Holiday shopping is an exciting and （36) thing to do for many people. They love t

A、A four-day Holiday

B、The busiest shopping day of the year

C、A day to turn a profit for businessman

D、the beginning of Christmas shopping season

_______ special promotions, discounts and expanded hours.

A．although

B．except

C．despite

D．providing

A、department stores

B、the Internet

C、stock market

D、retailers

rt to the holiday shopping season, an occasion marked by celebrations and sales. Department stores in particular locked onto this marketing notion, hosting parades to launch the start of the first wave of Christmas advertisements, chief among them, the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade, running in New York City since 1924. The holiday shopping craze became so important to retailers that during the Great Depression, they appealed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to move Thanksgiving Day up in order to stretch out the holiday shopping season. Roosevelt obliged, moving Thanksgiving Day one week earlier, but didn t announce the change until October. As a result, Americans had two Thanksgivings Day that year—Roosevelt s, jokingly dubbed " Franksgiving," and the original. Because the switchover was handled so poorly, few observed it, and the change resulted in little economic boost.

Americans usually use motor homes ______ .

A．to travel with all the family members for holiday

B．to do some shopping with all the family members

C．to visit their grandparents at weekends

D．to drive their children to school every day

Online shopping (网上购物) has become a major force in retailing this year with more than US $1 billion in Christmas season sales, industry analysts say.

The figure for the holiday tops the total for Internet shopping in all of 1996.

Online shopping for the holiday season remained just a drop in the ocean of the estimated US $ 450 billion spent by US consumers. But the figure is growing rapidly.

International Data Corporation, a market research group, predicts the World Wide Web (万维网) population will reach almost 100 million by 1998 and that online commerce will grow to more than US $ 20 billion.

The passage is mainly about______.

A．Christmas sales.

B．retailing business.

C．Internet population.

D．online shopping.

Online shopping (网上购物) has become a major force in retailing this year with more than US $1 billion in Christmas season sales, industry analysts say.

The figure for the holiday tops the total for Internet shopping in all of 1996.

Online shopping for the holiday season remained just a drop in the ocean of the estimated US $ 450 billion spent by US consumers. But the figure is growing rapidly.

International Data Corporation, a market research group, predicts the World Wide Web (万维网) population will reach almost 100 million by 1998 and that online commerce will grow to more than US $ 20 billion.

The passage is mainly about______.

A．Christmas sales.

B．retailing business.

C．Internet population.

D．online shopping.

. Conveniently located, the Holiday Inn is within walking distance to the hot springs and the downtown shopping area. Each room has a refrigerator, coffee maker, and hair dryer. Guests will enjoy the Holiday Inn's swimming pool, as well as a free Western or Chinese breakfast every morning.

Claire Rusk wanted to ask for advice on how to______.

A．get through the economic crisis

B．plan for the Christmas shopping

C．explain the economic situation to her son

D．change her random holiday spending habits

A．Half of the online shopping is made on the phones．

B．All holiday purchases will be made online

C．It is less comfortable than crowded malls．

D．It has a big impact on shopping malls．