20.A.kept B. saw
C. recognized D. pretended
(16)
Over years of study, Paco has discovered that people act in predictable (可预测)
ways when they are shopping. Successful shops adapt(使适应)
themselves to these habits. For example, people tend to 1 to the right when they enter a building.
That is why many shops have their entrances on the 2 . Also, people speed up when they
enter shops and need space to 3 down. That is why there is often a(n) 4 space just inside a shop door giving
people a 5 to make themselves at home.
Men and women shop in
different ways. Men like to decide what they want
6
they shop. Then they go straight out and
get it without buying anything else. Seventy-five per cent of men who try
clothes on buy them 7 away. Only 35 per cent of women do the 8 . Men also 9 not to talk to shop assistant.
Women enjoy the shopping 10 more. They will shop first and decide
what they want later, trying different things out 11 the way. Women also like to
12 their time. A shopping trip that takes a
man and a woman one hour will take two women three hours. Paco
suggests that shops provide nurseries
for
13 , with video games
and a TV tuned to a sports channel. The women can then shop in 14 while the men play.
According to Paco, these differences can 15
back to the hunter-gatherer
period of human history. Men were hunters. They focused(集中)
on stalking 16 and then killing them. Women 17
wild vegetables and
fruits. They needed to be 18 ,
to talk to each other and to cover as much ground as possible.
Every modern city has its
shopping area. And the shops are 19 of modern, hi-tech goods. But the people
shopping are 20 in the same way that their ancestors did
forty thousand years ago.
