Passage 3
学霸导读 攀比现象并不是在现代社会才出现的。让我们通过1913 年一个美国年轻人的故事来了解一下攀比心理吧！
In the United States, when you become rich, you want people to know about it. And even if you aren’t very rich, you want people to think that you are. That is w 1 “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was f 2 used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very rich neighborhood o 3 New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never f 4 this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could not pay for their new way of life any l 5 . They moved back to New York City, living in an old f lat.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people did things just to keep up with the rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories about this. He called it “keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very c 6 name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series a 7 in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
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高频词汇
keep up with 跟上，不落人之后
neighborhood /'neɪbəhʊd/ n. 街区，城区
servant /'sɜːvənt/ n. 仆人，用人
hire /'haɪə（r）/ v. 雇用