The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn’t
mind if you call her a girl. That’s because Markita Andrews has got more than
eight thousand dollars selling Girl Scout cookies since she was seven years
old.
Going door-to-door after school, the terribly shy
Markita changed herself into the cookie-selling dynamo(高手).
It starts with great wish.
For Markita and her mother, whose husband left them
when Markita was eight years old, their dream was to travel the world. “I’ll
work hard to make enough money to send you to college,” her mother said one
day. “When you leave college, you’ll make enough money to take you and me
around the world. Okay?”
So at the age of 13 when Markita read in her Girl
Scout magazine that the Scout(童子军)who sold the most
cookies would win a free trip for two around the world, she decided to sell all
the Girl Scout cookies she could—more Girl Scout cookies than anyone in the
world, ever.
Wish, however, alone is not enough. To make her dream
come true, Markita knew she needed a plan.
“When you are doing business, wear your Girl Scout
clothes when you go up to people in their building, ” her aunt told her.
“Always smile, whether they buy something or not and always be nice.”
Lots of other Scouts may have wanted that trip around
the world, but only Markita went off in her own uniform each day after school,
ready to ask—and keep asking—people to help in her dream.
Markita sold 3,526 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that
year and won her trip around the world. Since then, she has sold more than
42,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
Markita is no cleverer than thousands of other people,
with dreams of their own. The difference is that many people fail before they
even begin. They fear(恐惧)that they will be refused. This fear leads
many of us to refuse ourselves and prevents us from getting where we have set
off for long before anyone else ever has the chance—no matter what we are
selling.
“It takes courage(勇气)to ask for
what you want,” she said. “Courage is not that you don’t have fear. It means
doing what it takes although you have a fear of it”.
1.From the passage we learn that ________.
A.a good
planning is the most important in the job of selling
B.Markita took
the free trip around the world herself
C.Markita has a
full-time selling job now
D.to do
something successfully, we should do what is needed
2.Markita ________.
A.started to
sell Girl Scout cookies when she was 13 years old
B.has only one
parent
C.whose parents
are rich, went to college
D.sold cookies
in different shops
3.Which of the following is the best title for the
passage?
A.The Greatest
Saleswoman in the World.
B.A Successful
Girl in Selling.
C.The Secret of
Selling.
D.Girl Scout
Cookies.
4.The main reason for Markita’s success is that ________.
A.she asks for
what she wants before she is refused
B.she isn’t afraid to be refused
C.her aunt has
told her how to sell things
D.she has a
good wish