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Recording Three

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        An American researcher who studied 600 millionaires found how rich you can get comes down to six “wealth factors”. She found that six behaviors are related to net worth potential, regardless of age or income. These were thriftiness, confidence, responsibility, planning, focus, and social indifference.

        Being thrifty comes as no great surprise. “Spending above your means, spending instead of saving for retirement, spending in anticipation of becoming wealthy makes you a slave to the paycheck, even with an astronomical level of income,” she wrote. (22) [To properly build wealth, experts recommend saving 20% of your income and living off the remaining 80%.]

        Having confidence is another key characteristic, as it helps people to be thrifty. It takes confidence to live within your means. (23) [It also takes confidence to invest properly—instead of making investing decisions with your emotions, financial planners advise that you should leave your investments alone and focus on a long-term investment plan.] 

        But people can’t invest or manage their own money without accepting responsibility for the outcomes. Many millionaires take on personal responsibility, and most also happen to be self-made, meaning they didn’t acquire their wealth through luck. (24) [Millionaires don’t count on anyone else to make them rich, and they don’t blame anyone else if they fall short.] They focus on things they can control and align their daily habits to the goals they have set for themselves. They tend to be goal-oriented and hard workers, which enables them to plan financially and focus on seeing those plans through. 92% of the millionaires surveyed developed a long-term plan for their money, and 97% almost always achieved the goals they set for themselves.

        And it is these behaviors that make it easy for them to be socially indifferent. They resist lifestyle creep, the tendency to spend more whenever one earns more. (25) [Essentially, they don’t yield to pressure to buy the latest thing or to keep up with others or what they have acquired.] Instead of being focused on what might make them happy today, they’re focused on their long-term wealth-building plan.

25. Why does the speaker say millionaires are socially indifferent?（为什么讲话者说百万富翁会在社交上表现冷淡？）

解析：B。录音中提到，一些行为使百万富翁很容易在社交上表现冷淡，接着在后面说明具体的行为：他们抵制生活方式的膨胀，不会迫于压力去购买最新的东西，或者与其他人或他们所拥有的东西攀比。B项与此内容相符，其中do not try to对应录音中的don’t yield to pressure to，keep up with others原词复现，故为正确答案。

错项排除：A项利用录音中的resist和lifestyle进行干扰，但录音中是说他们抵制生活方式的膨胀，并不是抵制新奇的生活方式，故A项排除。C项利用录音中的what they have acquired进行干扰，但录音中是说他们不会与他人拥有的东西攀比，并不是不在乎自己得到了什么，故C项排除。D项利用录音中的pressure和rich进行拼凑，但拼凑出的意思与录音不符，故错误。