It is hard to get any agreement on the
precise meaning of the term "social class" In everyday life, people tend to have
a different approach to those they consider their equals from that which they
assume with people they consider higher or lower than themselves in the social
scale. The criteria we use to place a new acquaintance, however, are a complex
mixture of factors. Dress, way of speaking, area of residence in a given city or
province, education and manners all play a part. In the eighteenth-century one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the "whole annual produce of the land and labor of every country’ provided revenue to "three different orders of people: Those who live by rent, those who live by wages, those who live by profit" . Each successive stage of the industrial revolution, however, made the soci A. Mainly by their way of speaking. B. According to the place where they were born. C. By regarding them inferior to ourselves. D. According to a complex mixture of factors. [单项选择]
{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly considered to be a man of sharp contemporary observation. He was, formally, perhaps clerically educated, as his Latin and music, his Biblical and patristic lore indicate. He is, still, celebrated mainly for his quick sympathy for the oppressed and forgotten man, his sharp eye for character, a ready ear for colloquial vernacular turns of speech and a humor alternately rude and boisterous, coarse and happy. Hence despite his conscious artistry as manifest in his feeling for intricate metrical and stanza forms, he is looked upon as a kind of medieval Steinbeck, indignantly angry at, uncompromisingly and even brutally realistic in presenting the plight of the agricultural poor. Thus taking the play and the author together, it is mow fairly conventional to regard the fo A. He was Chaucer’s contemporary. B. He is remembered as the author of five or six realistic plays. C. He writes like John Steinbeck. D. He was an accomplished artist. [单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}}
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