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（接待）. I was quite wrong. The man wouldn't oven 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 went into 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?” He looked it over carefully and said,“ Yes, not a bad chair. How much do you want for it, sir?” “Twenty pounds,”I said. “OK, ”he said, “I’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 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'm sorry, I'll give you twenty -seven pounds for it. ”“ Your 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 I’ll mend this for you, shall we say for a fiver?”He was a very nice man and was greatly amused（感到有趣）by the whole thing.
　　小題1:We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ________.
A．was rather impolite
B．was warmly received
C．a(chǎn)sked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D．a(chǎn)sked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
　　小題2:The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ________.
A．changed his mindB．a(chǎn)ccepted the offer
C．saw the writer’s purposeD．decided to help the writer
　　小題3:How much did the writer pay?
A．￡ 5.B．￡ 7.C．￡ 20.D．￡ 27.
　　小題4:From the text, we can learn that the writer was ________
A．hanestB．carefulC．smartD．funny

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:C

小題1:在第一家商店，店家連看都不看一眼，可見他想請人修椅子被拒絕了，后來在第二、三、四家也被拒絕。
小題2:從對方的回答“我知道你想干啥，你想讓我?guī)湍阈抟巫印笨芍挠嬛\被識破。
小題3:“我”主動提出給七英鎊作為維修費，而“他”很好（a very nice man），提出“fiver”，可見它的意思是五英鎊。
小題4:　從文中不難看出“我”是什么樣的人：隨機應變，靈活。
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