問題詳情
Which is more valuable? Water or diamonds? Water is more useful to mankind than diamonds, and yet 23 are costlier. Why? Called the diamond-water paradox, this is a classic problem posed to students of economics. The answer 24supply and demand. Being a rare natural resource, diamonds are 25 in supply. However, their demand is high because many people buy them to tell the world that they have money, termed as conspicuous consumption in economics. In other words, the scarcity of goods is what causes humans to attribute value. If we 26 surrounded by an unending abundance of diamonds, we probably wouldn’t value them very much. Hence, diamonds carry a higher monetary value than water, even though we find more use for water.
【題組】23.
(A) another
(B) the latter
(C) the following
(D) the others
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)