The story behind the shopping cart
Characters
Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop
Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(機(jī)械師)
One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(調(diào)試) to their new i 小題1:  – a shopping cart.
Sylvan: My customers don’t like our shopping cart.
Fred:   Really? So they p 小題2: shopping with those heavy baskets?
Sylvan: (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 小題3:  none of them wants to use the cart.
Fred:   I don’t understand. We invented the cart so that people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.
Sylvan: (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!
Fred:   So why don’t they like the shopping cart?
Sylvan: Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w 小題4:  and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.
Fred:   Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.
Sylvan: Um…
Fred:   What? They don’t like the cart e 小題5: ?
Sylvan: Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!
Fred:   Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g 小題6:  up on this invention!
Sylvan: We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops.) Aha! I’ve got an idea.

Fred:   What is it?
Sylvan: I’ll hire(雇傭) some good-looking guys and girls to push the carts around and pretend they’re shopping.
Fred:   Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people using the carts and think, “Hey, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me!”
Sylvan: E 小題7: .
Fred:   Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.
Sylvan: Great idea!

小題1:invention
小題2:prefer
小題3:but
小題4:weak
小題5:either
小題6:give
小題7:Exactly

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是在購(gòu)物車剛被發(fā)明出來(lái)的時(shí)候，人們并喜歡用它，所以購(gòu)物車的發(fā)明人Fred和Sylvan就在討論怎樣才能讓人們喜歡上它。最后他們有了一個(gè)好主意。
小題1:句意：1936年的一個(gè)晚上，在美國(guó)的一個(gè)城市里，F(xiàn)red和他的朋友Sylvan正在調(diào)試他們的新發(fā)明—購(gòu)物車。invention 發(fā)名物，是一個(gè)名詞。這篇短文講述的就是購(gòu)物車的由來(lái)，所以，在那個(gè)時(shí)候，購(gòu)物車是一個(gè)新的發(fā)明物。下文It’s only just been invented這句話也可以告訴我們答案。
小題2:句意：-我的顧客不喜歡我們的購(gòu)物車。-真的嗎？他們更喜歡拿著重的購(gòu)物籃去購(gòu)物嗎？prefer 更喜歡。這里是表示購(gòu)物車與購(gòu)物籃的一個(gè)對(duì)比。
小題3:句意：我每天有很多顧客，但是很少有人愿意使用這個(gè)購(gòu)物車。根據(jù)句意可知，這里表示的是轉(zhuǎn)折的關(guān)系。故填but。
小題4:句意：年輕的男性認(rèn)為推著購(gòu)物車到處走讓他們看起來(lái)很脆弱，而且很慢；而年輕的女性則認(rèn)為購(gòu)物車不夠時(shí)尚。這里的look 是看起來(lái)的意思，后面應(yīng)跟一個(gè)形容詞，根據(jù)句意可知，年輕男性不喜歡購(gòu)物車的愿意就是他們覺(jué)得這樣會(huì)使他們看起來(lái)很脆弱，不強(qiáng)壯。
小題5:句意：-我確定老年人會(huì)喜歡它的。什么？他們也不喜歡購(gòu)物車？either 也，常用于否定句中。
小題6:句意：我們不能放棄這項(xiàng)發(fā)明。根據(jù)文意可知，他們發(fā)明的購(gòu)物車并不受人們的歡迎，但是這里Fred不愿意就這樣放棄。give up 放棄，是固定短語(yǔ)。
小題7:句意：-所以真正的顧客會(huì)看到這些吸引人的人們?cè)谑褂眠@種購(gòu)物車，然后就會(huì)想：如果對(duì)他們來(lái)說(shuō)使用購(gòu)物車很好的話，對(duì)我也會(huì)好的。-就是這樣。exactly 精確的，正確的，就是這樣。這里表示Sylvan完全同意Fred的話，認(rèn)為他說(shuō)的很對(duì)。
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