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1、本文格式为word版，下载可任意编辑高中英语美文摘抄100字 高中英语美文摘抄 美文美读需要腾出时间、置身情境和熟读成诵,当我们引导同学在关注背景、圈点勾画、梳理评判、表达沟通并不断温习和诵读时,美文之美才会诗意地贮存在同学的心田。我共享高中英语美文，盼望可以关心大家! 高中英语美文：cost of living 给生命定价 your money or your life. the choice traditionally presented by the highwayman(拦路强盗) is supposed to have only one sensible answer. money

2、is, after all, no use to a corpse. yet economists often study something rather like the highwaymans offer in an attempt to uncover the answer to an important question: how much is your life actually worth? like many awkward questions, this is one that has to be answered. safety regulations save live

3、s but also raise the cost of doing business, a cost we all pay through higher prices. are they worth it? our taxes pay for life-saving spending on road safety and fire fighting. are they high enough, or too high? so how much are we willing to spend to save a life? a traditional planners approach use

4、d to be to measure the value of wages lost due to death or injury. thats dreadful: it confuses(使混乱) what i think my life is worth with what my boss thinks my life is worth. so an alternative is to ask people how much they would pay for a safer car or kitchen cleaner. but such surveys do not always p

5、roduce sensible results. our answers depend on whether were being offered a safer ?10 household cleaner and then asked if we want the more dangerous ?5 version, or whether were offered the ? 5 brand and then asked if well pay ?10 for the safer product. people often answer no to both questions, contr

6、adicting themselves. these inconsistencies mean that were either irrational or lying to pollsters(民意测验专家) , and perhaps both. economists therefore tend to prefer observing real choices. if youre willing to cross a busy street to pick up a 20 note, the economist who put it there can infer something a

7、bout your willingness to accept risk. more orthodox approaches look at career choices: if youre willing to be a lumberjack(伐木工人) , part of that decision is to accept risk in exchange for financial reward. being a soldier is risky; so is being a drug-dealer or prostitute. the difficulty, evidently, i

8、s to disentangle(解开) the health risk and the financial reward from all the other motivations to choose a particular way of life. that isnt easy but economists try. world bank economist paul gertler and his colleagues reckoned that mexican prostitutes valued their lives at about $50,000 per year, bas

9、ed on willingness to take money not to use condoms. at five times their annual earnings, thats a similar figure to workers accepting risky jobs in rich countries. there are anomalies. steve freakonomics levitt and sociologist sudhir venkatesh calculated that chicago drug dealers seemed to value thei

10、r entire lives at $50,000 to $100,000 - low indeed, even for poor young men whose career choice indicates a taste for risks. whatever the frailties of these calculations, they are the best we have. and far from cheapening life, this sort of research often highlights just how valuable our safer, heal

11、thier modern lives really are. kevin murphy of the chicago graduate school of business recently visited london to present his research on the value of health improvements in the us since 1970. theyre vast - about $10 trillion in todays money. looking further back, if you had to choose between the ma

12、terial progress of the 20th century and the improvements in health, it would be a toss-up. the health gains are as valuable as everything else put together. encouragingly, health in most developing countries has improved faster than in rich ones, suggesting that global inequality is falling. and a more personal piece of good news: murphy reckons the