专四模拟试题1.doc

专四模拟试题1 Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet. The “standard of living” of any country means the average persons share of the goods and services the country produces. A countrys standard of living, ____31_______, depends first and???? 32???? on its capacity to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money???? 33???? on things that money can buy: “goods” such as food and clothing, and “services” such as transport and “????? __34 __ ” . A countrys capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of???? 35???? have an effect on one another. Wealth depends??? 36???? a great extent upon a countrys natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a???? 37???? climate; other regions possess none of them. Next to natural resources???? 38???? the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well??? 39???? as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and???? 40???? wars, and???? 41??? this and other reasons was???? 42???? to develop her resources.????? 43???? and stable political conditions, and????????? 44??? _____ from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well????? 45??? by nature but less well ordered. A countrys standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and consumed?? 46? it own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade.??? 47??? Britains wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much less if she had to depend only on??? 48?? _ grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would????????? 49?? be lacking. A country’s wealth is