首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、He wants to move into another room. B、He has too much stuff. C、His filing cabinet is too old to be used. D、He couldn’t do anyt
A、He wants to move into another room. B、He has too much stuff. C、His filing cabinet is too old to be used. D、He couldn’t do anyt
admin
2021-08-20
69
问题
W: What are you doing?
M: I’m ordering some filing cabinets out of a catalog.
W: What do you need them for?
M: There’s so much stuff piling up in my dormitory room. If I don’t do something soon, I won’t be able to move in there.
W: Do you usually order from a catalog?
M: Sometimes. Why?
W: Oh, it’s just in the history class today that we were talking about how the catalog sales business first got started in the US. A Chicago retailer, Montgomery Ward started it in the late 1800s. It was really popular among farmers. It was difficult for them to make it from the big city stores so they ordered from catalogs.
M: Was Ward the only one in the business?
W: At first. But another person named Richard Sears started his own catalog after he heard how much money Ward was making.
M: What made them so popular?
W: Farmers trusted Ward and Sears for one thing. They delivered the products the farmers paid for and even refunded the price of things the farmers weren’t satisfied with. The catalogs became so popular that some country school teachers even used them as textbooks.
M: Textbooks?
W: Yeah. Students practice spelling the names and adding up the prices of things in the catalogs.
M: Was everybody thrilled about them?
W: That’s doubtful. They drove some small stores out of business. Sears and Ward sold stuff in such large quantities. They were able to undercut the prices at some small family-owned stores.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. Why does the man order some filing cabinets?
2. Why did farmers like to buy things from catalogs?
3. How did some teachers make use of catalogs?
4. What is the influence of catalogs on small stores?
选项
A、He wants to move into another room.
B、He has too much stuff.
C、His filing cabinet is too old to be used.
D、He couldn’t do anything without a filing cabinet.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/zuD7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、TheycompletetheirlanguageandculturetraininginGermany.B、Theywillgothroughatwo-yearoccupationaltrainingprogram.
A、Tocosignforaloanatthebank.B、Toraisetheinterestratesofloan.C、Tostopcontactingthefamilymember.D、Totalkit
A、Tocosignforaloanatthebank.B、Toraisetheinterestratesofloan.C、Tostopcontactingthefamilymember.D、Totalkit
A、Genderstereotypespersistathighlevelofeducation.B、Morethanthree-fifthsofEnglishentrantsarefemale.C、Women’spart
Volcanoes—Earth-shatteringNewsA)Volcanoesaretheultimateearth-movingmachinery.Aviolenteruptioncanblowthetopfewkil
BonAppetiteA)Wealllovethefoodwegrowupon,butwealsoseekadventureinthefoodwehavenevertasted.Ahugelypopular
A、Thebuildingwiththelogshape.B、Thetraditionallogcabin.C、Theseniorhomeswithlogs.D、Theblockingbeamsandwalls.B
It’swellestablishedthatsmokingcigarettes,especiallylargequantitiesofthem,isbadforyourhealth.Butanewstudyshow
A、Theycan’ttrainmanymedicalcareexperts.B、Medicalworkersareattractedtoricherplaces.C、Theydon’thavefavorablepoli
A、Throughamailinglistofhisclubmember.B、WhenhewastravelinginGermany.C、InadiscussiongroupontheInternet.D、When
随机试题
制定《中华人民共和国中医药条例》的核心目的是( )
设z=f(xy,x2),其中f(x,y)有连续偏导数,求
鸡住白细胞虫病的传播过程需要()为传播媒介
犬的正常体温范围是()。
利用溶出原理达到缓(控)释作用的方法是()。
A.思B.怒C.悲D.恐E.喜在五志的五行归类中属于“木”的情志是
关于手车式柜的检查项目的说法中,正确的是( )。
投资者在购买封闭式基金时,在基金价格之外要支付()。
“结构简单、权责关系明确、内部协调容易、管理效率比较高”,具有以上特点的组织结构类型是()。
在每一个Access数据库中,可以有多个表、查询、窗体、报表、页、宏和模块。
最新回复
(
0
)