Lesson39 Unit10 At the tailor’s shop

Answer the following questions: 1.What did the customer want to buy in the shop 2.Why did the shop owner /manager ask Tod to show the customer the cheapest clothes? 3.Why did the man ask the assistant to wait a few days for the money? 4.What did Tod really mean by saying “I know that gentlemen like you carry only large notes”? 5.What made the manager feel excited? 6.When and why did the manager and Tod change their attitudes( 态度 )to the customer? 7.What else did they want to do for the man? 8.What can you learn from the story?

Fill in the blanks according to the story: One day a customer went into a tailor’s shop to buy a new——.All he had was a——.His wearings were so worn-out that the shop assistant looked——upon him and chose him the——.In his mind,that was the best— —for such a poor man. When the customer——the million-pound note,the shop assistant felt very——and didn’t know what to do.Just then the manager went up to him and asked—— Seeing the note,he got so——that he asked the customer to do him a——to get those cheap clothes——and—— much better ones.Then he——the gentleman and picked out nice——for making a suit——this man’s own measure. The man said that he couldn’t——the clothes unless they would wait or——the note.The manager promised to wait——his life.Finally,he told the assistant to——down the man’s address. The gentleman said it was not necessary because he would drop——and leave his new address——he found another hotel.

A report on wine shops

Questions in lesson39: 1.What did the lady want to buy? 2.How many shops did she go to? 3.Why did she go to so many shops? 4.What’s the woman’s job? 5.What kind of meal was she planning to cook? 6.What kind of wine would be suitable for the meal? 7.Did she receive good service in all shops ?And in some of the shops?

Fill in the blanks: Once a woman journalist in London wanted to do some r——about the s——offered by wine shops.She put on a raincoat and did not do up the button at the bottom.Then she went to six different wine shops.She said that she wanted to buy two bottles of good,o—— wine for a special meal she was preparing.She found that different people acted d——. At one shop,the assistant laughed a——her because he j—that as a woman the journalist knew nothing about Wine.In another shop she was t——very well and advised to buy some ordinary,but very p——wine.The assistant in the sixth shop did not take her s——.He asked her to buy very expensive wine,which was not good for d——with a meal.What was w——,he kept b——her change.A week l——,the journalist’s complete report appeared in the newspaper.

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