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
proposal
query
Far from becoming ______ online shoppers are very demanding.
complacent
competent
dissatisfied
compassionate
Smarter consumers know which products have a good _______ and which do not.
reputation
resolution
distinction
opinion
Online shoppers now read not only the sales _______ but also reviews from previous purchasers.
message
blurb
bubble
blare
If customers are disappointed, a few _____ of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know.
taps
clicks
prods
clucks
The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are there for people to try out _______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff.
devices
emblems
schemes
tools
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is ______ turning from being primarily a bookseller to the go to shop for everything.
mistakenly
unreasonably
secretly
rapidly
Amazon is swiftly becoming a ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site.
chunk
block
mass
lump
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.
receded
exceeded
repressed
excluded
Other transformations in the retail business are ______ to follow the trend of Amazon.
fastened
secured
tied
bound
Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a ______ episode of global warming.
previous
prearranged
premier
fundamental
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
digested
incorporated
emitted
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
demolition
dementia
detachment
Zachos warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past _______ we are reaching dangerous new levels.
compliment
mark
indicate
comment
It seems the Earth's climate passes a _______ beyond which climate change accelerates with the help of positive feedbacks - vicious circles of warming.
perimeter
verge
barricade
threshold
Zachos is a leading ______ on the episode of global warming known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum.
autocrat
authority
proprietor
administrator
