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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, 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 he can 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 lockout 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 passage mainly talks about ________.

A. differences between men and women shoppers

B. A man goes shopping because he needs something

C. How women go about buying clothes.

D. Women are better at shopping than men

2.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 buy things without giving the matter proper thought.

3.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.

4.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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：文章分析了男士與女士在購物時候的一些不同之處。男士購物之前 通常會想好要買什么，找到想要的東西后會立即買下，而不在意價錢。女士則大不相同，女士在購物時，會花大量的時間來一件件的試，在價格合理的情況下，會買那件最適合自己的。

1.根據第一段“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.”可知，文章主要介紹的是男人和女人在購物方面的不同之處。故選A。

2.根據“He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration.”可知，男士在買東西前已經有了明確的目標，他的目的就是去買回來需要的東西，價格是第二位的，也就是說，男士不在乎價格的高低。故選C。

3.根據第二段最后一句“This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”可知，當沒有想要的商品時，男士是不會買替代品的。故選B。

4.根據第一段“often is completed in less than five minutes,”和最后一段“Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another”可知，男士找到想要的物品后會立即買走，而女士在購物時，會花大量的時間在試衣服上，只是為了找到一件最適合自己的衣服。故選C。

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