首页
登录
职称英语
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die
游客
2023-06-22
10
管理
问题
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink(眨眼)of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble(鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer. [br] Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet?
选项
A、It represents a change in the modern world.
B、It has something to do with everybody’s life.
C、It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D、It is the concern of contemporary economists.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。what’s happening to the wallet指的是钱包正走向灭绝。第三段继续介绍作者对钱包即将灭绝的看法。第二句提到,钱包的消失给我带来的困扰是关于它所代表的实体环境的改变。因此A)“它代表现代世界的一个改变”符合文意,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2772126.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:Michael,whereareyouheading?Youseemtobeinahurry.M:
[originaltext]W:Michael,whereareyouheading?Youseemtobeinahurry.M:
Thewalletisheadingforextinction.Asaday-to-dayessential,itwilldie
Thewalletisheadingforextinction.Asaday-to-dayessential,itwilldie
Thewalletisheadingforextinction.Asaday-to-dayessential,itwilldie
Thewalletisheadingforextinction.Asaday-to-dayessential,itwilldie
Thewalletisheadingforextinction.Asaday-to-dayessential,itwilldie
[originaltext]W:Michael,whereareyouheading?Youseemtobeinahurry.M:
[originaltext]W:Michael,whereareyouheading?Youseemtobeinahurry.M:
[originaltext]W:Michael,whereareyouheading?Youseemtobeinahurry.M:
随机试题
IbelievewhenIcomebackaftergraduationalltheseoldbuildings______down.A
Thetouriststookwiththemfullcamping________(equip),includingtents,ligh
在工程量清单计价模式下,政府部门发布的工程定额所起的作用主要有()。A.工程投标
某公司适用的所得税税率为25%,正在着手编制下年度的财务计划。有关资料如下:
根据《关于加强金融消费者权益保护工作的指导意见》,银行业金融机构应充分提示风险,
药物组成中无桃仁的方剂是A.生化汤B.血府逐瘀汤C.补阳还五汤D.桂枝茯苓丸E.
对重大传染病流行趋势进行预测、预警的是A.医疗机构 B.疾病预防控制机构 C
中央银行为政府部门和其他机构提供服务的业务包括()。A.开立账户 B
在建筑工程初步设计文件深度不够、不能准确计算出工程量的情况下,可采用的设计概算编
A公司中标了某装置项目,包括钢结构、设备、工艺管道及电器仪表、氨制冷站等安装工
最新回复
(
0
)