The sense of delayed gratification, of working now for later pleasure, has helped shape the economic behavior of our society. However, that sense is no longer nurtured as consistently in our children as it once was. For example, it used to take a bit of patience to put together the toys that children got in cereal boxes; now the toys come from the boxes whole.
Which of the following is an assumption of the passage above?
The sense of delayed gratification, of working now for later pleasure, has helped shape theeconomic behavior of our society. However, that sense is no longer nurtured asconsistently in our children as it once was. For example, it used to take a bitof patience to put together the toys that children got in cereal boxes; now thetoys come from the boxes whole.
Which of the following is an assumption ofthe passage above?
A. The toys in cereal boxes have changed partlybecause the economic conditions of our society have improved. B. The influence of promotion gimmicks on theeconomic behavior of our society has increased over the years. C. The toys that used to come in cereal boxeswere put together by the same children who played with them. D. !Part ofthe pleasure of any toy lie in putting the toy together before playing with it. E. Today's children do not expect a single toyto provide pleasure for a long period of time.
选C罢。。。题目假设:玩玩具小孩和put toys together 的小孩是同一个人。也就是说题目假设A小孩先put toys 2gether了,才开始玩。而不是他的父母 put toys together了,再直接给A玩,如果是他父母组装的,题目就不成立了,所以题目是建立在组装,玩,都是小孩一个人在弄的基础上