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[单项选择]Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England. MeKendrick has explored the Wedgewood Firm’s remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery. Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals and children’ s toys and books. While the feat of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain : Who were the consumers What were their motives And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries
An answer to the first of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and service actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and how far down the social scale the con
A. illustrate that laboring people were ignored
B. illustrate that laboring people also had great consumptive power
C. predict that laboring people would always shift to capital urban breweries
D. explain why capitalists had such great consumptive power
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Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and service that took place in eighteenth century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm’ s remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferations of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’ s toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers What were their motives7 And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries
An answer to the flint of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and
A. The growing demand for luxury goods and services was a major factor in the coming of the Industrial Revolution.
B. The Industrial Revolution exploited the already existing demand for luxury goods and services.
C. Although the demand for luxury goods may have helped bring about the Industrial Revolution, the demand for luxury services did not.
D. There is no reason to believe that the Industrial Revolution was directly driven by a growing demand for luxury goods and services.
[单项选择]Only in recent years have people begun to realize the importance of wildlife protection.
A. 直到近年来人们才越来越意识到保护野生动物的重要性。
B. 只是在最近几年里人们才开始发现并保护了很多重要的野生动物。
C. 直到近年来人们才开始意识到保护野生环境的紧迫性。
D. 直到近年来人们才开始了解保护野生动物的重要性。
[填空题]It is only in recent years that people have begun to know about wind power.
[填空题]Until recently most historians spoke very critically of the Industrial Revolution. They ________ that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the ________ man. But they insisted that its ________ results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty and misery for the ________ of the English population. ______ contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a ______ agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity.
This view, ______ , is generally thought to be wrong. Specialists ________ history and economics, have ________ two things: that the period from 1650 to 1750 was ________ by great poverty, and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace.
A. A．On
B．With
C．For
D．By
