TOEFL 入学测试卷 TOEFL ibt 测试卷 R 测试时间: 测评教师: 学生姓名: 测评地点: 学员成绩: /120 TOEFL 入学测试卷 1 Time: 60 minutes Score: READING SECTION DIRECTIONS The reading section measures your ability to read and understand passages in English. For most questions, you will choose the one best answer of four possible answers. You have 20 minutes to read the passage and answer all of the questions. TOEFL 入学测试卷 2 Readin g 1 “Layers of Social Class” Taken together, income, occupation, and education are good measures of people’s social standing. Using a layered model of stratification, most sociologists describe the class system in the United States as divided into several classes: upper, upper middle, lower middle, and lower class. Each class is defined by characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, and educational attainment. The different groups are arrayed along a continuum with those with the most money, education, and prestige at the top and those with the least at the bottom. In the United States, the upper class owns the major share of corporate and personal wealth; it includes those who have held wealth for generations as well as those who have recently become rich. Only a very small proportion of people actually constitute the upper class, but they control vast amounts of wealth and power in the United States. They exercise enormous control throughout society. Most of their wealth is inherited. → Despite social myths to the contrary, the best predictor of future wealth is the family into which you are born. Each year, the business magazine Forbes publishes a list of the “Forbes 400” – the four hundred wealthiest families and individuals in the country. Of all...