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Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（購物手推車）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地?cái)y帶） groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的） customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
小題1:The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ______.
（No more than 3 words）
小題2:What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （No more than 10 words）
小題3:Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （No more than 10 words）
小題4:Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （No more than 10 words）
小題5:What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. （No more than 20 words）

小題1:shopping carts
小題2:It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.
小題3:Because few customers used his carts.
小題4: Because he wanted to promote his shopping carts.
小題5:He was a smart businessman. He invented the shopping cart and made it accepted by customers.
Or: He was smart but he shouldn’t have used tricks to attract customers.

小題1:詞義猜測題。由上句----a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（購物手推車）可以得出談的是.購物手推車。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解表達(dá)。由二段的Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地?cái)y帶） groceries和第三段可知他做購物手推車的目的。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解表達(dá)。由第五段可知。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)推理表達(dá)題。由第七段關(guān)鍵詞---persuade people to give them a try.可知。
小題5:主旨大意表達(dá)題。通讀全文把握大意，本文主要介紹Goldman和他的購物手推車。
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