[单项选择]The high living standards of the US cause its present population to ______ 25 percent of the world's oil.
A. assume
B. consume
C. resume
D. presume

[单项选择]The high living standards of the US cause its present population to ______ 25 percent of the world's oil.
A. assume
B. consume
C. resume
D. presume

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Text 3
Living standards soared during the twentieth century, and economists expect them to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we humans can look forward to increasing happiness
Easterlin admits that richer people are more likely to report themselves as being happier than poorer people are. But steady improvements in the American economy have not been accompanied by steady increases in people’s self-assessments of their own happiness. "There has been not improvement in average happiness in the United States over almost a half century -- a period in which real GDP (gross domestic product) per capital more than doubled," Easterlin reports.
The explanation for this paradox may be that people become less satisfied over time with a given level of income. In Easterlin’s word: "As incomes rise, the aspiration level does too, and the effect of this increase in aspirations is to invalidate the expected growth
A. Easterlin agreed with Maslow.
B. Easterlin's theory contradicts with Maslow's.
C. Easterlin's theory is more popular than Maslow's.
D. Maslow's theory is more popular than Easterlin's.

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Text 3 Living standards soared during the twentieth century, and economists expect them to continue rising in the decades ahead. Does that mean that we humans can look forward to increasing happiness Easterlin admits that richer people are more likely to report themselves as being happier than poorer people are. But steady improvements in the American economy have not been accompanied by steady increases in people’s self-assessments of their own happiness. "There has been not improvement in average happiness in the United States over almost a half century -- a period in which real GDP (gross domestic product) per capital more than doubled," Easterlin reports. The explanation for this paradox may be that people become less satisfied over time with a given level of income. In Easterlin’s word: "As incomes rise, the aspiration level does too, and the effect of this increase in aspirations is to invalidate the expected growth in happiness due to high
A. Easterlin agreed with Maslow.
B. Easterlin's theory contradicts with Maslow's.
C. Easterlin's theory is more popular than Maslow's.
D. Maslow's theory is more popular than Easterlin's.

[单项选择]The living standards of the new immigrants were improved in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries mainly because
A. they kept the political bosses in power.
B. the political bosses gave them a lot of practical help.
C. they had a much stronger feeling of being a part of the larger culture.
D. there was a rapid growth in American economy at that time.

[单项选择]The statistics ______ that living standards in the area have improved drastically in recent times.
A. proves
B. is proving
C. are proving
D. prove

[单项选择]It is well admitted that the high （） rate is caused in part by failure to communicate.
A. unemployment
B. birth
C. divorce
D. inflation

[单项选择]The US achieved its predominance after World War Ⅱ because ______.


A. it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal
B. its domestic market was eight times larger than before
C. the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors
D. the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy

[单项选择]The US achieved its predominance after World War II because ______.
A. it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal
B. its domestic market was eight times larger than before
C. the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors
D. the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy

[单项选择]Apple sells its new computer models at a high price because ______.
A. they have new features and functions
B. they are more sophisticated than other models
C. they have new accessories attached
D. it wants to accumulate funds for future research