A big goal of advertising is to increase your consumption. Everyone needs to consume; we all need to eat, drink and buy basic necessities. But a lot of advertising is aimed at convincing us that we should have much more than we need. This involves encouraging us to throw out possessions that are still good or which could be recycled, _____39_____ extra things we may never use. This excess consumption not only _____40_____ the world’s resources but also increases pollution and waste. Children born today in London or New York, for example, will consume, pollute, and waste fifty times more than children born in a developing country.
It’s estimated that more than 1.7 billion people make up the world’s consumer society: people who have more money to spend than _____41_____ to cover their basic needs. This number is increasing every year. But these 1.7 billion do not spend _____42_____ . A fifth of the world’s population, mostly people in Japan, North America, and Europe, are responsible for 90 percent of consumption. 【題組】40 (A)pulls up (B)uses up (C)takes up (D)calls up
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