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  3. In the eighteenth-century, one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the"whole annual produce of the land and

In the eighteenth-century, one of the first modern economists, Adam Smith, thought that the"whole annual produce of the land and

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问题     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, official 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 the 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.
According to the passage, what did labourers do if they intended to make their children move up in the social ladder? (  )
选项 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.
答案A
解析 本题为理解题，文章倒数第二段第一句提到，他们将子女送到专业学校学习技能。需要注意只要找到题目所对应的文章位置就可以做答。
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