Grace is a self-employed artist. She can make 20 pieces of pottery per week. She is consid

Along with bones from humans and animals, they uncover pieces of pottery, tools and even the remains of campfires.(翻译)

Researchers have employed all of the following methods in researching potential explanations of the Anasazi evacuation EXCEPT

A．the study of modern Indian societies

B．the study of climatological records

C．the study of pottery

D．the study of Anasazi mythology

E．the study of ceremonial structures

It can be concluded from the last paragraph that _____.

A．products of Potter films have brought enormous profits to Warner.

B．current Hollywood's marketing of Potter may damage its potential.

C．readers could get tired of Ms. Rowling's writings sooner or later.

D．Warner will maintain the same strategy with Potter in future.

It can be concluded from the last paragraph that ______.

A．products of Potter films have brought enormous profits to Warner

B．current Hollywood's marketing of Potter may damage its potential

C．readers could get tired of Ms. Rowling's writings sooner or later

D．Warner will maintain the same strategy with Potter in future

The methods the villagers of Bat Trong use to mold, fire and hand-paint pottery can date back to 16th century.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and service that took place in eighteenth century England. McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm's remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferations of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children's toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries?

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

The author mentions the excavation in Cyprus (lines 31-34) to emphasize which of the following points?

A．Ancient lamps and pottery vessels are less valuable, although more rare, than royal seal impressions.

B．Artifacts that are very similar to each other present cataloguing difficulties to archaeologists.

C．Artifacts that are not uniquely valuable, and therefore could be sold, are available in large quantities.

D．Cyprus is the most important location for unearthing large quantities of salable artifacts.

E．Illegal sales of duplicate artifacts are wide-spread, particularly on the island of Cyprus.