There can be no ______ that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer.
question
proposal
query
examination
15
Far from becoming ______ online shoppers are very demanding.
competent
complacent
dissatisfied
compassionate
25
Smarter consumers know which products have a good _______ and which do not.
opinion
reputation
resolution
distinction
20
Online shoppers now read not only the sales _______ but also reviews from previous purchasers.
bubble
blurb
blare
message
20
If customers are disappointed, a few _____ of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know.
clucks
prods
taps
clicks
10
The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are there for people to try out _______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff.
emblems
tools
schemes
devices
15
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is ______ turning from being primarily a bookseller to the go to shop for everything.
mistakenly
secretly
rapidly
unreasonably
15
Amazon is swiftly becoming a ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site.
block
mass
lump
chunk
20
During America's last Thanksgiving weekend, Amazon's sales of consumer electronics in the United States ________ its book sales for the first time in its history.
excluded
repressed
exceeded
receded
25
Other transformations in the retail business are ______ to follow the trend of Amazon.
secured
tied
bound
fastened
20
Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a ______ episode of global warming.
premier
fundamental
prearranged
previous
15
A study comparing the rate at which carbon dioxide and methane are being _______ now, 55 has found dramatic differences in the speed of release.
exhaled
incorporated
digested
emitted
20
James Zachos, a professor in Santa Cruz California, said the speed of the present buildup of greenhouse gases is far greater than during the global warming after the ______ of the dinosaurs.
demolition
demise
dementia
detachment
25
Zachos warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past _______ we are reaching dangerous new levels.
comment
compliment
indicate
mark
15
It seems the Earth's climate passes a _______ beyond which climate change accelerates with the help of positive feedbacks - vicious circles of warming.
verge
threshold
barricade
perimeter
20
Zachos is a leading ______ on the episode of global warming known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum.
