问题补充：
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 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. I was quite wrong. The man wouldn 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 went into 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 twenty pounds. ”“It ‘s got a slightly broken leg,” I said. “Yes, I saw that, its nothing.”
Everything was going according to 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. ”“Ill buy it,” I said. “What do you mean？ You’ve just sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. Im sorry, Ill give you twenty -seven pounds for it. ”“ Your 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 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 by the whole thing.
【小题1】We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer .A．was rather impoliteB．was warmly receivedC．asked the shopkeeper to repair his chairD．asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair【小题2】The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper .A．changed his mindB．accepted the offerC．decided to help the writerD．saw the writer’s purpose【小题3】How much did the writer pay?A．￡ 5.B．￡ 7.C．￡ 20.D．￡ 27.【小题4】From the text, we can learn that the writer was A．honestB．carefulC．funnyD．smartC
答案：
(答案→)C
解析：1.根据第一段最后一句“I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception. I was quite wrong. The man wouldn even look at my chair.”可知作者没有受到好的接待。排除B,又根据最后那人甚至没看我的椅子一眼可知作者受到了冷待。故可知作者肯定要求店主修理一直故选C
2.通过店主掉了便士后所说的话可知他已明白作者的意图，故选D
3.作者之前将受损椅子20 便士卖出，又将修好的27便士买进，故可知其中差价7便士即为修理费用故选B
4.作者在前两个点要求店主修理修理椅子没有成功后，急中生智想出卖掉一直再将修好后的椅子买进可知作者很聪明 ，D选项是聪明伶俐的意思，故选D
