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Falling demand for "pop-up" shops has caused a sharp rise in the number of unoccupied retail units, a new survey shows.

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问题         Falling demand for "pop-up" shops has caused a sharp rise in the number of unoccupied retail units, a new survey shows.
        Retail vacancy rates have risen above 10% for the first time since April 2015, according to a quarterly research report published on Monday by the British Retail Consortium and research group Springboard.
        The rise to 10.1% from 9.6% in April 2016, is being partly blamed on start-up retail businesses taking short term leases, but then failing to convert them into longer agreements.
        Diane Wehrle, a director at Springboard, said, "Between October and January vacancies went down, partly on the back of more pop-up shops. Since then, temporary lets have not become permanent lets. The key thing is to see if pop-ups start increasing again coming into Christmas."
        Wehrle added that because of a surge in popularity of pop-up shops in the run-up to Christmas 2015, 2016 was the first year where vacancy figures had been affected by the closure of some of that type of unit.
        Last year telecoms company EE predicted that almost a third of new businesses launched in the UK between 2015 and 2017 would start as a pop-up, which tend to take six month leases on shops to test out a new business concept, or as a marketing stunt for established brands.
        The phenomenon was promoted by TV retail consultant Mary Portas and the then-communities minister Eric Pickles as a way to regenerate high streets in the aftermath of the 2008 recession.
        Earlier this month, the supermarket chain Tesco opened a pop-up wine bar in London’s Soho district, serving only Tesco’s finest wine range for two weeks.
        Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, added, "After a long run of shop vacancies being below 10%, seeing them rise over that threshold once again will be a bitter disappointment to many."
Which of the following months witnesses the lowest retail vacancy rates?
选项 A、February.
B、May.
C、April.
D、November.
答案D
解析 推断题。题干：下列哪个月份的零售空置率最低?原文第四段中Between October and January vacancies went down(在10月至1月之间，空置率降低)，并且下一段中because of a surge in popularity of pop-up shops in the run-up to Christmas 2015，2016 was the first year where vacancy figures had been affected by the closure of some of that type of unit.(由于快闪商店在2015年圣诞节前夕受欢迎程度激增，从2016年开始，空置率受到部分此类门店关闭的影响)，所以结合上述两点，在10月份和1月份之间，又在圣诞节前夕，四个选项中，应当选择D，November(11月份)最恰当。
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