[問題] og 3rd 短篇RC問題已刪文
版友好，想請教一個短篇閱讀問題：
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 United States between 1825 and 1850.
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 community’s 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.
4. According to the passage, Pessen indicates that all of the following were
true of 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 accumulated their own fortunes.
E) Many of them retained their wealth in spite of financial upheavals.
答案是D，其實還算可以理解
我的疑問在B選項: "Many of them" were able to increase their holdings.
對應的題目線索在 第10~11行
"in several cities the wealthiest one percent constantly increased its
share until by 1850 it owned half of the community’s wealth"
看到one percent實在無法跟many連結起來..就選到它了 囧
是我理解有誤嗎？還是這裡的one percent沒有辦法表示not many？
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