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The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterpr

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问题     The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the market-place for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to (47)______ profits, produce these goods and service in (48)______ with  other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the (49)______ of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together (50)______ what  shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
    An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by Which consumers’ demands can be expressed and responded (51)______ by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and (52)______ in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be (53)______ from the market. If, on the other (54)______, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.
   The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources(private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain (55)______ over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property (56)______ not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

                 Word Bank:
A. eliminated                  I. make
B. implies                     J. to
C. embraces                    K. in
D. hand                        L. fall
E. determine                   M. decrease
F. control                     N. demand
G. competition                 O. compete
H. determination
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答案 E
解析 空格所在的句子结构为“It is...that…”强调句型,此处缺谓语动词,在谓语动词前又有副词together,因此该动词为原形。又从上下文的语境可知determine“决定”最合适,此强调结构的意思是：消费者个人的需求,企业主获取最大利润的渴望以及消费者希望最大限度地提高货币购买力的渴望,决定着生产什么以及如何利用资源进行生产。
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