The United States became a rich industrial nation toward the end of the 1800

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问题    The United States became a rich industrial nation toward the end of the 1800s. There were more goods, more services, more jobs, and a higher【S1】______of living. There was more of everything, including problems. ’One problem was monopoly(垄断)-- that is, be the only seller of a certain line of【S2】______or a service. In some cases, several companies that manufactured the same product would agree not to【S3】______with one another. They would all agree to charge the same price. These arrangements made it impossible for【S4】______to shop around for lower prices for certain products.
Some people decided that【S5】______corporations had too much power and controlled too many markets. Because of their wealth and power, they could see to it that governments passed laws【S6】______to them. Many people believed that monopoly and price fixing were bad for customers and bad for the country so that they should be broken up.
【S7】______, the national government and some states passed laws that placed limits on corporations and big companies. These laws made it illegal for companies to make agreements to charge only a certain price. Later on the【S8】______government forced monopoly to be broken up. Such laws and government actions didn’t【S9】______do away with monopolies. Nor did they stop the growth of huge corporations. But they did【S10】______that American people had decided that some of the changes that had occurred were harmful.

A)favorable                                              I)compete
B)finally                                                 J)huge
C)national                                                 K)products
D)entirely                                                 L)standard
E)show                                                    M)look
F)cooperate                                              N)most
G)customers                                              O)special
H)anywhere [br] 【S9】

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答案 D

解析该空为状语，即：副词。该句的意思为：这些法律和政府行为没有_____ 铲除垄断。根据以上分析结合方框内的副词选项，我们不难看出[D] entirely(完全地)符合文章的意思。

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