There are many shops in Singapore where customers still bargain, although prices are clearly shown on the goods. There is nothing out of the ordinary in haggling; some shopkeepers expect you to and will be surprised if you accept their prices immediately. We know that the prices in some stores are a bit higher than those in Change Alley, but we also realize that to keep a store like Robinson’s is by no means cheap. Besides, in such places we shop in air-conditioned (空调) comfort. For all these, we pay a little extra.
It is not always true to say that things in Change Alley cost less. I once bought a Czechoslovakian glass butter-dish from Robinson’s for a little under two dollars. I then went on to Change Alley and just by chance saw an article of the same shape, design and size, in one of the shops. I then asked about its price, and was surprised when the man demanded more than four dollars for it. "How much can you offer" he shouted at me. I o
A. accepting the prices immediately
B. fixing the right cost for some goods
C. arguing about the price of something
D. paying extra for comfortable shopping
There are many streets in London containing shops dealing in book-selling. (36) the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very. (37) of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes (38) to be found, from the celebrated one which (39) to be "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the (40) dusty places which seem to have been (41) over from Dickens’s time. Some of these shops (42) , or will obtain (获得), any kind of book, but many of (43) feature (特征,特写) secondhand books, art books, foreign books or books on philosophy (哲学), politics or any other of the (44) subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only (45) hooks about ballet(芭蕾舞)! (46) it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to (47) books, Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the (48) cheap secondhand books, the collector must try some (49) places, to Far
A. lonely
B. rare
C. isolated
D. separated
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