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根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/1/18日考研习题练习中，答错率较高，为：46%
【单选题】When a country is under-populated, newcomers are not competitors, but assistants. If more come they may produce not only new quotas, but a (1) as well. In such a state of things land is (2) and cheap. The possession of it (3) no power or privilege. No one will work for another for wages (4) he can take up new land and be his own master. Hence it will pay no one to own more land than he can (5) by his own labor, or with such aid as his own family (6) . Hence, again, land (7) little or no rent; there will be no landlords living on rent and no laborers living on (8) , but only a middle class of yeoman farmers(自耕农).All are (9) on an equality, and democracy becomes the political form, because this is the only state of society in which equality, on which democracy is (10) , is realized as a fact. The same effects are powerfully (11) by other facts. In a new and under-populated country the industries which are most profitable are the extractive industries. The (12) of these, with the exception of some kinds of mining, is that they call (13) only a low organization of labor and small amount of capital. Hence they allow the workman to become (14) his own master, and they educate him to freedom, independence, and self (15) .At the same time, the social groups being only (16) marked off from each other, it is easy to (17) from one class of occupations, and consequently from one social grade, to another. Finally, under the same circumstances, education, skill, and superior training have but inferior value compared with what they have in (18) populated countries. The (19) lie in an under-populated country, with the (20) , unskilled, manual occupations, and not with the highest developments of science, literature, and art.
A．infers
B．defers
C．confers
D．refers

网考网参考答案：C，答错率：46%
网考网试题解析：
[解析] 形近词辨析题。confer意为“颁布，授予”，常与on连用，例如：The honor was conferred on him just after the war. 根据原句意思，拥有土地并不能授予土地的主人权力和特权，故选项[C]confers符合题意。[A]infer (from/that)意为“推论，判断为”，例如：Although she agreed with me, I inferred from her expression that she was reluctant. [B]defer (to)意为“延期，让步”，例如：Can we defer making a decision until next week 又如：I have to defer to my boss on important decision. [D]refer (to)意为“谈到，涉及，参考”，例如：The new salary scale only refers to company managers and directors. 全句可译为：拥有土地并不意味着拥有权力和特权。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>