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 __1__. He knows what he wants, and his __2__ is to find it and buy it. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyones __3__.
For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants. In that __4__ the salesman tries to sell the customer something else - he offers the nearest to the article required. Good salesman brings out such a substitute with __5__: I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It __6__ to be the colour you mentioned. Few men have __7__ with this treatment, and the usual response is: This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be __8__ my time and yours by trying it on.
For a woman, buying clothes is always done in the __9__ way. Her shopping is not often __10__ on need. She has never fully decided what she wants, and she is only having a look round. She is always open to persuasion, willing to try __11__ any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that __12__ thinks suits her. Most women have an excellent sense of value and are always on the look-out for the unexpected __13__. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman nay easily spend an hour going from one rail to another __14__ selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently a __15__one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
EXERCISE:
1. A) detail B) advance C) hurry D) full
2. A) objective B) need C) dream D) reason
3. A) sadness B) amusement C) surprise D) satisfaction
4. A) time B) event C) case D) situation
5. A) care B) skill C) attention D) interest
6. A) happens B) is C) changes D) comes
7. A) experience B) is C) interest D) patience
8. A) losing B) wasting C) spending D) giving
9. A) same B) similar C) opposite D) clever
10. A) relied B) done C) related D) based
11. A) on B) with C) by D) people
12. A) nobody B) someone C) surprise D) everyone
13. A) deal B) bargain C) surprise D) people
14. A) before B) after C) as D) by
15. A) exhausting B) boring C) enjoyable D) graceful
Key: BADCBADBCDADBAC
英语讲义【7】不定冠词a/an的用法
英语讲义【31】代名词不出错
[名词]其它名词复数的规则变化
代词精讲(20)
和more有关的词组
代词精讲(10)
形近词汇辨析(三)
英语讲义【21】连接词及其用法
不同国家的人的单复数
副词及其基本用法
动词
英语讲义【9】动词形态不对应
倒装句的种类
英语讲义【26】beside 和besides 通用吗?
英语讲义【20】“义同形异”的常用词
代词(一)
冠词位置(一)
形近词汇辨析(一)
多个形容词修饰名词的顺序
名词的格
英语讲义【25】在句尾出现的介词
数词(二)
英语讲义【10】语态:主动与被动的关系
英语讲义【12】通过联想学英语
英语讲义【22】被动语态的动词
英语讲义【14】主动语态之形,被动语态之意
不可数名词量的表示
名词复数的不规则变化(一)
其它名词复数的规则变化
冠词位置(二)
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