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The first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to
The first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to
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The first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to dry. Maybe she hoped this little amenity would slow the growing inclination of women to stretch each haircut to last four months.
Suddenly everything is on sale. The upside to the economic downturn is the immense incentive it gives retailers to treat you like a queen for a day. But now the customer rules, just for showing up. Finger the scarf, then start to walk away, and its price floats silkily downward. When the mechanic calls to tell you that brakes and a timing belt and other services will run close to $ 2,000,
it’s time to break out the newly perfected art of the considered pause.
You really don’t even have to say anything pitiful before he’ll offer to knock a few hundred dollars off.
Restaurants are also caught in a fit of ardent hospitality, especially around Wall Street. New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni characterizes the new restaurant demeanor as "extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation."
Now everyone is hoping to restart the economy. But human nature is funny that way. In dangerous times, we clench and squint at the deal that looks too good to miss, suspecting that it must be too good to be true. Store owners will tell you horror stories about shoppers with attitude, who walk in demanding discounts and flaunt their new power at every turn. These store owners wince as they sense bad habit forming: Will people expect discounts forever? Will their hard-won brand luster be forever cheapened, especially for items whose allure depends on their being ridiculously priced?
There will surely come a day when things go back to "normal"; retail sales even inched up in January after sinking for the previous six months. Bargain-hunting can be addictive regardless of the state of the markets, and haggling is a low-risk, high-value contact sport. Trauma digs deep into habit, like my 85-year-old mother still calling her canned-goods cabinet "the bomb shelter." The children of the First Depression were saving string and preaching sacrifice long after the skies cleared. They came to be called the "greatest generation." As we learn to be decent stewards of our resources, who knows what might come of it? We have lived in an age of wanton waste, and there is value in practicing conservation that goes far beyond our own bottom line.
Which of the following could be the best title of this passage?
选项
A、During Economic Downturn, Everything is on Sale.
B、The Art of Bargaining.
C、Promising Shoppers.
D、In a Recession, the Consumer is Queen.
答案
D
解析
作者首先列举在理发店、家电市场和餐馆的一些经历,指出商家在提供服务时变得越来越热情主动了,进而阐述了这一变化的原因主要是经济危机。而这些变化刺激了顾客的购买欲,随之而来的是奢侈消费,必而造成浪费。所以D项“在经济衰退中,消费者是女王”符合文意。A项“在经济低迷时期,一切都在促销”、B项“砍价的艺术”和C项“有前途的购物者”都只是文中部分内容的概况,并不是本文主旨,故选D。
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