司法五等（庭務員）
114年
[庭務員] 公民與英文
第 46 題
📖 題組：
In the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s 46 to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending 47 they can. Researchers once conducted studies on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found that about 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. Companies used these studies to market their products directly to children, 48 them to nag their parents to buy. This is only one example of how consumers can be 49 into wanting and buying. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products; 50 , they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.
In the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s 46 to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending 47 they can. Researchers once conducted studies on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found that about 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. Companies used these studies to market their products directly to children, 48 them to nag their parents to buy. This is only one example of how consumers can be 49 into wanting and buying. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products; 50 , they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.
In the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s 46 to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending 47 they can. Researchers once conducted studies on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found that about 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. Companies used these studies to market their products directly to children, 48 them to nag their parents to buy. This is only one example of how consumers can be 49 into wanting and buying. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products; 50 , they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.
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- A merchant
- B penchant
- C resentment
- D element
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方的描述「to be careless with their money（對金錢大意）」，這是一種行為特徵。如果大企業能從這種行為中獲利，那麼他們會希望公眾具備一種什麼樣的「心理傾向」或「習慣」？在不看選項的情況下，你會用哪個中文詞來形容這種「傾向」？