[单项选择]______ Jennifer has some experience in the retail industry, the manager asked her to run the fundraising stall.
A. Once
B. Since
C. Plus
D. Whereas

[单项选择]Shopping malls customarily experience some slack periods for sales, especially so in summer.
A. successive
B. lasting
C. prosperous
D. dull

[单项选择]An 'experience economy' has grown in Britain because A. most people have enough things. B. people like new ideas. C. buying things has become too expensive.

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I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January., I Had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died "full of years", as the Bible would say; both yielded to the nor- mal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condo- fence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.
At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, "If only 1 had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take
A. They lived out a natural life.
B. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.
C. They weren't accustomed to the change in weather.
D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

[单项选择]Jennifer has never really ______ her son's death. It's very hard to accept the fact that she'll never have a child.
A. come to terms with
B. come up against
C. come out with
D. come down to

[单项选择]There has been a great increase in retail sales, __________

[单项选择]He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which ______the sound quality.
A. magnifies
B. strengthens
C. enhances
D. enlarges

[单项选择]Some one has said that a man's history begins about one hundred and fifty years before his birth, or words ______.
A. in any case
B. to that effect
C. in a sense
D. to the contrary