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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、comes
B、come
C、coming
D、came
答案A
解析 语法知识题。本句因状语提前而主谓倒装，主语是ability，谓语动词需选一般现在时第三人称单数形式comes。本段接上文讲影响生产水平的因素，"继自然资源的多寡之后就是利用他们的能力"。
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