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 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?” 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 20 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.  “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 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 write
【小題3】How much did the writer pay?
A．＄5B．＄7 C．＄20D．＄27
【小題4】From the text, we can learn that the writer was _______.
A．honestB．careful
C．smartD．Funny


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題4】A
【小題5】C

解析試題分析：本文敘述了作者發(fā)現(xiàn)椅子壞了，于是請人修理椅子時所發(fā)生的一些事情。作者在四次碰壁后，馬上調(diào)整行為方式，最終達(dá)到了自己的目的，說明他很聰明。
【小題1】推理判斷題。可用排除法，根據(jù)文意B、C很容易被排除，而A“作者很無禮”，文中并沒有這樣的提示，故選D。
【小題2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)“the penny dropped. "前面店主所說的“You must be crazy, ”店主認(rèn)為作者給他27磅買自己的椅子是不可理喻的，但是很快他又說“I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair”，表明他明白了作者的目的是希望他能幫他修理椅子。"the penny dropped"意為“終于聽明白了，目的達(dá)到了”。故選C。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。Fiver 的意思是“五英鎊鈔票”，文章倒數(shù)第二句說明作者需付五英鎊的勞務(wù)費(fèi)。故選A。
【小題4】主旨?xì)w納題�？v觀全文，作者在四次碰壁后，馬上調(diào)整行為方式，最終達(dá)到了自己的目的，說明他很聰明。故選C。
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