In the eighteenth century one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that “ the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country” provided revenue to “three different orders of people: those who live by rent, those who live by wages, and those who live by profit”. Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the social structure more complicated.?
Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small-scale industrialists as well as large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men such as doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.?
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the possession of wealth inevitably affected a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working-class parents. But they lacked social training of the upper class, who despised them as the “new rich.”?
They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to acquire social training. Here their children, mixed with the children of the upper classes, were accepted by them, and very often found marriage partners from among them. In the same way, a thrifty, hardworking labourer, though not clever himself, might save for his son enough to pay for an extended secondary school education in the hope that he would move in a “white-collar” occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale.?
In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook. The upper classes no longer are the sole, or even the main possessors of wealth, power and education, though inherited social position still carries considerable prestige.
小題1:What criterion did Adam Smith seem to go by in his classification of social groups?
A．The amount of wealthB．The amount of money
C．The social statusD．The way of getting money
小題2:If you compare the first and second paragraph, what groups of people did Adam Smith leave out in his classification?
A．Officials and employees.B．Peasants and farmers.
C．Doctors and teachers.D．Tradesmen and landlords.
小題3:Who were the ‘new rich’ during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
A．They were still the upper class people.
B．They were owners of large factories.
C．They were intelligent industrialists.
D．They were skilled workers who made their fortune.
小題4:According to the passage, what did those people do who intended to make their children move up in the social ladder?
A．They saved a lot of money for their children to receive higher education.
B．They tried to find marriage partners from the children of the upper class.
C．They made greater fortunes by their wits.
D．They worked even harder to acquire social training.
小題5: In the twentieth century class differences have been partly smoothed out by ____.
A．increased income and decreased taxation
B．taxation, social services and educational opportunities
C．education, the increase of income and industrial development
D．the decrease of the upper class population

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：本文是說明文，講述18世紀(jì)亞當(dāng)斯密以社會的分類，其中沒有包括農(nóng)民，而隨著社會的發(fā)展對高額的收入增加稅收，社會服務(wù)和教育機(jī)會的擴(kuò)大，階級差別逐漸模糊。
小題1:D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到the whole annual produce of the land and labour of every country” provided revenue to “three different orders of people: those who live by rent, those who live by wages, and those who live by profit”.這個社會分為三種，一種靠租房生活，一種靠工資生活，一種是靠利潤生活，所以他的判斷的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)是以掙錢的方式來判斷，故選D項(xiàng)。
小題2:B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中所提到Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.農(nóng)民是在所有的國家中是獨(dú)立的群體。這是Adam Smith所遺漏的。故選B項(xiàng)。
小題3:C文章的第三段Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their wits which lifted them into an economic group far higher than that of their working-class parents指出“new rich”是指富有進(jìn)取心的精明企業(yè)家賃智慧而發(fā)財?shù)娜�，�?C為正確選項(xiàng)
小題4:A文章的第四段指出They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to acquire social training.那些存有足夠的錢讓子女接受特殊的學(xué)校教育的人希望他們的孩子能提高社會地位，所以A為正確選項(xiàng)
小題5:B文章的最后In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social services, and the wider development of educational opportunity have considerably altered the social outlook作者說明對高額收入增加稅收，社會服務(wù)和教育機(jī)會的擴(kuò)大，階級差別逐漸模糊，所以B為正確選項(xiàng)
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