopp says. “They offered family entertainment. People could sit in their cars and bring their babies... Drive-ins offered more comfort than indoor theaters.” The indoor theaters were easier about scheduling, and could show one film five or six times a day instead of only at night.
D. Vogel, owner of the Benjies Drive-In near Baltimore, Md, says the price of land is the real reason many drive-ins disappeared. “People would build on the outer areas of town, and the town would grow,” he says. “Many drive-ins were mom-and-pop businesses that few sons and daughers chose to continue running. The results were a decreasing (减少的) number of drive-ins throughout the country.” Today about 400 drive-ins remain in the United States and another 100 drive-ins exist mainly in Canada and Australia.
“The digital cinema will be both a threat and an opportunity for drive-in owners,” says Patrick Corcoran, the association’s director of media and research. “Digital will allow them to get new movies sooner than they do. But the digital cinemas will be expensive to manage, and some people may not be able to do it.”
Kopp of course bets on the drive-ins’ survival. He and his wife bought an outdoor theatre. He says they have invested about $300,000 to modernize the technology. Today the theatre can hold 265 cars and show movies on a 60-foot-by-80-foot screen.
1. Why did Hollingshead let his mother watch the movie in a car?| A．It was too noisy in the theater. |
| B．His mother loved staying in a car. |
| C．There would be more space for his mother. |
| D．It was difficult for his mother to see clearly in a theater. |
| A．They can sell more tickets than indoor theaters. |
| B．They give people more freedom to do things. |
| C．They take less space than indoor theaters. |
| D．They are much cheaper than indoor theaters. |
| A．The appearance of digital cinemas. |
| B．The decreasing number of first runs. |
| C．The competition from indoor theaters. |
| D．The high price of land that drive-ins took. |
| A．Positive. | B．Concerned. |
| C．Critical. | D．Doubtful. |
【推荐2】Austria took a striking step to combat the coronavirus pandemic when its government announced that people would not be allowed to enter places such as supermarkets without wearing a face mask.
Some might roll their eyes at this, including many scientists. There is disagreement over whether wearing low-quality masks prevents people from inhaling (吸入) the virus, even if it does reduce the chances of them spreading it by sneezing or coughing.
Austria will only be distributing regular masks free to shoppers at shop entrances, not the N95 respirators (which do reduce inhalation risks). Some US and European doctors believe mask-wearing is so pointless for those who do not usually face the direct risks medical staff are exposed to that they have urged consumers to donate any masks they have bought to hospitals instead.
Yet I think it would be a mistake to sneer at Austria’s move-for two reasons. First, wearing masks has one practical personal benefit: it reminds you to avoid touching your face. This matters.
The second reason is that mask-wearing is not just about individual psychology or behavior; it has social implications as well. As Christos Lynteris, a medical anthropologist at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, put it in an opinion column for The New York Times: “Members of a community wear masks not only to fight off disease in a pandemic. They wear masks also to show that they want to stick, and cope, together under the threat of pandemic.”
Some Europeans and Americans will scoff. Anglo-Saxon culture tends to prize individualism, not the type of collectivism that has often been valued in Asia. And in a city such as New York, mask-wearing has been such a minority practice that it has almost been associated with a sense of shame －in recent times especially, since some view it as a sign of sickness.
The point about mass mask-wearing is that this shame tends to disappear if everyone puts one on. In fact, not wearing a mask is now almost a source of shame in places such as Japan. And while it might be hard to imagine this becoming the case in the US, nothing should be ruled out, given how quickly the shock of COVID-19 is reshaping our ideas of risk, and leading to a rising appreciation in the west for collectivist values.
As Lynteris notes, epidemics should be understood not just as “biological events but also as social processes”, since this “is key to their successful containment (抑制)”. If rituals or symbols-like masks-help us to realize this, then so much the better.
To put it another way, beating COVID- 19 will not just require medical science, but a dose of social science too.
1. Some Western scientists and doctors roll their eyes at Austria’s move because they think_______.| A．medical staff are short of face masks in hospitals |
| B．low-quality face masks can’t stop people sneezing |
| C．wearing a face mask won’t reduce the risk of infection |
| D．donation should be more stressed and encouraged |
| A．it has both personal and social benefits |
| B．it helps people practice to not touch their face |
| C．it proves people’s psychological and behavioral well-being |
| D．it implies people can finally solve the problem |
| A．doubt the social effectiveness of wearing face masks |
| B．view minority practices in public as a sign of sickness |
| C．value individualism so much that they hate collectivism |
| D．don’t take the social implications of face masks seriously |
| A．the social sciences are unnecessary for beating COVID- 19 |
| B．holding collectivist values can help contain COVID- 19 |
| C．COVID- 19 can be eliminated through social processes |
| D．mass mask-wearing is impossible in the United States |
【推荐3】In a fast developing world, many old-fashioned skills seem to be disappearing. It’s hard to find people who know such skills as sewing, but a few decades ago, it was common for every person to learn them.
Now many would think sewing isn’t as useful today. The garment (服装) industry is producing clothing that is cheaper, faster and more fashionable than ever, making it possible to buy a suit for less than $10 at home.
However, that doesn’t mean clothing isn’t indestructible (破坏不了的). Garments with simple tears that could be fixed in seconds with a needle are just thrown away. This causes more than 26 billion pounds of garbage and millions of dollars wasted because of a tear. Even dirty or worn clothing that still has plenty of usable cloth is being thrown away.
The ability to create hand-made clothes doesn’t only reduce waste. It is also tailor-made just for you. Most buy clothes made for a general body type, and to get it tailored by a professional is expensive. So why not do it yourself?
Perhaps the greatest problem of sewing is simply the time involved. Buying a skirt online takes a few seconds. Making a skirt can take weeks. But learning to sew doesn’t always involve complicated projects. Instead they might just be simple adjustments to help the garments fit or match your style.
Schools could easily teach sewing. Yet, they focus more on college preparations, ignoring traditional skills. Actually sewing is a valuable skill to be used in daily life. It wouldn’t take much time to teach children how to sew.
So, instead of letting old things die in this new age of the Internet, how about learning some of the lost skills that helped us for so long?
1. Why do some people think the sewing skill is less useful?| A．Because cloth is too expensive. |
| B．Because sewing is a bit boring to learn. |
| C．Because hand-made things are easily broken. |
| D．Because clothes are cheaper and convenient to buy. |
| A．It contributes to creativity. | B．It’s environmentally-friendly. |
| C．It pushes the garment industry. | D．It gives costumers a typical look. |
| A．They make the skills easy to learn. | B．They set the skills as basic subjects. |
| C．They make every effort to teach the skills. | D．They fail to give the skills enough attention. |
| A．Supportive. | B．Doubtful. | C．Uncaring. | D．Opposing. |
