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Coronavirus or not, we remain locked into a routine life that measures progress by growing GDP rather than by wellbeing and environmental sustainability. This is an economic pattern that has served most of us – particularly the most affluent – pretty well for decades. But the richer we’ve got, the more the benefits have tailed off. There have been a number of studies showing that, beyond a certain point, more wealth does not necessarily equal more happiness – true at a societal level as well as an individual one.
思考题：
The author believes that GDP__.
A. merely served the interests of the rich
B. should be complemented by other factors
C. is not a very common economic pattern
D. decreases as the society grows ever richer
词汇突破：
Coronavirus 新冠病毒
wellbeing 幸福
environmental sustainability 环境的可持续发展
tail off 减少
句子解析：
第一句：
Coronavirus or not, we remain locked into a treadmill （that measures progress by growing GDP rather than by wellbeing and environmental sustainability.）
参考译文：不论有没有新冠肺炎，我们都仍被困在通过国民生产总值增长而非福祉和环境可持续性来衡量进步的死循环中。
开头是个省略：
Whether there is coronavirus or not,
第二句：
This is an economic paradigm that has served most of us – particularly the most affluent – pretty well for decades.
参考译文：这是一种几十年来服务了我们大多数人（尤其是最富裕的那撮人）的经济范式。
第三句：
But the richer we’ve got, the more the benefits have tailed off.
参考译文：但是，我们越富裕，收益就越会慢慢减少。
第四句：
There have been a number of studies showing that, beyond a certain point,more wealth does not necessarily equal more happiness – true at a societal level as well as an individual one.
参考译文：有许多研究表明，过了某一个点之后，更多的财富并不一定等于更多的幸福——在个人层面和社会层面都是如此。
思考题解析：
A. merely served the interests of the rich
（只是为富人的利益服务）
A选项错误。merely= only,不是只为富人服务的。
B. should be complemented by other factors
（应辅以其他因素）
正话反说，既然只有GDP不够，那就改辅以其他的因素。
B选项正确。
C. is not a very common economic pattern
（不是一个非常流行的经济范式）
这就是一个很常见的范式。
C选项错误。
D. decreases as the society grows ever richer
（随着社会变得越来越富裕而逐渐减少）
是幸福感越来越少了，而不是GDP所以排除！
D选项错误。
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