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