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  3. The 19th-century British Aristocracy The British aristocracy had always been involved in industrialization, especially in th

The 19th-century British Aristocracy The British aristocracy had always been involved in industrialization, especially in th

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问题                     The 19th-century British Aristocracy
    The British aristocracy had always been involved in industrialization, especially in the development of mining, canals, and railways. It now shrewdly associated itself with the new wave of commercial expansion: most banks and insurance companies had a lord to add tone to the managerial board. It also shored up its fortunes by astute marriages, notably with the new aristocracy of wealth in the United States; the best-known example was the marriage of the duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt. By these means, many of the great aristocratic estates were preserved despite agricultural decline. But they were playthings as well as engines of wealth, and came to be treated as such. The aristocracy came to be known to the urban population chiefly through their representation in the popular press and magazines as men and women of leisure; racing, hunting, shooting, and fishing in the country, gambling and attending the season in London. In a population for which leisure was becoming increasingly important, this did not make the aristocracy unpopular.
In the second sentence of this passage, "had a lord to add tone to the managerial board" means that______.
选项 A、the banks and insurance companies would hire a lord on the board to give advice to their management
B、having lords involved in the management gave the banks or companies a very good public image
C、lords worked for the banks and insurance companies to bring in more profits
D、it had become a fashion to have a lord on the managerial board of a bank or a company
答案B
解析 理解题。通读全文可知，贵族既是受人摆布的人，又是制造财富的工具。让贵族进入商界只是为了有一个良好的公众形象。所以正确答案是B项。
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