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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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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.
The "astute marriages" in the passage refers to marriages between______.
选项
A、British aristocracy and rich American entrepreneurs
B、old British aristocratic families and newly knighted aristocracy of wealth
C、aristocratic families and new business families of money and enterprises
D、big landlord families in the British countryside and rich American tycoons of industry
答案
C
解析
细节题。从文中内容可知,贵族涉足商业的一种方式是大多数的银行和保险公司都会有位贵族在董事会的管理层中任职。另一方面就是通过婚姻,特别是通过在美国和财富新贵结婚来维持自己的财富,也就是贵族家庭和新兴商业家庭的联姻。所以正确答案是C选项。
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