[单项选择]Market research shows that few consumers actually （） prices before selecting their groceries in the store.
A. renew
B. submit
C. compare
D. collect

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Market research shows that few consumers actually（）prices before selecting their groceries in the store.

 

A. renew
B. submit
C. compare
D. collect

[单项选择]In the next few years the sportswear market is expected to
A. keep expanding.
B. remain the same.
C. start shrinking.

[填空题]labour-market tightness and, in a few of regions, rift tightness appears to be

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The Market Investigation

The market investigation is indispensable to sales promotion. They are as closely related as the lips and teeth, so to speak. What you produce is for sale on the market. It would be impossible to succeed in selling a product without first investigating the market.
In the international market, goods on sale coming from countries and suppliers are always facing keen competition. Under such circumstances, they will try everything possible to familiarize themselves with the market conditions. In making investigations, we ought to get information about what similar items the competitors are offering on the market, what prices they are quoting (报价), what features their products have, who are their regular customers, etc.Then, how can we obtain such information There are many channels that we can make use of in doing this sort of work. The commercial counselor’s offices of our embassies stationed abroad can he
A. get enough information concerned
B. advertise his products
C. produce high quality goods
D. none of the above

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The market mechanism might also select the wrong choice about HOW to produce. Consider the message that unregulated markets communicate to producers. In an unregulated market, (31) price would be charged for using air or waterways, since (32) is owned by any individual. Producers, (33) would regard the use of air and waterways as a "free" good. Under such circumstances it would be a lot cheaper for a factory to dump its waste into nearby waterways than to dispose of it more carefully. It would also be (34) for power plants to let waste gases and soot go up in smoke than to install environmental safeguards. The resulting pollutants are an externality—a cost imposed (35) innocent third parties. Consumers would be worse off as the quality of the air and water deteriorated.
Profit-driven producers would seldom worry about externalities in a completely unregulated

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Market research
 

Market research has become more and more important in recent years. In some organisations, in fact, managers will not initiate any activity without market research to back. them up.
The first thing to be said about market research is that it is not an (21) to management decision-making. No form of market research, no matter how deep, complicated and detailed, can ever be seen as a substitute for creative decision-making by professional managers (22) its very best, all it can do is (23) some doubt and clarify the nature of the problem. It may even be seen as a tool which can improve the (24) of decisions but it is not in itself a decision-making mechanism.
Market research, in (25) with a number of other approaches in marketing, suffers from the frequent complaint that it is not really accurate. Market research results can never be completely accurate because
A. shows
B. produces
C. results
D. appears