单选题
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 may 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.