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第6部分：完形填空(第51～65题，每题1分，共15分) 下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 A Countrys Standard of Living 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， (51)， depends on its capacity to produce wealth. Wealth (52)this sense is not money， for we do riot live on money (53) 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 (54) have an effect on one another. Wealth depends (55) a great extent upon a countrys natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals， and have fertile (肥沃的) 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. | 
