問題詳情

“Keeping up with the Joneses” is a catchphrase in many parts of the English-speaking world. Just like“keeping up appearances,” it refers to the 11 to one’s neighbors as a standard for social status or theaccumulation of material goods. Generally speaking, the more luxuries people have, the higher their valueor social status—or 12 they believe. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is thus perceived asrevealing socio-economic inferiority or, as the Chinese would put it, a great loss of face.The 13 was popularized when a comic strip of the same name was created by cartoonist ArthurR. “Pop” Momand. The strip was first published in 1916 in the New York World, and ran in Americannewspapers for 28 years before it was eventually 14 into books, films, and musical comedies. The“Joneses” of the title were rich neighbors of the strip’s main characters and, interestingly, they weremerely 15 but never actually seen in person in the comic strip.
11.
(A) reaction
(B) attachment
(C) similarity
(D) comparison

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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