单选题
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, (51) , depends first and (52) on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in 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".
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 soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess none of them.
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.
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 manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would (64) 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.

单选题 A. however B. furthermore C. similarly D. therefore
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这里要填入的副词表示这句话和前面一句话之间的意义关系，这两句话之间存在的是因果关系，即“因为……所以”，因此应填入therefore。
单选题 A. primary B. all C. foremost D. mainly
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】first and foremost是一个固定的词组，意思是“首先，最重要的是”，其他三个选项都不可以跟在first and…的后面。
单选题 A. or B. but C. nor D. besides
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这里需要一个表示反转意义的连词，句子的意思是“我们的生活不依赖钱，而依赖用钱能买到的东西”。表示“而”只能用“but”。
单选题 A. these B. that C. what D. which
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这是一个定语从句，它所修饰的先行词是factors，也就是most of the factors。四个选项里可以引导定语从句的只有that和which两个，由于这是个非限定性的定语从句，所以只能用which。
单选题 A. at B. to C. by D. with
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】extent前面用to，如to a large/small/certain extent，在很大/很小/一定程度上，其他介词都不能用。
单选题 A. came B. coming C. comes D. come
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这个空格应该填入的是这个句子的谓语动词，注意这个句子是倒装句，其主语位于谓语动词的后面，即：the ability to turn them to use，主语是单数的，所以应该用单数动词comes。
单选题 A. to B. like C. by D. as
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这里用的是表示同级比较的as…as…结构，意思是中国和美国在自然资源方面同样富裕。
单选题 A. because B. for C. of D. by
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】reason前面总是用for，for this and other reasons，因为这个以及别的原因。
单选题 A. uneasy B. incapable C. impossible D. unable
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】注意这里的主语是China，要说“中国不能做……”只能用“China is unable to do ...”。 impossible只能用在It is impossible for China to…这样的句型里，incapable后面要用of,不直接跟动词不定式。
单选题 A. prevention B. freedom C. liberation D. liberty
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这里需要的是一个名词，整个句子的主语是“良好、稳定的政治条件，不受外国侵略。”表示“不受”这个意思只能用freedom。
单选题 A. at B. by C. within D. on
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这里需要表示的是“在自己国家的版图之内”。所以应用within its own borders。
单选题 A. In short B. For example C. As a result D. On the other hand
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这个句子里讲的英国的情况是作为一个例子来证明前面—句话的内容的，即一个国家的生活水平不单单取决于自己版图范围内所产生和消费的财富，同时也取决于通过国际贸易间接产生的财富。所以应该用For example。
单选题 A. which B. what C. that D. those
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这里要填入的是一个代词，代替上文中讲到的foodstuffs and other agricultural products，所以要用复数的代词those。
单选题 A. otherwise B. certainly C. however D. therefore
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】这里需要表示的是一种否定的假设，即“否则，要不然。”这个句子的意思是：贸易使得英国能把自己生产的多余货物拿到国外去换取否则就会匮乏的农产品。
单选题 A. depended B. supposed C. based D. provided
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】这里需要的是一个连接前后两句的连词，在四个选项里只有provided可以用来连接句子，表示条件。整句的意思是：因此一个国家的财富深受本身生产能力的影响，条件是能找到其他的国家愿意接受它的产品。