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When a country is under-populated, newcomers are not competitors, but assistants. If more come they may produce not only new quotas, but a (1)as well. In such a state of things land is (2)and cheap. The possession of it(3) no power or privilege. No one will work for another for wages(4) he can take up new land and be his own master. Hence it will pay no one to own more land than he can (5) by his own labor, or with such aid as his own family (6). Hence, again, land (7) little or no rent; there will be no landlords living on rent and no laborers living on (8), but only a middle class of yeoman farmers. All are (9) on an equality, and democracy becomes the political form, because this is the only state of society in which equality, on which democracy is (10), is realized as a fact. The same effects are powerfully (11) by other facts. In a new and under-populated country the industries which are most profitable are the extractive industries. The (12) of these, with the exception of some kinds of mining, is that they call (13)only a low organization of labor and small amount of capital. Hence they allow the workman to become (14) his own master, and they educate him to freedom, independence, and self- (15). At the same time, the social groups being only (16) marked off from each other, it is easy to (17) from one class of occupations, and consequently from one social grade, to another. Finally, under the same circumstances, education, skill, and superior training have but inferior value compared with what they have in (18) populated countries. The (19) lie in an under-populated country, with the (20), unskilled, manual occupations, and not with the highest developments of science, literature, and art.

问题1选项
A.surplus
B.plus
C.remains
D.remainder
问题2选项
A.scarce
B.sacred
C.abundant
D.extractive
问题3选项
A.infers
B.defers
C.confers
D.refers
问题4选项
A.but
B.when
C.while
D.so
问题5选项
A.cultivate
B.culminate
C.calculate
D.conceive
问题6选项
A.requests
B.supplies
C.implies
D.deploys
问题7选项
A.fosters
B.promotes
C.bears
D.contributes
问题8选项
A.rewards
B.salaries
C.wages
D.awards
问题9选项
A.intentionally
B.potentially
C.substantially
D.consistently
问题10选项
A.fertilized
B.based
C.drawn
D.guaranteed
问题11选项
A.influenced
B.checked
C.reinforced
D.reshaped
问题12选项
A.feature
B.characteristic
C.essence
D.fundamental
问题13选项
A.off
B.on
C.to
D.for
问题14选项
A.speedily
B.merrily
C.unfortunately
D.amusingly
问题15选项
A.autonomy
B.reliance
C.dependence
D.regulation
问题16选项
A.obviously
B.vaguely
C.positively
D.apparently
问题17选项
A.transfer
B.transform
C.transmit
D.transport
问题18选项
A.sporadically
B.densely
C.loosely
D.neatly
问题19选项
A.advantages
B.disadvantages
C.gains
D.deficits
问题20选项
A.flexible
B.coarse
C.presentable
D.masculine
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