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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, __________(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.. V7 X2 ?% w# M [0 P) Z3 l x
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.
$ M9 k, e8 x, Z5 W. ?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.3 l, {) D! f% F8 K6 y% L
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.- F& e' v* G* i1 r. S8 F
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