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The United States became a rich industrial nation toward the end of the 1800s. There were more goods, more services, more jobs,

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问题     The United States became a rich industrial nation toward the end of the 1800s. There were more goods, more services, more jobs, and a higher【S1】______of living. There was more of everything, including problems. ’One problem was monopoly(垄断)-- that is, be the only seller of a certain line of【S2】______or a service. In some cases, several companies that manufactured the same product would agree not to【S3】______with one another. They would all agree to charge the same price. These arrangements made it impossible for【S4】______to shop around for lower prices for certain products.
    Some people decided that【S5】______corporations had too much power and controlled too many markets. Because of their wealth and power, they could see to it that governments passed laws【S6】______to them. Many people believed that monopoly and price fixing were bad for customers and bad for the country so that they should be broken up.
【S7】______, the national government and some states passed laws that placed limits on corporations and big companies. These laws made it illegal for companies to make agreements to charge only a certain price. Later on the【S8】______government forced monopoly to be broken up. Such laws and government actions didn’t【S9】______do away with monopolies. Nor did they stop the growth of huge corporations. But they did【S10】______that American people had decided that some of the changes that had occurred were harmful.

A)favorable                                                 I)compete
B)finally                                                   J)huge
C)national                                                  K)products
D)entirely                                                  L)standard
E)show                                                      M)look
F)cooperate                                                 N)most
G)customers                                                 O)special
H)anywhere
【S4】
选项
答案G
解析 根据句法分析，该空内容应该是动词；该句的意思为：他们的协议使得顾客不可能以较低的价格买到某些商品。此外，语境中for somebody to shop around for something这一结构也对该题答案起到了提示作用。综上所述，我们可以确定答案为[G]customers。
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