[单项选择]Thousands of people turned out into the streets to （）against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.
A. contradict
B. reform
C. counter
D. protest

[单项选择]Thousands of people turned out into the streets to_______against the local authorities’’ decision to build a highway across the field.
A. contradict
B. reform
C. counter
D. protest

[单项选择] Every year thousands of people are arrested and taken to court for shop-lifting. In Britain alone, about HK$3,000,000’’s worth of goods are stolen from shops every week. This amounts to something like HK$150 million a year, and represents about 4 per cent of the shops’’ total stock. As a result of this "shrinkage" as the shops call it, the honest public has to pay higher prices. Shop-lifters can be divided into three main categories: the professionals, the deliberate amateur, and the people who just can’’t help themselves. The professionals do not pose much of a problem for the store detectives, who, assisted by closed circuit television, two-way mirrors and various other technological devices, can usually cope with them. The professionals tend to go for high value goods in parts of the shops where security measures are tightest. And, in any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting. The same applies to the deliberate amateur w
A. There is a "shrinkage" in market values.
B. Many goods are not available.
C. Goods in many shops lack variety.
D. There are many cases of shop-lifting.