Some time ago, I discovered that one of my chairs had
a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended
, as there are a whole lot of antique (古董) shops near
my home . So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into
the first shop expecting a friendly reception. I was quite wrong. The man
wouldn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just
the same, and the third and, the fourth-so I decided that my approach must be
wrong.
I went into the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I
placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, “Would you like to
buy a chair?” He looked it over carefully and said, “Yes, not a bad chair. How
much do you want for it, sir?” “Twenty pounds,” I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll
give you twenty pounds.” “It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said. “Yes I saw
that, it’s nothing.”
Everything was going according to plan and I was
getting excited. “What will you do with it?” I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to
sell once the repair is done.” “I’ll buy it,” I said. “What do you mean? You’ve
just sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I’m
sorry. I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it.” “You must be crazy,” he said.
Then, suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair
your chair.” “You’re right,” I said. “And what would you have done if I had
walked in and said, ‘Would you mend this chair for me’?” “I wouldn’t have
agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too
much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for a five?” He was a
very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.
1.We can learn from the text that in the first shop
the writer .
A．was rather
impolite B．was warmly
received
C．asked the
shopkeeper to buy his chair D．asked the shopkeeper to
repair his chair
2.The expression “the penny dropped” in the last
paragraph means the shopkeeper .
A．changed his
mind B．saw the
writer’s purpose
C．accepted the
offer D．decided to
help the writer
3.How much did the writer pay?
A．£5 B．£7 C．£20 D．£27
4.From the text, we can learn that the writer was .
A．smart B．careful C．honest D．funny
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