[B]①Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow. ②Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limit success, and expansion abroad. ③But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard:the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.
[F] ①For example, wholesale food and drink sales come to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000-more than 40 percent of retail sales. ②Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.
【分析】 [F]選項中首句中的wholesale food and drink和[B]選項中最后一句話的the wholesale food and drink形成原詞復現。
【2012年】
①Television is a one-way tap flowing into our homes. ②The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on. ③ (45)
[G]The networked computer offers the first chance in 50 years to reverse the flow, to encourage thoughtful downloading and, even more importantly, meaningful uploading.