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Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn't think there would be any
difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique (古董) shops near my home. So I left
home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception. I
was quite wrong. The man wouldn't even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, and the third and the fourth- so I
decided that my approach must be wrong. I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the
chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, "Would you like to buy a chair?" "Twenty pounds," I
said. "OK,"he said. "l'll give you twenty pounds." "It's got a slightly broken leg," I said. "Yes, I saw that.
It's nothing."
Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. "What will you do with it?" I
asked. "Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done. " "I'll buy it," I said. "What do you mean?
You've just sold it to me," he said. "Yes, I know but I've changed my mind. I am sorry. I'll give you
twenty-seven pounds for it." " You must be crazy," he said. Then, suddenly the penny dropped. "I
know what you want. You want me to repair your chair."
"You're right," I said. "And what would you have done if I had walked in and said, 'Would you
mend this chair for me?'" "I wouldn't have agreed to do it," he said. "We don't do repairs, not enough
money in it and too much trouble. But l'll mend this for you. Shall we say for a fiver?" He was a very
nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.
1. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer___.
A. was rather impolite
B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
2. The underlined word "approach" in the second paragraph means___.
A. plan for dealing with things
B. decision to sell tings
C. idea of repairing things
D. way of doing things
3. The expression "the penny dropped" in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper____.
A. changed his mind
B. accepted the offer
C. saw the writer's purpose
D. decided to help the writer
4. How much did the writer pay?
A. 5.
B. 7.
c. 20.
D. 27.
5. From the text, we can learn that the writer was___.
A. honest
B. careful
C. smart
D. funny
