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Beauty is big business in China. The country’s cosmetics market is worth $26 billion a year, making it the third-biggest in the

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问题     Beauty is big business in China. The country’s cosmetics market is worth $26 billion a year, making it the third-biggest in the world. Euromonitor, a research firm, believes it will grow 8% each year from now to 2017.
    It would seem【C1】________then, that some of the world’s best-known brands are giving up on such an【C2】________market. This week L’Oréal of France, the world’s biggest cosmetics firm, said that it will stop selling its Garnier line of beauty products in China. This came on the【C3】________of an announcement by Revlon, an American【C4】________that  it  would  leave  the  country altogether.
    L’Oréal insists that this is not a step【C5】________from the Chinese market, of which it【C6】________an 11% share, but rather a【C7】________in strategy. It says it will henceforth【C8】________selling Chinese consumers its L’Oréal Paris and Maybelline New York lines. Revlon has done rather less well in China, which【C9】________a tiny share of its global【C10】________. It is said to have【C11】________a big fall in sales in recent months and【C12】________this on a slowing Chinese economy. A few years ago, when China’s annual GDP growth was in double digits and its consumers had【C13】________begun to fill their repressed desire for foreign luxury, the firms that sold it set themselves ambitious targets. Now China is coming to【C14】________a more normal emerging market: still with much potential for growth,【C15】________with no guarantee that every【C16】________foreign product entering it will get a piece of the action. Consumers are becoming more【C17】________, and are increasingly unwilling to pay extra money for all but the very best brands.
    At the same time costs are high. Wages for "beauty assistants" and other saleswomen are【C18】________at double-digit rates annually. Marketing in such a huge and diverse country, are【C19】________To cap it all, Chinese cosmetics firms are quickly catching up with the foreign ones.
    As the costs rise and the【C10】________slows, L’Oréal and Revlon are unlikely to be the last foreign cosmetics firms to think again about their ambitions in China.
【C12】
选项 A、blames
B、attributes
C、focuses
D、insists
答案A
解析 上文提到露华浓将从中国撤出，空格后提到“中国经济增长减缓”(a slowing Chinese economy)，这对露华浓而言是一个很好的理由，因此应填入能表示因果关系且能与on搭配的动词。blame on意为“把责任推给……”，选A项blames。B项attributes“归因于……”，可以表示原因，但不能和on连用。C项focuses与on搭配表示“关注于……”，D项insists与on搭配表示“坚持”，代入后语义并不符合本句语境，也没有办法解释露华浓退出中国的原因。
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