Money has many ironies (Adapted from Psychology of Money)
Money has many ironies, and here is an important one: wealth is what you do not see. On spotting a Ferrari driving around, (7) _______. In reality, however, many drivers of expensive cars turn out to be only mediocre successes who spend a huge percentage of their paycheck on a vehicle. Someone driving a hundred-thousand-dollar car might indeed be wealthy. Yet the only firm data point you have about their wealth is that they have a hundred thousand dollars less than they did before they bought the car or a hundred thousand dollars more in debt. (8) _______.
We tend to judge wealth by what we see (9) _______. We cannot peer into people's bank accounts or brokerage statements, so we rely on outward appearances to gauge financial success: cars, houses, photographs on social media. Modern capitalism has turned helping people fake it until they make it into a cherished industry. (10) _______. Wealth hides in the nice car not purchased, the diamonds left in the shop and the first-class upgrade declined. Wealth is the financial assets that have not yet been converted into the stuff you see.
Hence, we should be careful (11) _______. It is more than mere semantics; not knowing the difference is the source of countless poor money decisions.
(Adapted from Psychology of Money)
We tend to judge wealth by what we see (9) _______. We cannot peer into people's bank accounts or brokerage statements, so we rely on outward appearances to gauge financial success: cars, houses, photographs on social media. Modern capitalism has turned helping people fake it until they make it into a cherished industry. (10) _______. Wealth hides in the nice car not purchased, the diamonds left in the shop and the first-class upgrade declined. Wealth is the financial assets that have not yet been converted into the stuff you see.
Hence, we should be careful (11) _______. It is more than mere semantics; not knowing the difference is the source of countless poor money decisions.
(Adapted from Psychology of Money)
Question 9.
Question 9.
Chọn một phương án bên dưới để kiểm tra đáp án ngay:
Đáp án chính thức: A
Hướng dẫn giải chi tiết
Chọn A. because external clues are the only information we have to work with
Câu hoàn chỉnh:
“We tend to judge wealth by what we see because external clues are the only information we have to work with.”
Nghĩa: Ta thường đánh giá sự giàu có bằng thứ ta nhìn thấy vì các dấu hiệu bên ngoài là thông tin duy nhất ta có.
Câu hoàn chỉnh:
“We tend to judge wealth by what we see because external clues are the only information we have to work with.”
Nghĩa: Ta thường đánh giá sự giàu có bằng thứ ta nhìn thấy vì các dấu hiệu bên ngoài là thông tin duy nhất ta có.