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A Country's Standard of Living
1 d$ K8 a% G0 u7 ZThe "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, __________(51), depends on its capacity to produce wealth. 'Wealth" __________(52) this sense is not money, for we do not live on money __________(53) on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and =services" such as transport and entertainment.$ l! r, @% G; R' s. d0 h+ `2 l% d* m
A country's capacity to produce 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 possess none of them./ S& e+ v" M, t' V7 |( R1 @6 v
Next to natural resources __________(56) the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well-off __________(57) the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and __________(58) this and other reasons was __________(59) 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 wealth than another country equally well favoured by nature but less well ordered.7 W* J/ ?3 S, n/ g( t
A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed __________(61) its own borders, but also upon what is directly produced through international trade. __________(62), Britain's wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on __________(63) grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus (过剩的) manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would __________(64) be lacking. A country's wealth is, therefore, much __________(65) by its manufacturing capacity, provided (如果) that other countries can be found ready to accept its manufactures./ ?+ A! g- n6 a6 N- Y) b. B
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