The story behind the shopping cart
Characters
Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop
Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(机械师)
One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(调试) to their new i – a shopping cart.
Sylvan: My customers don’t like our shopping cart.
Fred: Really? So they p shopping with those heavy baskets?
Sylvan: (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 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 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 ?
Sylvan: Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!
Fred: Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g 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(雇佣) 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 .
Fred: Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.
Sylvan: Great idea!
Mrs White comes for ( ) America. She is 38.,but she looked
( ) very young. She always wears a red skirts
( )because she likes the colour very much. She teaches we
( )English. She can speak a few
( ) Chinese. She has two daughters. They study in a
( )same school .Mrs White says Chinese people are very
( )friendly that she likes working here to
( )talking with people here. Everyone like
( ) her because she is a good teacher. Mr White is also kind with
( )us.
单词拼写Tree Planting Day is in ( 三月 )every year.
The ( 价格 ) of that book is 5dollars.
Her father has just had his ( 四十 ) birthday.
To my ( 吃惊 ),he failed the maths exam.
How much are these ( 西红柿 )?
读下面的短文，根据短文的意思用括号内的所给词的正确形式填空
Jack loved ice cream. He wanted to have ice cream every day.
On his birthday, Jack wanted ice cream, but his parents_______ （give）him a pet turtle as a present instead. Jack tried to teach his turtle to play games, but it couldn’t carry a ball in its mouth. It couldn’t jump high or run very
_______ （quick）. Jack didn’t really like his turtle. He thought it was a boring pet.
One day, he _______ （take）the turtle out of its box and found it didn’t move. Jack took it to his mom. “Mom,” he said. “My turtle is not
_______ （move）. I think it’s dead.”
“Don’t be sad,” she said. “We’ll put him in a box and bury (埋) him. Then we’ll go to the store and have some ice cream to make you feel _______ （good）.”
Ice cream! Jack began to feel happy. Then his mother saw the turtle move.
“It’s all right!” she said. “Your turtle isn’t dead after all!”
“Oh,” said Jack. “Can I kill it?”
根据下面每句句意、汉语提示及英语解释，在横线上写出空白处所缺单词的正确形式，每空一词。The garbage _______ (短信) on cell phones are polluting the teens.
December is the ________(十二) month of a year.
The company _____ (提供)the young man a job, but he didn’t take it.
After exercising for a few months, she is a little (not fat)than before.
You can find _________ (without problems) Leshan on the map.
词汇运用 用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空不限一词）。（本大题共10小题，满分10分）Do you think it is better to travel ten thousand miles than (read) ten thousand books?
Nowadays, people like to use microblog and weichat (chat) with each other.
Next month, I will celebrate my ten years of (marry) with my husband.
Haze(雾霾) weather is (terrible) affecting us, especially people in North China.
Teenagers always disagree with their parents, (do) they?
— Oh, my dear! I can’t find the key to the classroom.
— Don’t worry. Perhaps it (leave) at your home.— Whose school uniform is that on the chair, yours or (my)?
Miss Gao worked as a teacher in her (twenty) and she has much experience in teaching English.
(wear) orange and you will feel wisdom while having exams.
This type of Ipad (sell) well because of its shape and size.
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