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One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue when remembered it was necessary to buy a
pair of socks. I __
1__ the first sock shop that __
2__ my eye, and a boy clerk, not more than
seventeen, came forward. "I wish to buy a pair of socks." His eyes __
3__. " Do you know that you
have come into the finest place in the world to buy socks?" I had not been aware of that, as my
entrance had been __
4__.
"Hold on, lad, I am going to buy only one pair!" "I know that, but I want you to see how
marvelously __
5__ these are." There was on his face an expression of serious and holy joy, as if he
were revealing to me the __
6__ of his religion. I looked at him in __
7__. " My friend, " said I, "if you
can keep up this zeal and excitement day after day, in ten years you will __
8__ every sock in the
United States."
My amazement at his __
9__ and joy in salesmanship will be easily understood. In many shops the
customer has to wait for someone to
10 him. And when finally some clerk does
11 you, you are
made to feel as if you were
12 him. He shows no interest either in you or in the goods he is
13 to
sell.
14 possibly every clerk began his career with hope and
15 . The daily work was too much
and dull for him; gradually his only pleasures were found
16 of working hours. He became a
17 ,
not inspired salesman. After being mechanical, he became incompetent, then sour. That was the last
18 . His usefulness was over.
I have observed this melancholy (可悲的)
19 in the lives of so many men in so many occupations
that I have come to the
20 that the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically.
( )1. A. rushed into ( )2. A. hit ( )3. A. opened ( )4. A. accidental ( )5. A. various ( )6. A. mysteries ( )7. A. amazement ( )8. A. occupy ( )9. A. affection ( )10. A. wait upon ( )11. A. observe ( )12. A. asking ( )13. A. paid ( )14. A. And ( )15. A. sadness ( )16. A. outside ( )17. A. mechanical ( )18. A. procedure ( )19. A. improvement ( )20. A. faith |
B. turned into B. caught B. glared B. deliberate B. strange B. opinion B. interest B. sell B. prejudice B. care about B. notice B. inviting B. ordered B. However B. enthusiasm B. beyond B. strong B. approach B. decrease B. conclusion |
C. stole into C. fixed C. brightened C. considerate C. long C. idea C. puzzle C. own C. success C. concern about C. view C. interrupting C. motivated C. Therefore C. doubt C. inside C. courageous C. stage C. increase C. summary |
D. changed into D. focused D. widened D. special D. beautiful D. thought D. admiration D. attract D. pride D. take care D. see D. punishing D. permitted D. Yet D. consideration D. dull D. demanding D. pace D. decline D. intention |