[单项选择]They have considered their high standard of living a(n) （　） for practising their basic beliefs.
A. award
B. reward
C. result
D. consequence

[填空题]In the 1970s, the high standard and cost of living contributed to the emergence of ______.

[单项选择]
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, 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 to (53) 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 (56) none 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 suffer
A. calls
B. gets
C. depends
D. takes

[单项选择]The higher the standard of living and the greater the national wealth, （　）.
A. the greater amount of paper is used
B. the greater is the amount of paper is used
C. the greater the amount of paper used
D. the amount of paper is used is greater