8. In many nations there are two financial extremes, from penury to great wealth. "penury" means ().
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- The economist Adam Smith argued powerfully for Laissez-faire in his great work The Wealth of Nations (1776) and described it as “the invisible hand”.
- Comparative literature actually means ( ). A: comparison of literatures only between two national countries. B: comparing of literatures only between two national passages. C: communications of different nations through the means of literature.
- The two protagonists, Gatsby in The Great Gatsby and Kurtz in Heart of Darknes, share the following features except（ ）. A: they are heroic B: they both died tragically in the end C: both of them are alone and isolated from the world D: they both have a lust for wealth
- 1. The two theories _________ from each other in many ways.
- In English, the name of Perseus means gold and wealth. ( )