There can be no ______ that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer.
question
query
examination
proposal
15
Far from becoming ______ online shoppers are very demanding.
compassionate
competent
dissatisfied
complacent
25
Smarter consumers know which products have a good _______ and which do not.
reputation
resolution
opinion
distinction
20
Online shoppers now read not only the sales _______ but also reviews from previous purchasers.
blurb
bubble
message
blare
20
If customers are disappointed, a few _____ of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know.
clicks
clucks
taps
prods
10
The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are there for people to try out _______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff.
tools
schemes
devices
emblems
15
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is ______ turning from being primarily a bookseller to the go to shop for everything.
secretly
rapidly
mistakenly
unreasonably
15
Amazon is swiftly becoming a ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site.
lump
block
chunk
mass
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.
receded
exceeded
repressed
excluded
25
Other transformations in the retail business are ______ to follow the trend of Amazon.
fastened
tied
bound
secured
20
Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a ______ episode of global warming.
prearranged
premier
previous
fundamental
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.
incorporated
digested
exhaled
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
detachment
demise
dementia
25
Zachos warned that studies of global warming events in the geological past _______ we are reaching dangerous new levels.
indicate
comment
mark
compliment
15
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
verge
barricade
20
Zachos is a leading ______ on the episode of global warming known as the palaeocene-eocene thermal maximum.
