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1、2022年考博英语-北京师范大学考试题库及全真模拟冲刺卷（附答案带详解）1. 单选题Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in 18th-century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firms remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery ; Plumb has written about the
2、proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and childrens 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 motives? And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries?An answer to the
3、 first of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufactures and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise pic
4、ture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and how far down the social scale the consumer demand for luxury goods penetrated. With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of 18th
5、-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general; for example, laboring people in eighteenth-century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban bre
6、weries.To answer the question of why consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient answer. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumption stimulated b
7、y competition for status. The middling sort bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich. Again, we may wonder whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy buying things as a form of self-gratification? If so, consumerism could be seen as a product
8、of the rise of new concepts of individualism and materialism (a preoccupation with or stress upon material rather than intellectual or spiritual things) , but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition.Finally, what were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries? McKendric
9、k claims that it goes a long way toward explaining the coining of the Industrial Revolution. But does it? What, for example, does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do with the development of iron manufacture or textile mills? It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and
10、reality of a consumer society without a heavy industrial sector.That future exploration of these key questions is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of recent studies: the insatiable demand in eighteenth-century England for frivolous as well as useful goo
11、ds and services foreshadows our own world.1.In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to（）.2.Which of the following items, if preserved from 18th-century England, would provide an example of the kind of documents mentioned in lines 3-4, Paragraph 2?3.Acc
12、ording to the text, Thompson attributes to laboring people in 18th-century England which of the following attitudes toward capitalist consumerism?4.In the third paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with（）.5.According to the text, 18th-century England and the contemporary world of the text re
13、aders are（）.问题1选项A.contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in 18th-century EnglandB.indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to 18th-century English historyC.give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in 18th-century Engl
14、andD.support the contention that key questions about 18th-century consumerism remain to be answered问题2选项A.A written agreement between a supplier of raw materials and a supplier of luxury goods.B.A diary that mentions luxury goods and services purchased by its author.C.A theater ticket stamped with t
15、he date and name of a particular play.D.A payroll record from a company that produced luxury goods such as pottery.问题3选项A.Enthusiasm.B.Curiosity.C.Ambivalence.D.Hostility.问题4选项A.contrasting two theses and offering a compromiseB.questioning two explanations and proposing a possible alternative to the
16、mC.paraphrasing the work of two historians and questioning their assumptionsD.examining two theories and endorsing one over the other问题5选项A.dissimilar in the extent to which luxury consumerism could be said to be widespread among the social classesB.dissimilar in their definitions of luxury goods and servicesC.dissimilar in the extent to which luxury
