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正确答案：B
解析：第五段第一句话“Under conditions such as those described above，it is not surprising that no privileged class should have come into existence through long possession of landed estate or other permanent source of income．”，说的是“在这种情况下，没有哪个阶层能通过长期占有地产或其他永久收入成为特权阶级”，这样就排除了C和D。第三句话“Snobbery，when discouraged in one quarter, is prone to appear in some new form. elsewhere.”说的是“势利，虽然为人不齿，总会以新的形式在别的地方表现出来”，这样就排除了A。第四句“Recent investigations by A.A. Congalton and R.J．Havighurst show that there is a fairly well defined and universal appreciation of the graduated social status attaching to various social occupations.”指的是新西兰人还是很倾慕那些职业带来的社会地位，因此答案为B。