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1. No one could seriously think that anyone who grows up poor, lives in a bad neighborhood, and attends an inferiorschool has an opportunity equaltothat of someone more favored.
2. Americans may not have achieved equality, but at least they aspiretoit, which is more than many other nations can claim.
3. In many countries, when jobs become availablefor young people in distant cities, when television begins to dominatehome life, when ready – madefoods appear
in the markets, the culture appears more “American” – although the resemblance could be entirely superficial.
4. Someone who looks around or down appears shifty (不可靠的)to Americans, although infactone doesn’t stare continuously at the other person, but glances elsewhere every few seconds.
5. When the demandfor something is GREater than its supply,producersand supplierswill sensethe possibilityof makingaprofit– the excessof revenues over expenses is the profit.
6. As the case illustrates, competition takesfour general forms:purecompetition, monopoly,monopolisticcompetition,and oligopoly(少数制造商对市场的控制).
7. Theclassicexampleof pure competition occurs with a commodity, like wheat or corn, that has so many producers that no one of them can control its selling price.
8. A monopoly occurs when one company alone offers a particular food or service and therefore controls the market and price for it.
9. Private restaurants serve gourmet food for $70 per person; incentives boosted agricultural production 25 percent and industrial output 80 percent in just three
years; farmers are encouraged to raise as much as they can on their own plots, and some become almost rich in the process.(注意本句中分号的使用)
10. All these changes in China’s economic life have brought changes in China’s social and cultural life as well, many of which unwanted.
11. If productivity measures the efficiency of an economy, a measure of what an economic system produces is its gross national product (GNP), which is the current market value of all final goods and services that a nation produces within a particular period.
12. Current wisdom says that (当前流行的看法认为)if you want a successful
product, you need first to perform detailed market analysis, making sure that there are plenty of people who need the new product and that your entry into the market will be able to gain a significant share of that market.