[单项选择]A merchant sells an item at a 20 percent discount, but still makes a gross profit of 20 percent of the cost. What percent of the cost would the gross profit on the item have been if it had been sold without the discount ？（）
A. 20%
B. 40%
C. 50%
D. 60%
E. 75%

[单项选择]The company is offering a five percent discount to customers as a way ________ its online sales.
A. promoting
B. promoted
C. to promote
D. promotes

[单项选择]We will offer you a 20 percent discount if you are among the first fifteen customers of the day（）
A. 如果你是当天15位中首次来购物的顾客，我们就能给你打2折。
B. 如果你是今天首次来本店购物的第15位顾客，我们能让利20%。
C. 如果你是今日首批来订货的第15位客户，我们将给你80%回扣。
D. 如果你是当天来本店购物的前15位顾客，我们将会给你打8折。

[简答题]trade discount

[单项选择]The weekly market sells mainly fruit, vegetables and diary （　）.
A. production
B. output
C. manufacture
D. produce

[单项选择]The market sells mainly fruit, vegetables and dairy（　）.
A. produce
B. production
C. output
D. stocks

[单项选择]An exporter sells goods to a customer abroad on FOB and on CFR terms by L/C. Who is responsible for the freight charges in each（ ）
A. Beneficiary; applicant
B. Seller; buyer
C. Buyer; seller
D. Exporter; exporter

[单项选择]An investor purchases a stock and sells it ten week later and gathers the following information.

Purchase price	￥110
Dividend received	￥11
Sell price	￥121

The investor's holding period return is closest to:（）
A. 18.0%
B. 20.0%
C. 22.0%

[单项选择]The shop sells paintings by artists who work in the area.

[单项选择]Apple sells its new computer models at a high price because ______.


A. they have new features and functions
B. they are more sophisticated than other models
C. they have new accessories attached
D. it wants to accumulate funds for future research

[单项选择]His mother works at the market （　） sells vegetable and fruits.
A. where
B. in which
C. at which
D. which

[单项选择]Any salesperson who sells more than the weekly （）will receive a bonus.
A. ratio
B. quota
C. allocation
D. portion

[单项选择]The drug store at the comer of our street sells aspirins and ______ penicillin prescriptions.
A. dispenses
B. disposes
C. disperses
D. dispatches

[单项选择]The store on the corner sells （）and other items from India
A. a clothing 
B. clothing
C. clothings 
D. a clothings

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As the merchant class expanded in the eighteenth-century North American colonies, the silver- smith and the coppersmith businesses rose to serve it. Only a few silversmiths were available in New York or Boston in the late seventeenth century, but in the eighteenth century they could be found in all major colonial cities. No other colonial artisans rivaled the silversmiths’ prestige. They handled the most expensive materials and possessed direct connections to prosperous colonies merchants. Their products, primarily silver plates and bowls, reflected their exalted status and testified to their customers’ prominence.
Silver stood as one of the surest ways to store wealth at a time before neighborhood banks existed. Unlike the silver coins from which they were made, silver articles were readily identifiable. Of- ten formed to individual specifications, they always carried the silversmith’s distinctive markings and consequently could be traced and retrieved.
A. unusual.
B. prominence.
C. high.
D. superior.