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Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm ’s remarkable (1) s_______ in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’s toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly (2) i______ doubt, three key questions remain: who were the consumers? What were their motives? And (3) w_______ were the effects of the new demand (4) f_______ luxuries?

An answer (5) t_______ the first of these has (6) b_______ difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to (7) i_______ from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their (8) c_______ wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We will need to know how large this consumer market was and (9) h_______ far down the social scale the consumer for (10) l_______ goods penetrated. With (11) r_______ to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people (12) t_______ the stage of eighteenth-century English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism (13) i_______ general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth-century England

2016 年 考试科目代码考试科目名称综合英语（本考试科目共 17页，第1 页）