The American economic system is organized around a basic private- 1.______ enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumer

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问题     The American economic system is organized around a basic private- 1.______
enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine
what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace
for these goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, 2.______
striving to make profits, producing these goods and services in competition 3.______
with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive
pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced.
Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual
consumers, coupling with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits 4.______
and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, together determine 5._____
what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
    An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism
which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. 6.______
In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system,
a process in which prices rise and fall in response with relative demands 7. ______
of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is
in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid down and 8.______
some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on other hand, 9.______
producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend
to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower
the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Because price is 10.______
the regulating mechanism in the America economic system.  

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答案coupling——coupled

解析 本题为非谓语动词误用。couple是及物动词,couple sb./sth.with sb./sth.,表示把两种事物合起来或联系起来,所以主句主语与couple的逻辑关系是被动关系,应当用过去分词。
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