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