2015年综合类C级职称英语考试真题及答案：完形填空

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Spoilt for Choice

Some research which was recently carried out in Britain has confirmed what many ordinary shoppers have suspected for quite a long time.Having a _____（51）selection of goods to choose from is not necessarily a _____（52）to consumers.The average supermarket in Britain has around 40，000 different products on sale at any one time and if you're _____（53）of buying a car,then there are actually around 1，600 different _____（54）on the market.

In one sense,choice is a good thing because it _____（55）use to buy those products which best suit our needs.But choice can also _____（56）something of a problem.With over 400brands of shampoo on the market,how does the consumer _____（57）hold of the information necessary to choose between them?

For some people the solution is to buy only well-known brands,whilst others are happy to be _____（58）by advertising.There is evidence,_____（59）,that for some people the _____（60）of choice available to them in Britain's consumer society is actually a _____（61）of anxiety and stress.One man interviewed by the researchers admitted that he had _____（62）out to buy his girlfriend a mobile phone for her birthday,but was so _____（63）by the number of different types on offer in the shop that he _____（64）up and decided to buy her a bundle（束）of flowers _____（65）!