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1、Autrnia was formerly a major petroleum exporter, but in recent years economic depression and restrictive regulations inhibited investment in new oil fields. As a consequence, Autrnia oil exports dropped steadily as old fields became depleted. Autrnia's currently improving economic situation, together with less-restrictive regulations, will undoubtedly result in the rapid development of new fields. However, it can be concluded that the rapid development of new fields will result in higher oil exports, since........

答案是：the improvement in the economic situation in Autrniais expected to result in a dramatic increase in the proportion of Autrnians who want automobiles.
我选的是：many of the new oil fields in Autrnia are likely to be as productive as those that were developed during the period when Autrnia was a major oil exporter.

2、The growing popularity of television-based activities was widely predicted to result in a corresponding decline in newspaper reading. Recent studies have found that, in Britain, people who own televisions read, on average, significantly less newspaper than people who do not own televisions. But in itself this finding does very little to show that television use tends to reduce newpaper reading time, because..........

答案是： television owners in Britain predominantly belong to demographic group that have long been known to spend less time reading newspaper than the population as a whole does.
我选的是：many television owners in Britain have enough leisure time that spending significant amounts of time on the television still leaves ample time for reading newspaper

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