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　　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 producesA country’s standard of living, therefore 51 first on its capacity to produce wealth. “Wealth” in this 52 is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy: “goods” such as food and clothing，and “services” such as transport and entertainment　　A country’s capacity towealth 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 regionsnone of them. Next to natural resources comes the ability to 57 them to use. China is perhaps as rich as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years 58 civil and external wars and for this and other 59 was unable 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 61 than another country equally well favored by nature but less well ordered. 　　A countr’s standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and 62 within its own borders, but also upon what is directly produced through international trade, for example, Britain’s wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural 63 would be much less if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus (过剩的) manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural productswould otherwise 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. 51. A calls B gets C depends D takes 52. A sense B article C side D area 53. A distribute