阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，并涂在答题卡相应的位置上。 1、 ACountry''s Standard of Living (C) The "standard of living" of any country means theaverage person''s share of the goods and services the country produces. Acountry''s standard of living, __ 1 __, depends first and __2__ on its capacityto produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do notlive on money __3__ on things that money can buy: "goods" such asfood and clothing, and "services" such as transport and"entertainment"1. A country''s capacity to produce wealth depends uponmany factors, most of __4__ have an effect on oneanother. Wealth depends __5__ a great extent upon acountry''s natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied withcoal and minerals, and have fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regionspossess none of them.Next to natural resources __ 6__ the ability to turn them touse. China is perhaps as well-off __7__the USA innatural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars,and __8__ this and other reasons was __9__ to develop her resources. Sound andstable political conditions, and __10__ from foreign invasions, enable acountry to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and toproduce more wealth than another country equally well favouredby nature but less well ordered2. A country''s standard of living does not onlydepend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed __ 11__ its own borders,but .also upon what is directly produced through international trade. __ 12__.,Britain''s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be muchless if she had to depend only on __13__ grown at home. Trade makes it possiblefor her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agriculturalproducts that would __14__ be lacking. A country''s wealth is, therefore, muchinfluenced by its manufacturing capacity, __15__ that other countries can befound ready to accept its manufactures.
