Someone has calculated that by the time an American reaches the age of 40, he or she has been exposed to one million ads. Another estimate is that we have encountered more than 600, 000 ads by the time we reach the age of only 18. Now, of course, we don’t remember what exactly they said or even what the product was, but a composite message gets through: that you deserve the best, that you should have it now, and that it’s okay to indulge yourself, because you deserve the compliments, sex appeal, or adventure you are going to get as a result of buying this car or those cigarettes.
Our consumer-based economy makes two absolutely reciprocal psychological demands on its members. On the one hand, you need the "discipline" values to ensure that people will be good workers and lead orderly, law-abiding lives. On the other hand, you need the "enjoy yourself" messages to get people to be good consumers. One author was disturbed about the "enjoy
A. pervasive
B. successful
C. convincing
D. impressive
| For someone whose life has been
shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office,
the subdued, bitter man in his 30s—using an assumed name for the interview
relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products
sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped,"
says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine. " last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected]," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife. " Luckily, he hasn’t. Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly vi A. was around thirty odd with his pseudonym B. was called Hiroshi Shimizu who was raped by the doctor C. was an infuriated, clamorous adolescent who got married four years ago D. was a greatly upset young man who got his blood transfusion about ten years ago [单项选择]For someone whose life has been shattered, Hiroshi Shimizu is remarkably calm. In a cramped Tokyo law office, the subdued, bitter man in his 30s—using an assumed name for the interview relates how he became infected with the HIV virus from tainted blood products sold by Japanese hospitals to hemophiliacs during the mid-1980s. "I was raped," says Shimizu. "I never thought doctors would give me bad medicine. "
last year, Shimizu was shocked when a doctor newly transferred to his hospital broke the news. Four years earlier, he had asked his previous doctor if he could safely marry. "He told me: ’There’s absolutely no problem,’ even though he knew [I was infected]," Shimizu says. "I could have passed it to my wife. " Luckily, he hasn’t. Shimizu is one of more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and their loved ones infected with the deadly virus before heat-treated blood products became available in Japan. It’s a tragedy—and now it’s a national scandal. In recent weeks, the country has been A. was around thirty odd with his pseudonym B. was called Hiroshi Shimizu who was raped by the doctor C. was an infuriated, clamorous adolescent who got married four years ago D. was a greatly upset young man who got his blood transfusion about ten years ago 我来回答: 提交
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