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XX年公共英语四级考试阅读模拟试题7 As regardssocial conventions,we mustsay aword aboutthe well-known Englishclass system.『This isan embarrassingsubject forEnglish people,and onethey tendto beashamed of,though duringthe presentcentury class-consciousness hasgrown lessand less,and theclass systemless rigid.』
①But itstill existsbelow thesurface.Broadly speaking,it meansthere aretwo classes,the“middle class”and the“working class”.We shallignore fora momentthe old“upper class”,including thehereditary aristocracy,since itis extremelysmall innumbers;but someof itsmembers havethe rightto sitin theHouse ofLords,and somenewspapers takea surprisinginterest intheir privatelife.The middleclass consistschiefly ofwell-to-do businessmenand professionalpeople ofall kinds.The workingclass consistschiefly ofmanual andunskilled workers. The mostobvious differencebetween themis intheir aent.Middle-class peopleuse slightlyvarying kinds...。