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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
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2023-06-22
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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] What can we infer from the passage about the author?
选项
A、He is resistant to social changes.
B、He is against technological progress.
C、He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D、He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。由定位句可以看出,作者对钱包走向灭绝感到不安和困惑,而钱包灭绝正是代表着社会的变化,因此D)“他在不断变化的现代世界中感到不安”符合文意,该选项中的insecure对应定位句中的uneasy和bother,故答案为D)。
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