单选题
Tom walked into a shop. It had a sign outside. "Second-hand clothes bought and sold." He was carrying an old pair of trousers and asked the owner of the shop, "How much will you give me for these?" The man looked at them and then said. "Two dollars."
"What!" said Tom. "I had guessed they were worth at least five dollars."
"No," said the man, "they aren"t worth a cent more than two dollars."
"Well," said Tom, taking two dollars out of his pocket. "Here"s your money. These trousers were hanging outside your shop. The list price of them was six dollars and a half. But I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to find out how much they were really worth."
Then he walked out of the shop with the pair of trousers and disappeared before the shop owner could think of anything to say.
单选题
At first the owner of the shop thought that Tom ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] Tom拿着一条裤子并且问:“How much will you give me for these?”所以店主认为Tom是来卖裤子的,故答案是B。
单选题
The owner of the shop ______ for the old trousers.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 此题是细节题,可在第一自然段的末尾找到答案。
单选题
The shop owner insisted that the trousers were worth only two dollars because ______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 店主当然想便宜地把裤子买下来。
单选题
In fact, the trousers ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 从短文的倒数第二段可以了解到,裤子不是Tom的而是店主的。
单选题
From the story we know that ______ cheaper than the list price.