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Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车).They
will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business.
Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make
shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4,1937,Coldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the
morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn't wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the cart a long look, but hardly anybody would give
them a try.
After a while, Coldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts." Don't you think this
arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?"one shopper replied.
But Coldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade
people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and
pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的)
customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his
market. But not only did more people come-those Who came bought more. With larger, easier-to- handle
baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today's shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason
Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before
the coming of the shopping cart.
1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to ____, ( no more than 3 words)
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2. What was the purpose of Goldman's invention? ( no more than 10 words)
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3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( no more than 10 words)
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4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( no more than 10 words)
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5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( no more than 20 words)
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