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新视线大学英语第三版第二册课文语法解说Unit5 新视线大学英语第三版第二册课文语法解说Unit5 PAGE / NUMPAGES 新视线大学英语第三版第二册课文语法解说Unit5 可编写可改正 新视线三版 读写 B2 U5 Text A Spend or save — The students dilemma Do you feel as confused and manipulated as I do with this question, Should I spend or should I save I think that the messages we get from our environment seem to defy common sense and contradict each other. The government tel s us to spend or wel never get out of the recession. At the same time, they tel us that unless we save more, our country is in grave offer higher interest rates so we increase savings. Then the same banks send us credit card offers so we can spend more. Heres another familiar example: If we dont pay our credit card bil on time, we get demanding, nasty emails from the credit card company saying something like: Your failure to pay is unacceptable. Pay immediately or youl be in trouble! Then, as soon as we pay, we get a fol ow-up email in a charming tone tel ing us how valuable a customer we are and encouraging us to resume spending. Which depiction is correct: a failing consumer in trouble or a valued customer The gap between these two messages is enormous. 3 The paradox is that every day we get two sets of messages at odds with each other. One is the permissive perspective, Buy, spend, get it now. You 1 可编写可改正 need this! The other we could cal an upright message, which urges us, Work hard and save. Suspend your desires. Avoid luxuries. Control your appetite for more than you truly need. This message comes to us from many sources: from school, from parents, even from political figures referring to traditional values. Hard work, family loyalty, and the capacity to postpone desires are core American values that have made our country great. * 4 But the opposite message, advertisings permissive message, is inescapable. Though sometimes disguised, the messages are everywhere we look: on TV, in movies on printed media and road signs, in stores, and on buses, trains and invade our daily lives. We