unit-5-the-value-of-money--sectionⅲ-同步作業(yè)(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 e bees rich,he wants people to know even if he does not bee very rich,he wants people to think that he is what ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ is is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur told this story about began earning $125 a week at the age of was a lot of money in those got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York he saw that rich people rode horses,Momand went horseback riding every he saw that rich people had servants,Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.It was like a race,but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of moved back to an apartment in New York City.Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short called it ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ because ‘Jones’ is a very mon name in the United States.‘
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