-- What about the book？ --Oh, very good. It's worth ______ a second time.

A．It is the best book on marriage. B．It is a handbook of marriage. C．It gives quite some ideas of English social life in the past. D．It provides a lot of information of former time wealthy families.

A．It is a book written only for classroom reading. B．It is a book on education. C．It has a vocabulary of only two hundred words. D．It was written by a child.

A．The man does not like to go shopping. B．The man may not want to go shopping again. C．The woman wants to buy something to wear. D．The woman tried the clothes but they didn"t fit.

A．Suggestions and techniques to help one better organize his time, study habits and resources. B．Plan or technique that could be labeled as the best and be guaranteed to fit each individual C．Efficient use of time will enable you to include both work and play. D．Activities as if going to school is a business.

A．reading B．being read C．to read D．to be read

A.It is the best book on marriage. B.It is a handbook on marriage. C.It gives some idea of English social life in the past. D.It provides a lot of information of former-time wealthy families.

A．It accepts orders from overseas. B．It has many store locations. C．It sells music. D．It offers free shipping.

An answer to the flint of these has been difficult to obtain. Although it has been possible to infer from the goods and services actually produced what manufacturers and servicing trades thought their customers wanted, only a study of relevant personal documents written by actual consumers will provide a precise picture of who wanted what. We still need to know how large this consumer market was and how far clown the social scale the consumer demand for luxury goods penetrated. With regard to this last question, we might note in passing that Thompson, while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteenth century. English history, has probably exaggerated the opposition of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general: for example, laboring people in eighteenth century England readily shifted from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries. To answer the question of why consumers became so eager to buy, some historians have pointed to the ability of manufacturers to advertise in a relatively uncensored press. This, however, hardly seems a sufficient answer. McKendrick favors a Veblen model of conspicuous consumptions stimulated by competition for status. The "middling sort" bought goods and services because they wanted to follow fashions set by the rich. Again, we may wonder whether this explanation is sufficient. Do not people enjoy buying things as a form. of self-gratification？ If so, consumerism could be seen as a product of the rise of new concepts of individualism and materialism, but not necessarily of the frenzy for conspicuous competition. Finally, what were the consequences of this consumer demand for luxuries？ McKendrick claims that it goes a long way toward explaining the coming of the Industrial Revolution. But does it？ What for example does the production of high-quality pottery and toys have to do with the development of iron manufacture or textile mills？ It is perfectly possible to have the psychology and reality of a consumer society without a heavy industrial sector. That future exploration of these key questions is undoubtedly necessary should not, however, diminish the force of the conclusion of re cent studies: the insatiable demand in eighteenth century England for frivolous as well as useful goods and services foreshadows our own world. In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to _______. A．contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in eighteenth century England B．indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to eighteenth century English history C．give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in eighteenth century England D．support the contention that key questions about eighteenth century consumerism remain to be answered

A．Saving money on a rain barrel purchase B．Ecological considerations of rain barrels C．Constructing your own rain barrels D．Setting up rain barrels

A．also B．as much as C．as well as D．as well

A. being B. there being C. there to be D. there to have been