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第6部分：完形填空（第52~65题，每题1分，共15分）
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A Country’s Standard of Living
The “standard of living” of any country means the average person’s share of the goods and services the country produces. A country’s standard of living, therefore, ____ (51) first on its capacity to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this ____ (52) is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy, “goods” such as food and clothing, and “services” such as transport and entertainment.
A country’s capacity to ____ (53) wealth depends upon many factors, most of ____ (54) have an effect on one another. Wealth depends ____ (55) a great extent upon a country’s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have fertile（肥沃的）soil and a favorable climate; other regions ____ (56) none of them.
Next to natural resources comes the ability to ____ (57) them to use. China is perhaps as rich as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years ____ (58) civil and external wars, and for this and other ____ (59) was unable to develop her resources. Sound and stable political conditions, and ____ (60) from foreign invasions, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more ____ (61) than another country equally well favored by nature but less well ordered.
A country’s standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and ____ (62) within its own borders, but also upon what is directly produced through international trade. For example, Britain’s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural ____ (63) would be much less if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus（剩余的）manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products ____ (64) would otherwise be lacking. A country’s wealth is, therefore, much influenced by its manufacturing capacity, ____ (65) that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures.
51．A．calls B．gets C．depends D．takes
52．A．sense B．article C．side D．area
53．A．distribute B．produce C．contain D．buy
54．A．that B．these C．what D．which
55．A．for B．to C．in D．by
56．A．contribute B．possess C．attract D．develop
57．A．move B．force C．turn D．push
58．A．as B．on C．with D．from
59．A．reasons B．aspects C．points D．services
60．A．freedom B．liberation C．prevention D．government
61．A．wealth B．report C．effect D．result
62．A．provided B．increased C．created D．consumed
63．A．organizations B．resources C．products D．labors
64．A．who B．that C．where D．when
65．A．based B．realized C．supposed D．provided
