Вопрос № 605411 - Английский язык

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Selfridges is a big department store in Oxford Street, London which stretches along the street for 154 metres. Outside it looks like a palace; inside it seems like a small town. The store was opened in 1909 by Harry Gordon Selfridge, an American who had worked in department stores in his home country. Today Selfridges has a staff of 4,000, a car park and a 309 room hotel. A new department, Miss Selfridge, was opened in 1965 to sell fashions to young women. Attempts to open other branches of Selfridges itself have not been successful. The sore has always been famous for its publicity. At Christmas Selfridges’ windows turned into scenes from fairy tales with moving puppets and scenery are one of the sights of London and attract thousands of visitors.
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The sore has always been famous _______.

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Like many other very old cities, London was never planned. It grew around two centres – a fort the Romans built on one bank of the Thames, and an abbey, founded later on the other bank. As time went by, the place round the Roman fort developed into the City of London, the country’s business centre, the abbey is now known as Westminster Abbey.
By the middle of the first century AD London had already been in existence for about a hundred years. Roads leading to other towns had changed into streets, market grounds became squares. London was growing …
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Like many other very old cities, London was never …

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Next is a chain of popular fashion clothes shops for men and women which was successful in the 1980s. In 1981, a small group of clothes shops was taken over by George and Liz Davies, a married couple and named Next. They sold clothes in co-ordinated groups to make choice easy, and became famous for their suits, which were worn by the new businessmen and women. In 1985, Next started selling furniture and opened jewellery shops. It started catalogue shopping in 1988. In contrast to others on the market the catalogue looked like a well-designed magazine and the shops were created by a fashionable interior-design practice, Conran Associates. In December 1988, the Davies were sacked, fashions started to change and people stopped spending large amounts of money on clothes as inflation and interest rates rose. The new management closed many shops. Next provides a cheap education in style and fashion that had not been available to the majority of people before.
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They sold clothes in co-ordinated groups to make choice easy, _______.

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V.H. Smith is a national chain of shops which sells newspapers and magazines. It also sells books, videos, CDs, stationery, pens and office equipment. Smith’s has a mass-market image of bookselling and in 1989 they bought Waterstones chain of bookshops which sells quality books in well-designed surroundings, W. H. Smith was William Henry Smith, born in 1792, who inherited a newspaper delivery business from his father. The family received the title of Viscount Hambelden in 1891.
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V.H. Smith is a national chain of shops which sells _______.

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The Body Shop sells perfumes, soap, shampoo and skin-care products for men and women. There are 130 shops in the UK and 300 worldwide. The Body Shop advertises itself through its philosophy, which is concern about pollution, the environment and green issues. None of the products are tested on animals, the ingredients are natural as much as possible, and each shop has a refill section, so that customers can re-use their bottles. However, all the bottles are plastic and the Body Shop must have made many millions of them since the first shop opened in Brighton in 1976. This will not help pollution. The shops sell good, cheap products in attractive surroundings. The company has shown good business sense in two ways. Apart from 23 company-owned shops in Britain, the rest are owned on a franchise: the name is bought by the manager of the shop who runs the shop with company advice. Secondly, all the shops have a strong, simple design. They are dark green, have wide open doors and a feeling of space and colour. They all carry the distinctive yellow and green Body Shop logo.
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The Body Shop advertises itself _______.

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Tesco was founded by Jack Cohen, who used to say ‘pile it high, sell it cheap’ to explain the great success of his supermarkets. There are a lot of stores with 80,000 employees in Britain. Cohen started in 1918 with £30 worth of Air Force groceries which he brought at discount and sold on a market stall. The name came about like this: Cohen used to buy job-lots and chests of food. One day of 1924 Cohen bought some chests of tea from an importer called T. E. Stockwell and he needed a name in a hurry to put on the crates. He took TES from an importer’s initials and CO from his own and sold the tea. “It happened so quickly,” said T. E. Stockwell. Tesco’s first self-service supermarket opened in 1949 after Cohen saw the system operated in America. It was during the 1950s that Tesco started cutting (slashing) its prices and Cohen became known as “Jack the Slasher.”
The cut-price image has remained and the name “Tesco” is often used to mean anything cheap and unsophisticated. Today Tesco has an expensive advertising campaign in an effort to upgrade the image.
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Today Tesco has _______.