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#英語(高校生)#英文法#英文解釈
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問題文全文(内容文)：
即効英文解釈講座第2講
「アフルエンザ」について解説しています。
【問題文】
（１）
Modern-day families are buying more than ever before. The typical American family owns more goods than families fifty years ago
- second cars and televisions, CD players, DVD players, and kitchen tools and clothing
- that far exceed their living space. (1)As the income of today's family has increased, so have the number and frequency of purchases.
（２）
For many peaple, economic growth and an increase in possessions are signs of progress, but for anti-consumer groups over- consumption is a sickness. A recent Public Broadcasting Service documentary invented the term affluenza, which describes consumption of material goods in a strongly negative wav.
（３）
The term afflaenza combines two words: *affluence and influenza. According to anti-consumer and environmental rights organizations, the high consumption lifestyles of affluence cause people to be less happy even though they ar acquiring more "things." The major negative effect on the environment is that over-consumption is depleting the world's natural resources, anti-consumer groups argue.
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