Question

　　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（接待）．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 entered 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 am 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 fiver?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused（感到有趣）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 underlined word “approach” in the second paragraph means ________.

　　A．plan for dealing with things

　　B．decision to sell things

　　C．idea of repairing things

　　D．way of doing things

　　3．The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ________.

　　A．changed his mind

　　B．accepted the offer

　　C．saw the writer’s purpose

　　D．decided to help the writer

　　4．How much did the writer pay?

　　A．￡5.

　　B．￡7.

　　C．￡20.

　　D．￡27.

　　5．From the text, we can learn that the writer was

　　A．honest

　　B．careful

　　C．smart

　　D．funny

 

Answer 1

答案：D;D;C;A;C
解析：

1．D 选项BC很容易排除，而A作者很无礼，文中并没有这样的提示。 　　2．D approach是做事情的方法，与way有相同意思，作者并不打算卖东西，B错误；而作者要修理凳子的想法并没有错，错的只是方法，C错误；而修一把椅子并不需要什么计划，A也可以排除。 　　3．C the penny dropped这句的前面店主并不知道作者的目的，而这句的下面有“I know what you want”显然是店主知道了这个目的。 　　4．A fiver意思是5英镑，“shall we say for a fiver?”说明作者需要付5英镑。 　　5．C 从文章中知道作者很聪明，故用smart。

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