Quiz – What sort of shopper are you?

1. If you are given money for your birthday do you:

(a) Go out as soon as you can to browse around the shops and find something to buy?

(b) Put it towards something you are saving up for?

(c) Enjoy thinking about what you could do with it before deciding?

 

2. If you had to do the weekend shopping for the family would you:

(a) Make a list of everything wanted and keep to it?

(b) Make a list, but probably change your mind when you got to the shops?

(c) Buy things as you went along and hope the money would work out?

 

3. When you can choose where to shop, do you prefer:

(a) The supermarket?

(b) The street market?

(c) The local general shop?

(d) The High Street or main shopping centre?

 

4. If you are going to buy something that must last a long time – say a tape recorder or a sewing machine, do you:

(a) Go to a local shop and choose from what they have in stock?

(b) Spend some time finding out about tape recorders or sewing machines so that you know what to look for and what questions to ask before you buy?

(c) Choose a shop which specializes in what you want and ask the advice of an experienced sales assistant?

 

5. If you are going to buy a suit or dress do you:

(a) Fall in love with something in a shop window and buy it without trying it on?

(b) Choose several garments and try them all one before deciding?

(c) Checkup on what you already have, decide what you need most and what colour would fit in best and go to as many shops as possible to find what you are looking for?

 

6. If you want something practical to wear for everyday – say a shirt or a blouse, do you:

(a) Buy what looks right without checking whether it will wash well, is drip dry, or will need ironing or dry cleaning?

(b) Look for a label on the garment giving this information and if there isn't one, check with the sales assistant?

(c) Decide in advance that you need a blouse or shirt that drip dries and only look at that kind when shopping?

 

7. When buying a gadget or piece of equipment do you:

(a) Find an advertisement that describes exactly what you want and ask for that particular product when you go shopping?

(b) Choose a good shop, discuss with the sales assistant what you want and what it will be used for and take his advice into consideration before buying?

(c) Read carefully any guarantees and keep the receipt?

 

8. If you buy something that proves unsatisfactory – a gadget that does not work or a garment that falls to pieces, do you:

(a) Think it's just too bad and do nothing more about it?

(b) Go back to the shop, complain about being cheated and demand your money back?

(c) Either write to: or ask to see, the manager and state what has happened as politely as possible?

 

Text 7.

FASHION

Fashion is an entirely unnecessary and yet delightful detail of human life. No one could contend that a person who did not follow the fashion was lacking in any great mental or moral quality; yet to be in the fashion has given joy in age after age, not only to the women who are thus up-to-date in the costume, but to the men who behold them.

As a rule, men’s attitude towards women’s fashion is one of amused tolerance. They pretend that they are unable to detect the nice distinctions between the latest model from Paris and a dress that is hopelessly out of date. But they are in reality just as eager to conform to the popular idea of what is and what is not worn.

But men’s fashions change slowly, and men, unlike women, like to be the last to leave an old fashion rather than the first to embrace a new. They have no desire either, that their womenfolk should be in the very front rank of fashion. It would make them embarrassed to be seen in public with a woman who was wearing something which caused every eye to be turned upon her. But they like their wives to be dressed as most other women are dressed.

Fashion is an arbitrary mistress to whom most women are slaves, but though her mandates are often unreasonable and not seldom absurd, she is followed willingly, for the reward she offers is that sense of adventure and variety which is the spice of life.

 

Ex. 1. Find English equivalents to the following:

            Совершенно бесполезная и все же восхитительная деталь никто не смог бы утверждать из поколения в поколение; созерцать; не в состоянии различить; подчиниться мнению; первыми броситься в объятия новому; их женщины; быть в первых рядах моды; приводить в смущение; притягивать к себе каждый взгляд; капризная владычица; награда; ощущение приключения и разнообразия; изюминка жизни.

 

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