Share C1 Reading and Use of English Part 1 (Game 1)
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There can be no ______ that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer.
examination
question
query
proposal
Far from becoming ______ online shoppers are very demanding.
dissatisfied
competent
complacent
compassionate
Smarter consumers know which products have a good _______ and which do not.
reputation
distinction
resolution
opinion
Online shoppers now read not only the sales _______ but also reviews from previous purchasers.
blurb
bubble
message
blare
If customers are disappointed, a few _____ of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know.
clicks
clucks
prods
taps
The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are there for people to try out _______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff.
devices
tools
schemes
emblems
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is ______ turning from being primarily a bookseller to the go to shop for everything.
unreasonably
mistakenly
rapidly
secretly
Amazon is swiftly becoming a ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site.
lump
mass
chunk
block
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.
repressed
receded
exceeded
excluded
Other transformations in the retail business are ______ to follow the trend of Amazon.
bound
secured
tied
fastened
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
A study comparing the rate at which carbon dioxide and methane are being _______ now, 55 has found dramatic differences in the speed of release.
digested
emitted
exhaled
incorporated
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.
demise
detachment
demolition
dementia
Zachos warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past _______ we are reaching dangerous new levels.
comment
compliment
indicate
mark
It seems the Earth's climate passes a _______ beyond which climate change accelerates with the help of positive feedbacks - vicious circles of warming.
barricade
perimeter
verge
threshold
Zachos is a leading ______ on the episode of global warming known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum.
authority
administrator
autocrat
proprietor
