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湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (45) 1.阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 John Keynes, a famous economist, in his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren”, wrote that human needs fall into two classes: absolute needs, which are independent of what others have, and relative needs, which make us feel superior to our fellows. He thought that although relative needs may indeed be insatiable (无止境的) , this is not true of absolute needs. Keynes was surely correct that only a small part of total spending is decided by the desire for superiority. He was greatly mistaken, however, in seeing t