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[A] Crisis seems far [B] The firm is at risk [C] More rivals join in [D] Natural foods are unreal [E] Stop buyin
[A] Crisis seems far [B] The firm is at risk [C] More rivals join in [D] Natural foods are unreal [E] Stop buyin
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2022-12-09
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问题
[A] Crisis seems far
[B] The firm is at risk
[C] More rivals join in
[D] Natural foods are unreal
[E] Stop buying organic foods
[F] The recall makes things worse
[G] Traditional foods face challenge
The colourful chalkboards and baskets of fruit that greet customers at the entrances of Whole Foods Market’s shops paint a rosy picture. Yet shares in the American seller of organic and natural food have fallen by more than 40% since hitting a peak last October, in a period when stock markets have been strong.
【R1】________
It is not that the retailer is in immediate crisis: its latest quarterly figures, on July 30th, showed sales and profits both up a bit. And it is not that people are going off the idea of paying more for food produced without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or additives: the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements reckoned that the industry’s worldwide revenues were a record of 63 billion in 2012; and Techsci Research, a market-research firm, predicted that the American market for such foods—the world’s largest—would grow by 14% by 2018.
【R2】________
The problem is that at Whole Foods, shoppers have been paying way over the cost of regular products, and its success in getting them to do so has now attracted a lot of competitors, from rival organics chains like Sprouts and Trader Joe’s to mass-market retailers like Walmart and Costco. As a result, the price premium for organic produce is crashing down. On a recent shopping trip, a pound of organic apples cost 2.99 at Whole Foods but just 1.99 at Sprouts and even less at Costco.
【R3】________
The firm has been trimming costs to keep its margins up, but the slump in its share price reflects investors’ expectation that this cannot continue, that profits will suffer and that Whole Foods’ dominance of the market is coming to an end.
【R4】________
That the company has had to recall a number of products—in late July it and other grocers recalled plums and peaches suspected of contamination with Listeria bacteria—has made it harder to maintain an air of superiority over its competitors. Organic foods’ claim to superiority is questionable anyway. Both Britain’s Food Standards Agency and the Annals of Internal Medicine, a journal, concluded after reviewing the extensive studies on the issue that there is no substantial difference in the nutritiousness of organics and non-organics. In some respects organics may be bad for the environment, because growing them uses land less efficiently than non-organics.
【R5】________
As for "natural" foods, there is no official definition of this, in America at least; so the label, which Whole Foods also applies to many products, is close to meaningless. Alan McHugh, a botanist at the University of California, Riverside, argues that the whole industry is "99% marketing and public perception," reeling people in through a fabricated concept of a time when food, and life in general, was simple and wholesome.
If true, the trick has worked nicely for Whole Foods. But its success has attracted so many imitators that it is losing its uniqueness. Even recent speculation about a takeover bid has failed to lift its shares. It may insist its food is sustainable. But it seems its prices are not.
【R1】
选项
答案
A
解析
本段首句说It is not that the retailer is in immediate crisis。该句大意是:这并不是说零售商的危机迫在眉睫。也就是说零售商目前并未面临危机,且本段话相对积极正向,sales and profits both up, revenues,record,grow等词都体现了这一点。而选项中唯有A项相对正向,其中crisis与far都为负面词汇,二者加起来为正向表达。且首句的not…in immediate crisis与A项的crisis seems far表意一致。故本题答案为A项。
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