求解一道阅读题No4

silaweiUID: 3008863

NO4-2-A-S的25题
Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was not a fluid, egalitarian society where individual wealth and poverty were ephemeral conditions. At least so argues E. Pessen in his iconoclastic study of the very rich in the United States between 1825 and 1850.
Pessen does present a quantity of examples, together with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made, but had inherited family fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones. Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned half of the community’s wealth. Although these observations are true, Pessen overestimates their importance by concluding from them that the undoubted progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even before industrialization.
  
      
   25. According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were true of the very wealthy in the United States between 1825 and 1850 EXCEPT:
        (A) They formed a distinct upper class.
        (B) Many of them were able to increase their holdings.
        (C) some of them worked as professionals or in business.
        (D) Most of them accumulated their own fortunes.
        (E) Many of them retained their wealth in spite of financial upheavals.

正确答案是D，但是B选项是怎么排除的呢
其中的Many of them 我觉得跟文章中划红线的句子the wealthiest one percent 不相符合啊，一个是许多，一个是1%，求达人解惑，感激不尽啊！！

hua11UID: 3027785

这里many of them只是描述那群很富有的人中有很多人的财富在经济动荡中保存下来了并持续增加。them 指的是富人，不是全部人口，故不需要考虑1%

silaweiUID: 3008863

这里many of them只是描述那群很富有的人中有很多人的财富在经济动荡中保存下来了并持续增加。them 指的是富人，不是全部人口，故不需要考虑1%
hua11 发表于 2011-5-16 23:42

谢谢斑竹热心解答。。。
可以说得更具体些吗，是定位到？

hua11UID: 3027785

谢谢斑竹热心解答。。。
可以说得更具体些吗，是定位到？
silawei 发表于 2011-5-17 02:56

至于定位，我也很困惑，只能得到模糊概念。另外，1%的具体含义是指富商的数量占的比例么，我怎么感觉是财富增加的速度。欢迎讨论啊

silaweiUID: 3008863

再次顶起~~

silaweiUID: 3008863

至于定位，我也很困惑，只能得到模糊概念。另外，1%的具体含义是指富商的数量占的比例么，我怎么感觉是财富增加的速度。欢迎讨论啊
hua11 发表于 2011-5-17 08:05

我明白斑竹的意思了。。
是从1%的财富占有比例，到后来占有整个社会财富的一半
但我还是没法得出many of them 的结论。。。困惑中。。