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ny of the home electric goods which are supposed to liberate women_________ A. remove unpleasant aspects of housework. B. Save the housewife very little time. C. Save the housewife’s time but not her money. D. Have absolutely no value for the housewife. 67. According to the context, capital investment refers to money _____ A. spent on a washing machine. B. borrowed from the bank. C. saved in the bank. D. lent to other people. 68. The goods advertised in women’s magazines are really meant to ________ A. free housewives from housework. B. Encourage housewives to go out to work. C. Turn housewives into excellent cooks. D. Give them a false sense of fulfillment. Text B The ― standard of living‖ of any country means the average persons share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country39。s 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 goods such as food and cloth ing, and services such as transport and entertainment. A country39。s 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 country39。 s natural re sources, 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 none of them. Next to natural resources es the ability to turn them to use. Some countries are per haps well off in natural resources, but suffered for many years from civil and external wars, and for this and other reasons have been unable to develop their resources. 39。Sound and stable political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natu ral resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered. Another impor