多选题 {{U}}Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England.{{/U}} McKendrick has explored the Wedgwood firm's remarkable success in marketing luxury pottery; Plumb has written about the proliferation of provincial theaters, musical festivals, and children's toys and books. While the fact of this consumer revolution is hardly in doubt, three key questions remain: Who were the consumers? What were their motives? And what were the effects of the new demand for luxuries?
In the first paragraph, the author mentions McKendrick and Plumb most probably in order to:

A. contrast their views on the subject of luxury consumerism in eighteenth-century England.
B. indicate the inadequacy of historiographical approaches to eighteenth-century English history.
C. give examples of historians who have helped to establish the fact of growing consumerism in eighteenth-century England.
D. support the contention that key questions about eighteenth-century consumerism remain to be answered.
E. compare one historian's interest in luxury goods such as pottery to another historian's interest in luxury services such as musical festivals.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的关键词McKendrick和Plumb回原文定位，二个例子共同证明一个观点，即概述句(Historians have only recently begun to note the increase in demand for luxury goods and services that took place in eighteenth-century England)，将概述句进行同义词改写，得出C选项为正确答案。