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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] 【S6】
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答案 A
解析 根据句法分析，我们可以确定该空为一个后置定语，通常为形容词。该语境意思为：他们能够设法让政府通过______ 的法律。根据语境意思和下方的选项，我们可以确定[A] favorable为该题答案。favorable to somebody 意思为“对…有利的”。
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