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I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it

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问题     I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one’s own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.
    Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigor is still remarkable.
    Our local grocer’s shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queueing up anonymously at a supermarket. And the proprietor knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.
    His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch, hour to take a piece of cheese to an old-age pensioner who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing. The more affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to hint at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer a red-faced figure, instantly obtains it for them.
    The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce.
    Most of the village shopkeepers I know, at any rate, are decidedly individualist in their ways. For exampie, our shoemaker is a formidable figure: a thick-set, irritable man whom children treat with marked respect, knowing that an ill-judged word can provoke an angry eruption at any time. He stares with contempt at the pairs of cheap, mass-produced shoes taken to him for repair: has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he, a craftsman, should have to waste his skills upon such trash? But we all know he will in fact do excellent work upon them. And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury.
The local grocer’s shop is expanding even though
选项 A、town shops are better at promotion.
B、town shops are larger and more convenient.
C、town shops enjoy price advantages.
D、people get extra service in town shops.
答案C
解析 [解析] 事实细节题。第三段段首提到，本地小店的生意虽然面临附近镇子里超市的竞争，但是还是在扩展。第四段首句又提到，尽管他们的价格比镇子里的超市要高点…。由此可见，镇子里的超市与他们相比，具有价格优势。[C]是对原文的同义转述。[A]项说的“善于促销”在原文中未提及。[B]项里的convenient与原文中提到的“女人们不愿在超市排队”相悖。 [D]是讲述本地小店具有的优势，与题干构不成转折关系。本题答案为[C]。
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