2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精讲训练9.docVIP

2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精讲训练9 Passage One Equality of opportunity in the twentieth Century Has Not Destroyed the Class System These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the ‘great classless society’. The idea that the twentieth century is the age of the common man has become one of the great clichés of our time. The same old arguments are put forward in e vidence. Here are some of them: monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited. The monarchies that survive have been deprived of all political power. Inherited wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the grea