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问题     acquire     lack         such as     possession     to        affect
    despise     as well as   which       inherited      towards   pay for
    Many intermediate groups grew up during the nineteenth-century between the upper middle class and the working class. There were small-scale industrialists【G1】________large ones, small shopkeepers and tradesmen, officials and salaried employees, skilled and unskilled workers, and professional men【G2】________doctors and teachers. Farmers and peasants continued in all countries as independent groups.
    During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the【G3】________of wealth inevitably【G4】________a person’s social position. Intelligent industrialists with initiative made fortunes by their working-class parents. But they lacked the social training of the upper class, who【G5】________them as the "new rich".
    They often sent their sons and daughters to special schools to【G6】________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(节俭的) , hardworking labourer, though not clever himself, might save for his son enough to【G7】________an extended secondary school education in the hope that they would move into a "white-collar" occupation, carrying with it a higher salary and a move up in the social scale.
    The tendency to move down in social class is less obvious, for a claim to an aristocratic birth, especially in Europe, has always carried a certain distinction, and people have made tremendous efforts to obtain for their children the kind of opportunities they had for themselves. In the twentieth century the increased taxation of higher incomes, the growth of the social service 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【G8】________ social positions still carries considerable prestige.
    Many people today are hostile【G9】________class distinctions and privileges and hope to achieve a classless society. The trouble is that as one inequality is removed, another tends to take its place, and the best that has so far been attempted is a society in【G10】________distinctions are elastic(可变的)and in which every member has fair opportunities for making the best of his abilities.
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