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These are not easy times for booksellers, borders, a big American one. ditched its boss in January and has closed stores, but is
These are not easy times for booksellers, borders, a big American one. ditched its boss in January and has closed stores, but is
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2016-10-18
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These are not easy times for booksellers, borders, a big American one. ditched its boss in January and has closed stores, but is still at risk of【C1】______, some analysts say. The British chain of the same name, which it once owned, failed last year. Barnes & Noble, the world’s biggest bookseller, appointed a new boss last month to help it【C2】______the triple threat of the recession, increased competition and e-books.
The struggles of booksellers can be explained in part by a surge in competition. More than half of book sales in America take place not in bookshops but at big【C3】______such as Wal-Mart and Target, which compete to peddle(散播)bestsellers at ever steeper discounts. Online retailers, too, are wreaking havoc.
Booksellers are labouring to raise their【C4】______online and win back the customers they have lost. Barnes & Noble’s online sales rose by 32% to $ 210m in the quarter ending in January, compared with a year earlier. It has started selling its own e-reader, called the "Nook" , and digital books to go with it.
Will bookshops disappear completely, as music shops seem to be doing? Most are【C5】______their hopes on giving people more reasons to come inside. " Consumers will need some entity to help them make sense of the morass," says William Lynch, the new boss of Barnes & Noble, which plans to put a renewed【C6】______on service, including advice on e-books. Many shops have started to offer【C7】______internet access to keep customers there longer and to enable them to download e-books. Other survival strategies include hosting book clubs or other community groups and selling a wider【C8】______of goods, such as wrapping paper, jewellery , cards and toys.
Independent bookshops face a【C9】______serious threat, because they are unable to match bigger rivals’ prices. Many are branching out by offering new services, such as creative-writing classes. BookPeople, a bookshop in Austin, Texas, runs a literary summer camp for around 450 children. Steve Bercu, the shop’s co-owner, says that independent booksellers can still thrive,【C10】______they " reinvent(重新使用)themselves".
A)affordable B)bankruptcy C)confront D)consequently
E)emphasis F)free G)particularly H)pinning
I)profile J)provided K)retailers L)shopper
M)variety N)supposed O)matching
【C1】
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答案
B
解析
名词辨析题。空格在at risk of后面,因此应填名词或动名同。上文提到美国大型书店博德斯在一月解雇了其总裁并关闭了部分店面,且空格前出现了but转折,由此可推测这家店有破产的危险,所以该空应该选bankruptcy。
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