Shopping for Clothes
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 everyone’s __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(n) __15__one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
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
參考答案：B、A、D、C、B 、A、D、B、C、D 、A、D、B、A、C
答案解析：
1. “in advance”，固定搭配，意思為“預先，提前”
2. A objective 目的，B need 需要，C dream夢想，D reason原因，空白處後面緊跟著不定式形式to find it and buy it，在這裡不定式表示目的，所以答案選擇A更加合適。
3. “to one’s sadness”令某人傷心，to one’s amusement 令人覺得有趣，to one’s surprise 令某人驚訝，to one’s satisfaction 令某人滿意。空白處前面的句子指出，如果店裡有貨的話，五分鐘之內就能完成交易，無需閒聊，很顯然這樣的買賣是令人滿意的，答案選擇D.
4. 空白處前面的that指代的是前面的那句話，而這句話指的是一種情況，所以此處填寫case更加合適，in that case意思為在那種情況下，所以本題答案為C.
5. 好的售貨員需要技巧，所以此處選擇B. care關心，attention注意力，interest興趣。
6. it happens to do（ It happens that），固定搭配，意思為碰巧，恰巧，所以答案選擇A.
7. A experience 經驗，C interest 興趣，D patience 耐心，根據現實情況考慮，對於顧客來說，對於售貨員的推銷介紹有的時候會沒有耐心，直接購買此產品，這也是售貨員的推銷技巧，所以本題答案選擇D.
8. Waste one’s time固定搭配，意思為“浪費某人的時間”，所以答案選擇B.
9. 我們知道男人和女人買衣服是不同的，作者在第二段講述了男人買衣服的特點，在第三段要對女性購買物品進行介紹，兩者顯然是不一樣的描述，所以本題選擇C opposite way，意思為不同的方式。
10.這句話的意思是說女性買東西是基於有所需要，be based on 基於…。答案選擇D.
on固定搭配，意思為“試穿，試戴，試用”，答案選擇A.
12.女性在買東西的時候都希望自己買的東西別人要認為很適合自己，所以此處選擇D everyone 每個人，A nobody沒人B someone 某人C surprise吃驚，驚訝。
13.女性在買東西的時候喜歡討價還價，所以此處選擇B bargain。
14.女性在試穿自己喜歡的衣服之前，要進行衣服的'挑選，所以答案選擇A before，在…之前。
15.空白處前面說買衣服的過程tiresome很煩人，但是後面緊接著使用了but作為轉折，所以but後面的詞一定是和tiresome意義相反的詞，答案選擇C enjoyable 快樂的，而D項的graceful意思為優雅的，與本題要表達的意思不符。