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The First Rule of Finance is to live within your means by spending no more t

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问题     The First Rule of Finance is to live within your means by spending no more than 80% of your take-home pay. If you take home $100 per week, spend no more than $80.
    From this simple rule, all else falls into place. If you don’t spend more than 80% of your income, you won’t get into trouble. You won’t allow house payments, car payments, insurance payments, and shopping charges to exceed your 80% threshold. You may not be Einstein, but you can manage this concept, right?
    But ever look at what people spend their money on? I have relatives and friends chronically in debt, spending $12 for every $10 they earn instead of the $8 you know they should be spending. When I see them, they’re proud of their new whatever. "What do you think of my new truck?" asked one from the driver’s seat. "Do you like my new shoes?" asked another on stiletto heels. "Check out my new big screen," said a third while holding the remote in his living room. We’ve all heard people fishing for compliments on their new toys.
    Every one of them was proud of what they’d financed. They seem to have bought it for the purpose of being proud, of showing off, of keeping up with the Joneses. "Look at my new..." is everybody’s favorite phrase, even when the object in question isn’t theirs at all and won’t be new when they’ve finally paid for it, if they ever do.
    They’re proud of being stupid. They think it’s cool to drive the financed car, wear the financed shoes, and watch the financed TV, but to smart people, whose opinions are the only ones we should respect, these people look dumb as rocks.
    The Joneses, nine times out of 10, are financially stupid. That’s why they have all that stuff, on borrowed money. Why try to copy them? Worse, why try to impress them? Copy and impress smart people, the ones who own their stuff. If you want to impress smart people, debt is the last way to go about it. Trying to impress a money-smart person by going into debt is like trying to impress Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps by drowning in a pool, or golf pro Tiger Woods by driving your ball through the windshield of a parked car. Michael Phelps is impressed by good swimming, Tiger Woods by good golfing, and a money-smart person by good money management. [br] According to the author, buying new objects on borrowed money is______.
选项 A、unwise
B、shameful
C、understandable
D、impressive
答案 A
解析 第六段提到，爱炫耀的邻居十有八九在经济上都很愚蠢，这就是他们为什么借钱买东西。作者用反问句提到，为什么要效仿他们呢?更糟糕的是，为什么要给他们留下印象呢?由此可知，作者认为借钱买东西不明智，故答案[A]。
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