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  3. Read the news item below about a company that runs health and fitness clubs. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C

Read the news item below about a company that runs health and fitness clubs. Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C

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问题 Read the news item below about a company that runs health and fitness clubs.
Choose the best word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D on the opposite page.
For each question(19-33), mark one letter(A, B, C or D)on your Answer Sheet.
There is an example at the beginning(0).
                        Fighting Fit
Fine Fitness, the health and fitness club operator,(0)______D______ an impressive set of results yesterday.(19)______a 38-per-cent jump in annual pre-tax profits, the company claimed that it had (20)______none of the problems(21)______last week by its rival, Top Fit. According to Samantha Collier, the chief executive, Fine Fitness(22)______strong and is on(23)______to reach its target of 100 clubs within three years, its strategy unaffected by the apparent(24)______down of the economy.
The company opened 12 new clubs in the past year,(25)______its total to 51. They have(26)______to be highly successful, with people joining in large numbers, especially in the 25-to-40 age range. Even the more(27)______clubs are still seeing sales growth, along with rising retention(28)______of more than 70 per cent. This can be seen as clear(29)______of the appeal of Fine Fitness.
Ms Collier admitted that as there were(30)______ too many companies competing with one another, there would almost certainly be(31)______in the health-and-fitness-club sector of the market. She predicted that, within a relatively short time, there might be only about three major companies still in(32)______. However, she declined to say which these were likely to be.
Profits rose by ￡6.3 million, although there was a fall in gross margins from 31 per cent to 28.6 per cent because of higher insurance premiums, extra management costs and start-up expenses for the company’s new(33)______in Spain.
选项 A、union
B、consolidation
C、alliance
D、combination
答案B
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