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I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend
I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend
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2023-11-11
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问题
I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to have for lunch when my friend Taj called.
"Sit down," she said.
I thought she was going to tell me she had just gotten the haircut from hell. I laughed and said, " It can’t be that bad. "
But it was. Before the phone call, I had 30 years of retirement saving in a "safe" fund with a brilliant financial guru(金融大亨). When I put down the phone, my savings were gone. I felt as if I had died and, for some unknown reason, was still breathing.
Since Bernie Madoffs arrest on charges of running a $65 million Ponzi scheme, I’ve read many articles about how we investors should have known what was going on. I wish I could say I had reservations about Madoff before "the Call" , but I did not.
On New Year’s Eve, three weeks after we lost our savings, six of us Madoff people gathered at Taj’s house for dinner. As we were sitting around the table, someone asked, " If you could have your money back right now, but it would mean giving up what you have learned by losing it, would you take the money or would you take what losing the money has given you?"
My husband was still in financial shock. He said, "I just want the money back. " I wasn’t certain where I stood. I knew that losing our money had cracked me wide open. I’d been walking around like what the Buddhists call a hungry ghost; always focused on the bite that was yet to come, not the one in my mouth. No matter how much I ate or had or experienced, it didn’t satisfy me, because I wasn’t really taking it in, wasn’t absorbing it. Now I was forced to pay attention. Still, I couldn’t honestly say that if someone had offered me the money back, I would turn it down.
But the other four all said that what they were seeing about themselves was incalculable, and they didn’t think it would have become apparent without the ground of financial stability being ripped out from underneath them.
My friend Michael said, "I’d started to get complacent. It’s as if the muscles of my heart started to atrophy (萎缩). Now they’re awake, alive—and I don’t want to go back. "
These weren’t just empty words. Michael and his wife needed to take in boarders to meet their expenses. Taj was so broke that she was moving into someone’s garage apartment in three weeks. Three friends had declared bankruptcy and weren’t sure where or how they were going to live. [br] What is the message of the passage?
选项
A、Understanding gained is more important than money lost.
B、It is natural to see varied responses to financial crises.
C、Desire for money is human nature.
D、One has to be decisive during crises.
答案
A
解析
主旨题。通览全文可知,文章前半部分均在叙述作者的遭遇,只是在倒数第二、三、四段论及作者和朋友对此遭遇的看法。作者由朋友的一番提问:“…would you take the money or would you take what losing the money has given you?”引出关于“失与得”的讨论,从而揭示出深刻的道理,即为[A]“理解力的获得比金钱损失更重要”,故为答案。[B]“看到对经济危机的不同反应是很自然的”为客观表象,并非作者想通过文章要表达的真正意图,故排除;[C]“对金钱的欲望是人类的本性”过于肤浅,与文意不符,故排除;原文并未强调危机中的“决断性”,而是对待危机的态度,排除[D]。
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