How important is shopping to you? How much time do you spend buying things? And how much time do you spend organizing these things in your home? In the future, how much time will you spend in movie theaters, at amusement parks, at shopping malls, or at convenience stores? When you add it all up, you will probably see you spend a lot of your life consuming (消费) things. Consuming products is not necessarily bad. However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.
Imagine that you have a week off from school. You don’t have to go to class. However, in this week, you cannot spend any money — no shopping, no movies, no eating out. How would you spend your time? What things would bring you happiness? Perhaps you would take a walk with your best friend. Perhaps you would help a child read. Or you might spend time with your family.
When we look back, it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories. Why? Non-consuming activities are active, not passive. They don’t come in a package. You make the experience yourself. For example, each person who reads to a child will have a different experience. The experience changes with the reader, the child, and the book. Similarly, when you have a conversation with a friend, you are actively creating an experience. The conversation that you have with your friend cannot be experienced or recreated by anyone else. However, if you watch a movie with a friend, you will each have a packaged experience. It requires no action and little interaction between the two of you.
The environment we live in encourages us to have packaged experiences. We feel that we must consume because we believe that buying is doing. However, we can start a personal revolution (变革) against consumerism. How? By consuming less. We can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatest satisfaction. Then we can organize our lives so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.
49. If consuming products takes too much time, we should ______.
  A. spend less money    B. think about it carefully
  C. organize our things  D. go to convenience stores
50. According to the passage, the writer believes that ______.
  A. we can say no to consumerism by consuming less
  B. buying things can bring us the greatest satisfaction
  C. the environment seldom influences our shopping choices
  D. consuming experiences will be our most important memories
51. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?
  A. To introduce some ways of enjoying our spare time.
  B. To encourage people to have more active experiences.
  C. To explain reasons behind people’s shopping behavior.
  D. To share his personal experience in consuming products.
A题材：生活消费
【主旨大意】本文是一篇议论文。消费对你来说有多重要？你在消费东西上花费多少时间？之后作者分析了无消费活动的好处和可以做的事情及不同的体验受。表达了不过度购物消费，多积极的体验的观点。
49. B【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段的最后一句话 However, if we spend too much time doing it, we should look at it carefully.可知，如果我们花太多时间购物，我们应该仔细地考虑。 原文与选项B意思一致，故正确答案为选项B。
50.  A 【解析】推理判断题。题干意为“根据文章，作者相信 ______。”短文第四段第三句 However, we can start a personal revolution against consumerism. How? By consuming less.与选项A表达意思一致，故正确答案为选项A。短文第四段倒数第二句 We can ask ourselves what experiences bring us the greatest satisfaction,并未提到购物可以带来最大的满足感，与B选项不符。短文第四段第一句 The environment… encourages us…，与选项C不符。根据短文第三段第一句 “… it is likely that non-consuming experiences like these will be our most important memories.” 可知是 “non-consuming experiences” 可以带来最难忘的记忆，与选项D不符。故正确答案为选项A。
51.  B  【解析】主旨大意题。文章第一段最后一句提出观点：如果我们花太多时间购物，我们应该仔细地考虑。文章第二段提出：如果我们不花钱，我们将做哪些事情来给我们带来快乐。根据文章第三段第一句 When we look back,.. most important memories 可知，不用消费的经历是我们最重要的回忆。本段第三句“Non-consuming activities are active” 可知不用消费的活动是积极的。最后一段根据 “We can ask ourselves。。so that we have more of those kinds of experiences.” 可知，我们要组织我们的生活是为了有更多这样的经历。结合第三段可知这些经历指的是不用购物，是积极的经历。综合以上可知文章的目的是提倡更多积极的体验，而不是提倡过度购物。与选项B “To encourage people to have more active experiences” 意思一致。故正确答案为选项B。