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书面表达。

阅读下面的文字,用英语写一篇100-120词的短文.(说明文)

    近来,某书店生意不景气.假若你是店员,请你给店主写份报告,提出自己的建议,以吸引更多的年轻人来店购买书刊.

                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                               

答案

     To attract young people to our bookstore, in the first place, we must supply them with interesting magazines and books. I suggest a poster outside announcing subjects of interest, such as music, films, video, football and so on.

     Magazines should be sold at lower prices for the first-time customers. Once they come to the shop they will see other attractions.

     Also advertise on the local media about discounts for young people on all books bought in the next month. Operate an exchange programme where they can trade old books for new ones at a special price. Reserve a youth section in the shop where books and magazines interesting to them are on show. Invite them to come and sit in the comfortable chairs provided, to meet friends and look through books and magazines.

If we adopt proper strategies, young people will be attracted to our shop, and the sales will be on the rise

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Nine states and the District of Columbia are doing away with the sales tax on items such as clothes, shoes and even notebooks over the next few weeks, just in time for back-to- school shopping.
Most of the promotions last only a few days, so shoppers will have to act quickly to get a tax break. The tax holidays, which have already expired in two other states, apply to small and large items. For example, the tax break applies to any school supply that costs $15 or less in New Mexico. In Massachusetts, it covers most retail purchases of $2,500 or less. Stores may offer additional savings because these events "give retailers an opportunity to have a sale on top of what the state is doing," says Verenda Smith, government affairs associate at the Federation of Tax Administrators.
No industry-wide figures are available about how much consumers save annually from these tax breaks. But Texas estimates that shoppers will save $47.4 million in taxes this year, nearly a 3 percent increase from the previous year. Massachusetts says shoppers saved roughly $10 million in taxes during its 2005 event.
States that cast aside these promotions when a slow economy pinched state budgets are now reviving them in hopes of stimulating local economies. Some states also believe the gain in consumer goodwill helps balance out the loss in tax revenue.
In some cases, tax losses are minimal because serious shoppers don’t stop at clothes and books. "While states give up sales tax, they usually break even on sales-tax collection," says J. Craig Shearman, a vice-president at the National Retail Federation.
Sophie Beckmann, a certified public accountant at A. G. Edwards in St. Louis, says she’ll avoid that temptation by making a list of necessities. On the Missouri resident’s shopping list: notebooks, pencils, glue and three or four outfits for her son, who is entering the fifth grade this month. She plans to pocket any tax savings. "When you start buying more and spending more just because of the savings, then you’re not doing yourself a favor," Beckmann says.

According to the passage, the sales tax is on all the following EXCEPT ______ .

A.clothes

B.desk pads

C.children shoes

D.portable computers