[单项选择]The shoe retailer's market share has increased dramatically ______ the beginning of the financial year.
A. while
B. after
C. since
D. along

[单项选择]One shoe has a thicker sole than that of the other.

[单项选择]Cisco Systems' share price has risen considerably ______.

[单项选择]3-G takes ______ market share. In the last quarter, 2O% of the sales were 3-G phones.
A. considered
B. considering
C. considerable
D. considerate

[单项选择]______ market research has shown that most Americans prefer environmentally-friendly products.
A. Nasty
B. Neat
C. Preliminary
D. Prior

[单项选择]The current general slackness of the market has prevented us from ______ new orders with you.


A. placing
B. putting
C. arranging
D. providing

[单项选择]The labor market has been tight over the past two years, so we can expect some request for salary ______ from our senior employees.
A. raises
B. rises
C. arises
D. arouses

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Text 3
Every product on the market has a variety of costs built into it before it is ever put up for sale to a customer. There are costs of production, transportation, storage, advertising, and more. Each of these costs must bring in some profit at each stage: truckers must profit from transporting products, or they would not be in business. Thus, costs also include several layers of profits. The selling price of a product must take all of these costs( and built - in profits) into consideration. The selling price itself consists of a markup over the total of all costs, and it is normally based on a percentage of the total cost.
The markup may be quite high 90 percent of cost or it may be low. Grocery items in a supermarket usually have a low markup, while mink cost have a very high one. High markups, however, do not in themselves guarantee big profits. Profits come from turnover. If an item has a 50 percent markup and does not sell, there is no profit. But
A. ￥80,000
B. ￥75,000
C. ￥78,000
D. ￥79,995