单选题 You will have no difficulty in making contact with the agent. As you enter his office, you will be greeted immediately and politely asked what you are looking for. The Estate Agent"s negotiator (房地产推销员)—as he is called—will probably check that you really know your financial position. No harm in that, but you can always tell him that you have confirmed the position with the XYZ Building Society. He will accept that.
He will show you the details of a whole range of properties; many of them are not really what you are looking for at all. That does not matter. Far better turn them down than risk missing the right one.
The printed details he will give you are called "particulars". Over the years, a whole language has grown up, solely for use in Agent"s particulars. It is flowery, ornate(华丽的)and, providing you read it carefully and discount the adjectives, it can be very accurate and helpful.
Since the passing of the Trades Description Act, any trader trying to sell something has had to be very careful as to what they say about it. Estate Agents have, by now, become very competent at going as far as they dare. For instance, it is quite acceptable to say "delightfully situated". That is an expression of his option. You may not agree, but he might like the idea of living next to the gasworks. If, on the other hand, he says that the house has five bedrooms when, in fact, it has only two, that is a misstatement of fact and is an offence. This has made Estate Agents and others for that matter rather more careful.
Basically, all that you need to know about a house is: How many bedrooms it has; an indication of their size; whether the house has a garage; whether there is a garden and whether it is at the back or the front of the house; whether it is semi-detached or terraced (联排的).

单选题 The Estate Agent"s negotiator will ______.

单选题 The author believes ______.

单选题 The adjectives in Agent"s particulars are ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。由文章第三段最后一句“It is flowery, ornate(华丽的)and, providing you read it carefully and discount the adjectives, it can be very accurate and helpful.”可知，房地产经销商的语言很华丽，只有不理会这些形容词，它们才能更精确更有帮助，所以D项正确。

单选题 The Trades Description Act applies to ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 事实细节题。由文章第四段的第一句“Since the passing of the Trades Description Act，any trader trying to sell something has had to be very careful as to what they say about it.”可知，《商品说明法》颁布后，所有商人都得尽力做到对商品的描述实事求是。故the Trades Description Act适用于any trader。

单选题 The phrase "going as far as they dare" (Para 4.) probably means ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 推理判断题。第四段说“Estate Agents have，by now，become very competent at going as far as they dare.(房地产经销商很擅长夸大其词，而且是胆大包天)”，再结合后面的“he says that the house has five bedrooms when，in fact，it has only two，that is a misstatement of fact and is an offence. (他说有5个卧室，实际上只有2个，这种虚假言论让人很所愤)”，可以判断房地产经销商经常说谎，故本题选C。