阅读理解 Almost every body in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart . They will , in a lifetime , push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even t 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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     Almost every body in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart (购物手车) .
They  will , in  a  lifetime , push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even
think to ask-who it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At
that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带)
groceries  around  in baskets they had to carry.
     One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would
make shopping much easier for his customers , and would help to attract more business.On June 4,1937 ,
Goldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of the day
as customers began arriving.He couldn't wait to seethem using his invention.But Goldmanwas disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look , but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while.
Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts. " Don't you think this arm is strong
enough to carry a shopping basket?" one shopper replied.But Goldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try.
     To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were
shopping! Seeing this, the real customers  gradually  began  copying the phony(假冒的) customers. As
Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come-those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets , customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before. Today's shopping carts are five
times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason Americans today spend more than
five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before the coming of the shopping
cart.

1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph refer to
_____________. ( No more than 3 words. )

2. What was the purpose of Goldman's invention? ( No more than 10 words. )
___________________________________________________________________

3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( No more than 10 words. )
___________________________________________________________________

4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( No more than 10 words. )
__________________________________________________________________

5. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( No more than 20 words)
_____________________________________________________________

1 . shopping carts
2. It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.
3. Because few customers used his carts
4. Because he wanted to promote his shopping carts.
5. He was a smart businessman. He invented the shopping cart and made it accepted by customers.
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