Part V
32、根据下列材料请回答 {TSE}题：The recession is taking a serious toll onAmerican retail, but e-commerce could emerge asa winner.
According to a new report by ForresterResearch, e-commerce sales (beyond travel) arelikely to (1) 11%, to $156 billion, in 2009. That (2) a slowdown from 13% growth last year and18% in 2007. The major factor (3) to the paceshift is, of course, (4) consumer confidence.
But e-commerce's slowed pace is still farbetter than the National Retail Federation'sforecasted 0.5% drop in (5) retail sales this year.
That means e-commerce is stealing marketshare from (6) retail—and fast. (7) Forrester'sestimates, in 2008 e-commerce (8) . for 5% of allretail sales. In 2012, Forrester thinks e-commercecould have an 8% share.
One recent factor is that online shoppingpromises (9) to price-sensitive consumers. "Therecession is definitely (10) more consumers to dotheir homework before they go and complete a(n) (11) ," says Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru.E-commerce is also somewhat protectedbecause online shoppers (12) to be wealthier:about half of all online shopping is done byhouseholds that earn more than $75,000 peryear, even though they're just about a third of allhouseholds with Internet (13) .
(14) not all Internet companies are set tobenefit (15) . Last month, e-commerce giant eBay (16) its first-ever quarterly revenue decline, (17) Amazon reported a sales surge of 18%.
Smaller players are particularly (18) risk. 
"There are some pretty vicious (恶意的) wars ascompanies go online to get market share," saysMulpuru. "The (19) I have is that we could goback down the spiral (螺旋) of death from 1999and 2000, when companies would under-pricethemselves (20) thinking about profitability (盈利).”
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A．arise 
B．grow
C．raise 
D．breed
33、请在（2）处填上答案。
A．causes 
B．says
C．dictates 
D．marks
34、请在（3）处填上答案。
A．attributing 
B．subjecting
C．contributing 
D．applying
35、请在（4）处填上答案。
A．declining 
B．lowering
C．improving 
D．reducing
36、请在（5）处填上答案。
A．entire 
B．intensive
C．overall 
D．decisive
37、请在（6）处填上答案。
A．traditional 
B．original
C．basic 
D．rational
38、请在（7）处填上答案。
A．To 
B．As
C．About 
D．By
39、请在（8）处填上答案。
A．stood 
B．attached
C．accounted 
D．amounted
40、请在（9）处填上答案。
A．debates 
B．bargains
C．disputes 
D．negotiations
41、请在（10）处填上答案。
A．encouraging 
B．disappointin
C．upsetting 
D．surprising