[单项选择]This is the question that came to mind when I (67) the book We Are Becoming Poorer.
It is quite (68) for people to say they are becoming poorer when (69) the rising prices of daily necessities. (70) , it seems cynical for the writer to just describe how a particular person (71) by the real property prices or how heavy the (72) pressure is for a young white-collar worker, who has to pay a mortgage, provide for his aged parents and save money for his single child’s education in the future.
Let’s put things in perspective and (73) the price of a single daily necessity, rice or wheat flour today with the price two decades ago. A kilo of rice cost 0.40 yuan in the early 1980s, now the price of rice is 6 or 8 yuan a kilo, more than 10 times the price 30 years ago. But during the same period my salary rose by more than 100 times. In the 1980s (74) half of my salary would (75) daily necessities, now the <