高二英语寒假作业 第十一天.doc

第十一天
一、美文晨读
A way to be with customers
In the summer vacation of 1997, I was fixed with a job. I worked as an assistant at Mr. Breen’s fruit shop. The fruit shop did good business. Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighbourhood, but he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr. Breen knew them all by name and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always getting me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly long-standing customers, and I suppose they must have stayed faithful to him because he had promised to sell good quality fruit. He had a way with them—I had to admit that. He called every woman “madam” for a start, even those who clearly were not, but when he said it, it did not sound like flattery. It just sounded polite in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter as well. If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few words about the weather, but if he did, he would ask about their families or make jokes, always cutting his cloth according to his customers. Whatever their bills came to, he always gave them back the few odd pence, and I am sure they thought he was very generous. But I thought he was the opposite. He never threw anything away. He was always looking for something for nothing.
二、词汇训练
1. His________(收入)allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
2. Such________(随意的)