Question

The story behind the shopping cart

Characters

Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop

Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(機(jī)械師)

One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(調(diào)試) to their new i? 1. – a shopping cart.

Sylvan:????????????? My customers don’t like our shopping cart.

Fred:????????????? Really? So they p? 2. shopping with those heavy baskets?

Sylvan:????????????? (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 3. none of them wants to use the cart.

Fred:????????????? I don’t understand. We invented the cart so that people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.

Sylvan:????????????? (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!

Fred:????????????? So why don’t they like the shopping cart?

Sylvan:????????????? Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w 4. and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.

Fred:????????????? Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.

Sylvan:????????????? Um…

Fred:????????????? What? They don’t like the cart e? 5.? ?

Sylvan:????????????? Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!

Fred:????????????? Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g? 6. up on this invention!

Sylvan:????????????? We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops.) Aha! I’ve got an idea.

Fred:????????????? What is it?

Sylvan:????????????? I’ll hire(雇傭) some good-looking guys and girls to push the carts around and pretend they’re shopping.

Fred:????????????? Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people using the carts and think, “Hey, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me!”

Sylvan:????????????? E 7. .

Fred:????????????? Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.

Sylvan:????????????? Great idea!

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.invention

2.prefer

3.but

4.weak

5.either

6.give

7.Exactly

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是在購(gòu)物車剛被發(fā)明出來的時(shí)候，人們并喜歡用它，所以購(gòu)物車的發(fā)明人Fred和Sylvan就在討論怎樣才能讓人們喜歡上它。最后他們有了一個(gè)好主意。

1.句意：1936年的一個(gè)晚上，在美國(guó)的一個(gè)城市里，Fred和他的朋友Sylvan正在調(diào)試他們的新發(fā)明—購(gòu)物車。invention 發(fā)名物，是一個(gè)名詞。這篇短文講述的就是購(gòu)物車的由來，所以，在那個(gè)時(shí)候，購(gòu)物車是一個(gè)新的發(fā)明物。下文It’s only just been invented這句話也可以告訴我們答案。

2.句意：-我的顧客不喜歡我們的購(gòu)物車。-真的嗎？他們更喜歡拿著重的購(gòu)物籃去購(gòu)物嗎？prefer 更喜歡。這里是表示購(gòu)物車與購(gòu)物籃的一個(gè)對(duì)比。

3.句意：我每天有很多顧客，但是很少有人愿意使用這個(gè)購(gòu)物車。根據(jù)句意可知，這里表示的是轉(zhuǎn)折的關(guān)系。故填but。

4.句意：年輕的男性認(rèn)為推著購(gòu)物車到處走讓他們看起來很脆弱，而且很慢；而年輕的女性則認(rèn)為購(gòu)物車不夠時(shí)尚。這里的look 是看起來的意思，后面應(yīng)跟一個(gè)形容詞，根據(jù)句意可知，年輕男性不喜歡購(gòu)物車的愿意就是他們覺得這樣會(huì)使他們看起來很脆弱，不強(qiáng)壯。

5.句意：-我確定老年人會(huì)喜歡它的。什么？他們也不喜歡購(gòu)物車？either 也，常用于否定句中。

6.句意：我們不能放棄這項(xiàng)發(fā)明。根據(jù)文意可知，他們發(fā)明的購(gòu)物車并不受人們的歡迎，但是這里Fred不愿意就這樣放棄。give up 放棄，是固定短語。

7.句意：-所以真正的顧客會(huì)看到這些吸引人的人們?cè)谑褂眠@種購(gòu)物車，然后就會(huì)想：如果對(duì)他們來說使用購(gòu)物車很好的話，對(duì)我也會(huì)好的。-就是這樣。exactly 精確的，正確的，就是這樣。這里表示Sylvan完全同意Fred的話，認(rèn)為他說的很對(duì)。

考點(diǎn)：任務(wù)型閱讀。