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

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

[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

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The high cost of production is severely limiting which operas are available to the public. These costs necessitate reliance on large corporate sponsors, who in return demand that only the most famous operas be produced. Determining which operas will be produced should rest only with ticket purchasers at the box office, not with large corporate sponsors. If we reduce production budgets so that operas can be supported exclusively by box-office receipts and donations from individuals, then the public will be able to see less famous operas.
Which one of the following, if true, would weaken the argument（）

A. A few opera ticket purchasers go to the opera for the sake of going to the opera, not to see specific operatic productions
B. The reduction of opera production budgets would not reduce the desire of large corporate sponsors to support operas
C. Without the support of large corporate sponsors, opera companies could not afford to produce any but the most famous of operas
D. Large corporate sponsors will stop supporting opera productions if they are denied control over which operas will be produced
E. The combination of individual donations and box-office receipts cannot match the amounts of money obtained through sponsorship by large corporations

[填空题]Because of the high cost of private country clubs, many American families join their neighbors in building a community or______.

[填空题]the high cost to the consumer of new ways of distributing entertainment

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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. for
B. to
C. in
D. by