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 in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock(有现货的), the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.
For a man, slight 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, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response 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 does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
1.The underlined sentence “the price is a secondary consideration” in the first paragraph means when a man is shopping ______.
A.he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear
B.he buys whatever he likes without considering its value
C.he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things
D.he often buys things without giving the matter proper thought.
2.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?
A.He buys a similar thing because of the color he wants.
B.He usually does not buy anything.
C.At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.
D.So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.
3.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?
A.Men do not try clothes on in a shop while women do.
B.Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.
C.The time they take over buying clothes.
D.Men go shopping based on need, but women never.
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My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this .
One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and . All the students were working a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no of stopping. I walked down the row and found was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.
By this time the activity aroused my , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” I felt it best not to .
After another ten minutes, the students were to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoebox. Then Donna hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door. Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.
Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in . Amen!”
She turned the students and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student and said, “I Can’t,” Donna pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.
1. A.job B.project C.observation D.course
2. A.checked B.noticed C.watched D.waited
3. A.on B.with C.as D.for
4. A.scenes B.senses C.marks D.signs
5. A.nobody B.somebody C.everyone D.anyone
6. A.curiosity B.suspect C.sympathy D.worry
7. A.and B.or C.but D.so
8. A.insert B.interrupt C.talk D.request
9. A.taught B.shown C.forced D.instructed
10. A.added B.wrote C.made D.folded
11. A.cry B.pray C.dig D.play
12. A.back B.bottom C.top D.edge
13. A.drop B.raise C.fall D.lift
14. A.keep B.thank C.forgive D.honor
15. A.remembered B.punished C.removed D.replaced
16. A.silence B.heart C.peace D.memory
17. A.down B.up C.off D.around
18. A.birth B.passing C.loss D.starting
19. A.awoke B.reminded C.forgot D.apologized
20. A.simply B.hardly C.seriously D.angrily
He ______ a book about his adventures in Tibet. I hope he can find a good publisher when it is finished.
A. was writing B. wrote C. has already written D. is currently writing
Tom works in a company and gets paid by ______ hour, totally 5,000 yuan ______ month.
A. the; the B. a; the C. the; a D. a; a
No student______ go out of school for snacks during the break without the teacher’s permission.
A. shall B. must C. will D. may
---- Have you got any particular plans for the coming holiday?
---- Yes, ______ . I am going to visit some homes for the old in our city.
A. if ever B. if busy C. if anything D. if possible