六级阅读理解精选练习.docVIP

第 PAGE 页码 页码 页 / 总页数 NUMPAGES 总页数 总页数 页 六级阅读理解精选练习 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《六级阅读理解精选练习》的内容，具体内容：在英语六级考试中做好阅读理解对于考取高分十分重要，考生需要多做练习提高阅读能力。下面我为大家带来，欢迎各位同学阅读练习。原文The standard of ... 在英语六级考试中做好阅读理解对于考取高分十分重要，考生需要多做练习提高阅读能力。下面我为大家带来，欢迎各位同学阅读练习。 原文 The standard of living of any country means the average persons share of the goods and services which the country produces. A countrys standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. Wealth in this sense 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 countrys capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great extent upon a countrys natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of these things, and some regions possess none of them. The U. S. A is one of the wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources within her borders, her soil is fertile, and her climate is varied. The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy. Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well off as the U. S. A. in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and for this and other reasons was. unable to develop her resources. Sound and stable political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another important factor is the technical efficiency of a countrys people. Old countries that have, through many centuries, trained u