Salesman: Good morning. Planning to buy a new car today? Customer: ______. Salesman: What
A.I'm just looking around
B.I'm just looking everywhere
C.I'm just looking here and there
D.I'm just looking all the cars
A.I'm just looking around
B.I'm just looking everywhere
C.I'm just looking here and there
D.I'm just looking all the cars
Passage Three
Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something.
His purpose is settled and decided. He knows what he wants and he just finds it and buys it, but cares little about the price. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it, the salesman quickly takes it out, and the business of trying it on follows at once. If all is well, the deal(买卖) can be and is often completed in less than five minutes, with hard any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.
For a man, small problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman tries to sell the customer something else—he offers the nearest he can to the thing asked for. He would say, "I know this jacket is not the style. you want, Sir, but would you like to try it on for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience (耐心 ) with this treatment, and the usual answer is, "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."
Now how docs a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect (方面) she does so quite differently. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind about what she wants, and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to what the salesman tells her, even to what her friends tell her. She will try on any number of things. What is most important in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Besides, most women have an excellent sense of value when they boy clothes. The), are always ready for the unexpected bargain (便宜货). Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one counter to another before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It takes time, but surely it is enjoyable to women shoppers. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
44. When a man is buying clothes, ______.
A. he buys cheap things and does not care about the quality
B. he chooses things that others recommend
C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
D. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too expensive
One salesman in late middle age once expressed his insecurity (不安全感) by scolding me of trying to steal one of his customers (雇客). Nothing could have been further from the truth, but he demanded that I go to the stockroom (货仓) with him to settle the matter. He was very small and thin, but to my surprise he started dancing about among the carpets and closets working his arms wildly and calling on me to "put them up". I couldn't put anything up--I was too busy rolling on a four-foot six-inch spring mattress (弹簧垫子), helpless with laughter. Finally he saw the joke too, and we went off to the members' store for a conciliatory(和解) cup of tea. Several days later, I finally left the store. Thank God!
The furniture department was run by ______.
A.the author's parents
B.the author's relatives
C.some member of a big family
D.the local government
A.admit
B.reveal
C.demonstrate
D.indicate
A.Charles Drouet B.Hurstwood
C.Stephen Crane
D.Frank Norris
Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents.Cheese was another four cents.Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks'sticking to their routine.Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch.People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime.The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened.They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines.He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers'fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants.The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu.The equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.
Today McDonald's is really a household name.Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers.In 1976, McDonald's had over $ 1 billion in total sales.Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.
26.This passage mainly talks abort().
A.the development of fast food services
B.how McDonald's became a billion-dollar business
C.the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald
D.Ray Kroc's business talent
27.Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except().
A.a drive-in
B.a cinema
C.a theater
D.a barbecue restaurant
28.We may infer from this passage that ().
A.Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc
B.The location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in
C.Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants
D.Ray Kroc was a good businessman
29.The passage suggests that().
A.creativity is an important element of business success
B.Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers
C.Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc
D.California is the best place to go into business
30.As used in the second sentence of the third paragraph, the word “unique” means ().
A.special
B.attractive
C.financial
D.peculiar
A.in a good condition
B.in good condition
C.on a good condition
D.on good condition