今天小编来给大家分享一些考试中常用的语句真题，一起来看看吧。
　　Historians have only recently begun to study the increase in demand for luxury goods and services 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 rapid increase 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?
　　（想想你会怎么出题？）
　　In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably to___________
　　[A] compare their interest in luxury goods and in luxury services.
　　[B] confirm key questions about 18th-century England consumerism.
　　[C] contrast their views on luxury consumerism in 18th-century England.
　　[D] exemplify historians who have proved the growing consumerism.
　　头一句：
　　Historians have only recently begun to study the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England.
　　参考译文：历史学家直到近一段时间才开始研究18世纪英国对奢侈品和服务需求的增长情况。
　　第二句：
　　McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm’s remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the rapid increase of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children’s toys and books.
　　参考译文：麦肯德里克探讨了韦奇伍德公司在销售豪华陶器方面的非凡成功；帕朗柏写了地方剧院、音乐节和儿童玩具及书籍的迅速增长。 　　第三句：
　　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?
　　参考译文：尽管这场消费的事实是毫无疑问的，但仍然存在三个关键问题：谁是消费者？他们的动机是什么？对奢侈品的新需求产生了什么影响？
　　解析：
　　这是一道典型的区分论点和论据的题目，例证题
　　回文定位：
　　找到例子，以及例子对应的结论。而例子对应的结论才是线索句。
　　思路解析：论据不是关键主要是找到论据所对应的论点和结论，
　　这里的结论就是头一句：
　　Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England.
　　这段时间，历史学家们开始去关注在18 世纪英国发生的，对于奢侈品和奢侈服务需求的上升。
　　[D] exemplify historians who have proved the growing consumerism
　　对应头一句，正确！
　　例证了确实有这样的历史学家。
　　[B] confirm key questions about 18th-century England consumerism.
　　定位错误！
　　[A] compare their interest in luxury goods and in luxury services.
　　定位错误！
　　[C] contrast their views on luxury consumerism in 18th-century England.
　　定位错误！