[单项选择]Compared with traditional customers, the emerging cyber consumers ____________.
A. are more difficult to satisfy
B. have less knowledge about business
C. have more problems with prices
D. are less willing to buy products and services

[单项选择]Compared with a traditional telephone, an e-mail phone probably ______.
A. has a colored screen
B. has a larger size
C. has similar key arrangement
D. does not have a receiver

[单项选择]Why can businessmen make money in the emerging elder market
A. Retirees are more generous in spending money.
B. They can employ more gerontologists.
C. The elderly possess an enormous purchasing power.
D. There are more elderly people working than before.

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Text 2
Emerging from the 1950 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.
This development - and its strong implications for US politics and economy in years ahead - has enthroned the South as America’ s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation’ s head counting.
Altogether, the US population rose in the 1970s by 23.2 million people - numerically the third largest growth ever recorded in a single decade. Even so, that gain adds up to only 11.4 percent, lowest in American annual records except for the Depression years.
Americans have been migrating south and west in larger number since World War Ⅱ, and the pattern still prevails.
Three sun belt states--Florida, Texas and California--together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier. Among large cities,
A. people in favor of the trend of democracy
B. advocates of migration between states
C. scientists engaged in the study of population
D. conservatives clinging to old patterns of life

[单项选择]Responding to emerging diseases such as SARS is ______ to responding to a bioterrorist attack in which they resemble a sudden appearance of an agent spreading in a population.
A. identical
B. vertical
C. parallel
D. specific

[单项选择]The newly-emerging company is determined to take part in the international______for that company insolvency.
A. bid
B. application
C. exploitation
D. bet

[单项选择]Compared to common electrical conductors, superconductors
A. have little or no electrical resistance.
B. can be used for a long time.
C. are not energy-efficient.
D. can be made easily.

[单项选择]Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly

[单项选择]Modem linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly ______.


A. prescriptive.
B. descriptive.
C. subjective.
D. analytic.

[单项选择]Traditional media dominate web journalism because ______.


A. news and advertising are their only business
B. they invest more money in news
C. web companies dare not compete with them
D. they enjoy privileges in journalism