[单项选择]In America retail banking is still a local business. Around 95% of the country’s deposittakers are "community" banks, and more than 90% have assets of less than $1 billion. Even Bank of America, which comes closest to having a national network, has branches in only 29 of the 50 states. Nevertheless, banking is much less local than it used to be. Advances in technology have made it far easier to offer banking services regionally or nationally. And deregulation has swept away restrictions that once prevented banks from extending their branch networks across state boundaries (even, in some states, within them). Thanks mainly to a wave of mergers, but also to a spate of bank failures in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of banks in America has fallen by half in the past 20 years.
Big banks have some obvious advantages over small ones. They can raise money more cheaply than smaller banks, notably in the financial markets, and can therefore offer keener lending rates. Their ass
A. The small frying pan can be useful when cooking bigger fish.
B. The small area may be helpful when something important comes into it.
C. The unimportant things will lose when mighty ones come into play.
D. The small banks can get along even when big ones compete with them.

[单项选择]In America retail banking is still a local business. Around 95% of the country’s deposittakers are "community" banks, and more than 90% have assets of less than $1 billion. Even Bank of America, which comes closest to having a national network, has branches in only 29 of the 50 states. Nevertheless, banking is much less local than it used to be. Advances in technology have made it far easier to offer banking services regionally or nationally. And deregulation has swept away restrictions that once prevented banks from extending their branch networks across state boundaries (even, in some states, within them). Thanks mainly to a wave of mergers, but also to a spate of bank failures in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of banks in America has fallen by half in the past 20 years.
Big banks have some obvious advantages over small ones. They can raise money more cheaply than smaller banks, notably in the financial markets, and can therefore offer keener lending rates. Their ass
A. about 95% of the American people’s savings accounts are held in local banks
B. around 95% of the American banks are in local communities
C. about 95% of the American people deposit their money in local banks
D. around 95% of the American people’s savings are deposited in local banks

[单项选择]Retail sales volume in local urban and rural areas rose 57.8% and 46.8%______last year.
A. individually
B. respectively
C. correspondingly
D. accordingly

[填空题]If your potential clients are all local, you still must develop and maintain a Website.

[单项选择]Attacking an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a consumer watchdog group Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asserting that many online search engines are concealing the impact special fees have on search results by Internet users. Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, asked the FTC to investigate whether eight of the Web’s largest search engines are violating federal laws against deceptive advertising.
The group said that the search engines are abandoning objective formulas, to determine the order of their listed results and selling the top spots to the highest bidders without making adequate disclosures to Web surfers. The complaint touches a hot-button issue affecting tens of millions of people who submit search queries each day. With more than 2 billion pages and more than 14 billion hyperlinks on the Web, search requests rank as the second most popular online activity after E-mail.
The eight
A. cash in on their important role as Web guides
B. boost their avenue
C. reverse a series of losses
D. have their sites visited by the internet users more