Years
ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying life less.
That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it
less. And when that does not work, we compound the problem. In our frantic
search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never
realizing that we are taking the wrong approach. The truth is so simple: so
simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less not more. Yet, we
pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the
satisfaction we desperately seek.
Arthur
Lindman in his book, “The Harried Leisure Class,” describes the futility of
pursuing more. His research focused on what people did with their
leisure time. He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy
their leisure time. However, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they
valued any of them. Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the
midst of tremendous variety. That was more than twenty years ago, and his
predictions seems more accurate every year.
Answer
the following questions:
(A) When do people normally start
buying more things?
(B) According to the text, why do
people buy more?
(C) Do you lead a simple or complicated
life?
(D) What could you do without?
(E)
How
much more complicated is your life compared to ten years ago?
(F)
Is
there anything you have bought and a short time later, wondered why?
(G) Have you ever bought something you
have never used?
(H) What is your most precious possession?
(I)
You
ever dreamed about “going bush”?
2. Arrange the words below in order.
(A) do
/ on / you / what / usually / Saturday / do _______________________?
(B) usually
/ up / don’t / we / early / get
________________________________
(C) often / morning
/ go / in / we / the / downtown
________________________
(D) my
/ gym / to / goes / the / sometimes / wife
_________________________
(E) class /
always / to / Spanish / go / I / my _____________________________
(F) meet
/ for / always / we / lunch
_____________________________________
(G) we
/ shopping / often / the / do / the / afternoon / in
___________________
(H) go /
night / on / never / we / out / Saturday ____________________________
ANSWERS:
Arrange the words in the correct order.
(A) do on you what
usually Saturday do What
do you usually do on Saturday?
(B) usually up don’t we
early get. We
don’t usually get up early.
(C) often morning
go in we the
downtown? In the morning, we often do
downtown.
(D) my
gym to goes
the sometimes wife My wife sometimes goes to the gym.
(E) class always
to Spanish go I
my I always go to Spanish class.
(F) meet for
always we lunch We
always meet for lunch.
(G) we
shopping often the
do the afternoon in We
often do the shopping in the afternoon.
(H) go
night on never
we out Saturday
We never go out on Saturday
night.
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