SCIENTISTS SAY THAT THE EARTH IS UNIQUE BECAUSE NO OTHER PLANET H...

Câu 32: Scientists say that the Earth is unique because no other planet has conditions which enables

A B C

the existence of intelligent life.

D

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct word for each of the blanks from 33 to 42.

What is meant by the term economic resources? In general, these are all the natural, man-made, and

human resources that go into the ___ (33)___ of goods and services. Economic resources can be broken

down into ___ (34)___ general categories: property resource – land and capital, and human resources –

labor and entrepreneurial skills.

What do economists mean ___ (35)___ land? Much more than the non-economist, land refers to all the

natural resources ___ (36)___ are usable in the production process: arable land, forests, mineral and oil

deposits, and ___ (37)___ on. What about capital? Capital goods are all the man-made aids to producing,

storing, transporting, and distributing goods and ___ (38)___. Capital goods differ from consumer goods

in that ___ (39)___ satisfy wants directly, while the former do so indirectly by facilitating the production

of consumer goods. It should be noted that capital as defined here does not ___ (40)___ to money.

Money, as such, produces nothing.

The term labor refers to the physical and mental talents of humans used to produce goods and services

(with the exception of a certain set of human talents, entrepreneurial skills, which will be considered

separately because of their special significance). Thus the services of a factory worker or an office

worker, a ballet ___ (41)___ or an astronaut all fall ___ (42)___ the general heading of labor.