单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that a good salesman is one______.

A、 who can talk customers into buying the things they do not really want
B、 who can deal with difficult customers
C、 who always has in stock what the customers want
D、 who has patience and good manners

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】在第二段，作者指出：“…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 bluntly；he does so with skill and polish…”，由此可以判断good salesman能设法让顾客买下他们本来不需要的东西，所以应选[A]。