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   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 UnitedStates between 1825 and 1850.    Pessen does present a quantity of example, together with some refreshinglyintelligible statistics, to establish the existence of an inordinately wealthy class.Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not selfmade,but had inherited family fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunessurvived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones. Indeed, in several cities thewealthiest one percent constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned half of thecommunity’s wealth. Although these observations are true, Pessen overestimates theirimportance by concluding from them that the undoubted progress toward inequality inthe late eighteenth century continued in the Jacksonian period and that the UnitedStates was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even before industrialization.
7. According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were trueof 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 accumulate their own fortunes.
(E) Many of them retained their wealth in spite of financial upheavals.

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答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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