Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called "footwear for yuppies". They content that Reebok shoes

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问题     Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called
"footwear for yuppies". They content that Reebok shoes appeal to diverse (1)______
market segments, though now that the company offers basketball and chil- (2)______
dren’s shoes for the under-18 set and walking shoes for older customers
not interested in aerobics and running. The executives also point out that (3)______
through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots, dress and casual
shoes, and high-performance athletic footwear to their product lines, all of
them should attract new and varied groups of customers. (4)______
    Still, despite of its emphasis on new markets, Reebok plans few changes (5)______
in the upmarket retailing network that helped pushing sales to $1 billion an- (6)______
nually, ahead of all sports shoe marketers. (7)______
    Reebok shoes, which price from $27 to $85, will continue to be sold (8)______
only in better specialization, sporting goods, and department stores, in ac- (9)______
cordance to the company’s view that consumers judge the quality of the (10)______
brand by the quality of its distribution.
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答案content — contend

解析 content和contend只一个字母之差但意思却截然不同:content表“内容,容量”或“使满足”,而contend表“争论,在争论中据理力争”,近似于argue,如:The defensecontended that the evidence was inadmissible.对这样的形近义却相远的成对词一定要注意加以辨析。
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