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TEST H
Shopping in Japan
Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the
Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__
them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle
up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.
The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is
cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__
the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of
being in __(7)__ to someone else.
It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has
__(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards
all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.
Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to
give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by
buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion
in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily
stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets.
The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps.
Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as
convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years
after they became __(15)__.
1.
A) lost
B) cost
C) charged
D) priced
2.
A) prefer
B) desire
C) enjoy
D) select
3.
A) written about
B) written off
C) written out
D) written up
4.
A) keen
B) enthusiastic C) exciting
D) eager
5.
A) does away with
B) does out of
C) does without
D) does out
6.
A) of
B) from
C) for
D) by
7.
A) payment
B) bill
C) debt
D) interest
8.
A) opened
B) invented
C) introduced
D) started
9.
A) followed
B) developed
C) changed
D) turned
10. A) would
B) will
C) may
D) must
11. A) in time
B) in front
C) in future
D) in advance
12. A) savings
B) sums
C) deposits
D) masses
13. A) seldom
B) slight
C) rare
D) slow
14. A) common
B) usual
C) regular
D) often
15. A) prepared
B) possible
C) ready
D) available