Question 15
As in English idiom, keeping up with the Joneses means trying to do things which the neighbours, especially those of high status. In other words, it means straining oneself to live up to the …………6………… of others a social animals, human beings will always live forever in groups and collectively form societies. It is often said that no man is an island unto himself. Humans are …………7………… . The fact that they live together means they influence one another. There is the issue of peer pressure, among others. Keeping with the Joneses is a factor that can cause so much debilitation to personal ………8……… . In a society like ours, that is even more significant. The Nigerian society is not individualistic. Rather, it is collective in nature, such that the influence can be very extens In many ……10…… practices in a society. One of the most prominent things that people hold on to concerns wedding marriage. For wedding ceremonies, many exhaust their …………11……… accounts and pockets just to fulfill all obligations and meet demands and other people’s expectations. Many people even forget that the wedding takes place in only one day but marriage is till death comes knocking. The emphasis should be on how to make the marriage ……12…… and last, and not so much on entertainment. By then, putting so much expectation on wedding has always been the case. To this end, many people do not cut their coat according to their ………13……… . It is quite amazing that the cost of dying is sometimes more than the cost of living in our society. People spend just too much on burial which are always attended by peers of the same background, class social status or occupation. People of the same group try to ………14……… influence on the others over certain matters. For example, some people got wedded not because they are psychological or financially ready for marriage; some actually got married because all their friends had done so or were doing so. The resultant effect is usually that man become financially inept, while many such marriages become ………15…… . \n Adapted from Saturday tribune, 14 June, 2008
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