Enthusiasm
Curiosity
Ambivalence
Stubbornness
Hostility
20. In the third paragraph, the author is primarily concerned with
contrasting two theses and offering a compromise
questioning two explanations and proposing a possible alternative to them
paraphrasing the work of two historians and questioning their assumptions
examining two theories and endorsing one over the other
raising several questions but implying that they cannot be answered
21. According to the passage, a Veblen model of conspicuous consumption has been used to
investigate the extent of the demand for luxury goods among social classes in eighteenth-century England
classify the kinds of luxury goods desired by eighteenth-century consumers
explain the motivation of eighteenth-century consumers to buy luxury goods
establish the extent to which the tastes of rich consumers were shaped by the middle classes in eighteenth-century England
compare luxury consumerism in eighteenth-century England with such consumerism in the twentieth century
22. According to the passage, eighteenth-century England and the contemporary world of the passages readers are
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