题型：完形填空 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
湖南省师范大学附属中学2018-2019学年高二上学期英语期末考试试卷
In a used furniture business, unlike new, you cannot order stock from a catalogue. People call in, and you have to go out and make an offer. “You can't 1 what you don't have,” my father would say.
When I was aged thirteen, my father 2 his store manager, a one－armed guy who could do more with his one arm than many will do with two. With his3 gone, my father came to me. “Will you come in while I go out to 4 the day's calls 5 I find the right person？” he asked. The store has tens of thousands of 6. “People like to bargain,” he told me. “So I don't 7 prices. You just have to know a 8.”
He took me around and said, “A quarter－horse motor you can sell for four dollars. For a refrigerator, depending on the9, you can sell for thirty－five dollars to sixty dollars. However, if it has a freezer all the way across, sell it for eighty dollars; 10 excellent condition, maybe one hundred dollars. Dishes come in with a houseful of furniture, and I don't even figure them in when I give a price. You can sell them for a nickel to a quarter. Something really nice.”
Every day after 11, I would pedal(骑自行车) down to the store. Soon after, I was writing up a sales slip(纸条) for an attractive plate when my father walked in. I had asked a dollar and the guy did not hesitate. I was very 12. My father glanced down at what I was doing, 13 the customer and said, “You sure got a14 today. My employee gave you the price and that's the price.” Afterward, I asked my father, “What was that all15？”
It turned out that it was a(n) 16 plate, worth a few hundred dollars. I was shocked. Here I was 17 to help my father in the business and instead I was losing money for him.
He said, “I could have stopped the sales if I'd wanted to. You were just writing up the slip and hadn't yet taken the money. 18, by civil law, you're 19 age. But, a man stands by his word and the word of his agent.” It 20 my father a small amount of money, but I learned a lifelong lesson in integrity(正直).
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