单选题
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 advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone"s satisfaction.
For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop doesn"t have what he wants. In that case 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 impolitely; he does so with skill : "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned. " Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on. "
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she
is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the
saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lock-out for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
单选题 According to the passage, when a man is buying clothes, ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 由文章第一段第四句话“He knows what he,wants,and.his objeetive is to find it and buy it: the price is a secondary consideration.”可知,男士在购物时一旦找到自己想要的东西,就会买下来,一般很少考虑价格问题。故选C。
单选题 What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes? ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由文章第三段第五句“She is always open to persuasion;indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her,even by what companions tell her.”和第七句“Uppermost in her mind is the though of finding something that everyone thinks suits her.”可知,女士在购物时总是广纳荐言,因为她希望买到一件所有人都认为适合她的衣服,她会听取每个人的意见。故选A。
单选题 What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由文章第二段最后一句话中的“This is the right color and may be the right size,but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”可知,男士在买不到自己想要的东西时,他会拒绝售货员提供的一切建议,宁愿不买,也不浪费时间去试穿不是自己最初想要的衣服。故选B。
单选题 Many jokes make fun of women shoppers by saying that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由第三段第八句“Contlrary to a lot of jokes,most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes.”可知,多数女士都能判断所买衣服的价值。所以,如果你开玩笑说她买的衣服是劣质的且浪费钱的,那就是在嘲弄她。故选A。
单选题 What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 通读全文可知,男女在选购衣物上是绝对不同的,而最大的不同之处在于他们买衣服所用的时间:由第一段最后一句可知,男士一般看中衣服之后,会在5分钟之内完成交易;而由最后一段倒数第二句可知,女士则会很轻易地花1个小时去挑选衣服,然后再试穿。故选D。