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

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, (1)_____, depends first and (2)_____ on its capacity to produce wealth". Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money (3)_____ on things that money can buy. "Goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and " (4)_____ ". A country’s capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of (5)_____ have an effect on one another. Wealth depends (6)_____ a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a (7)_____ climate; other regions possess none of them.
    Next to natural resources (8)_____ the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well (9)_____ as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and (10)_____ wars, and (11)_____ this and other reasons was (12)_____ to develop her resources. (13)_____ and stable political conditions, and (14)_____ from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well (15)_____ by nature but less well ordered.
    A country’s standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed (16)_____ its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. (17)_____, Britain’s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on (18)_____ grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would (19)_____ be lacking. A country’s wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, (20)_____ that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.

选项 A、In short
B、For example
C、First of all
D、On one hand
答案B
解析 固定搭配及上下文理解题。本句是对上句的解释，故应选"for example"。in short"总而言之"是对上文的总结；first of all"首先，第一点"，下文应有第二点；on the one hand"一方面"，下文应接与之矛盾的另一方面。
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