Pessen does present a quantity of examples,together with some refreshingly intelligible statistics, to establish the existence of an inordinately wealthy class. Though active in commerce or the professions, most of the wealthy were not self-made, but had inherited family fortunes. In no sense mercurial, these great fortunes survived the financial panics that destroyed lesser ones. Indeed, in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly increased its share until by 1850 it owned half of the communitys wealth. Although these observations are true, Pessen overestimates their importance by concluding from them that the undoubted progress toward inequality in the late eighteenth century continued in the Jacksonian period and that the United States was a class-ridden, plutocratic society even before industrialization.
The authors attitude toward Pessens presentation of statistics can be best described as
disapproving
shocked
suspicious
amused
laudatory
初读原文时,红色字体是我们要标注的内容。值得注意的是,不能在看到Pessen时就选择了负态度,题干问的是作者对于Pessens presentation of statistics的态度,而不是对Pessen本人。因此,在做态度题时,一定看清题目问题,是谁对谁的态度。现在看原文中的态度句:
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