The "standard of living" of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services which the country produces. A

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问题     The "standard of living" of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country ’s standard of living【C1】______,depends first and 【C2】______on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money,【C3】______on things that money can buy : "goods" such as food and clothing and "services" such as transport and【C4】______.
    A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of【C5】______have an effect on one another. Wealth depends【C6】______a great extent upon a country’s natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well【C7】______with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a【C8】______climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of these things, and some regions possess none of them. The U.S.A . is one of the wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources【C9】______her borders, her soil is fertile, and her climate is【C10】______The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealth.
    Next to natural resources【C11】______the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well 【C12】______as the U.S.A. in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and 【C13】______wars, and for this and other reasons was unable to develop her resources.【C14】______and stable political conditions, and【C15】______from foreign invasion , enable a country to develop her resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well【C16】______by nature but. less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical【C17】______of a country’s people. Old countries that have , through many centuries, trained up numerous skilled craftsmen and technicians【C18】______better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled. Wealth also produces wealth, ...its people have a large【C19】______for saving, and can put their savings into factories and machines which will help workers to【C20】______more goods in their working day.
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选项 A、furthermore
B、therefore
C、however
D、nevertheless

答案B

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