Вопрос № 605408 - Английский язык

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Oxford Street is a 1_______ shopping area in the centre of London. People who visit Oxford Street never get bored. They can walk around and enjoy the 2_______ and sounds of this busy street or shop at one of the 300 shops.
Some of the shops in Oxford Street include Debenhams, Selfridges and Marks & Spencer. On Oxford Street, you can 3_______ anything from expensive gifts to cheap souvenirs. Oxford Street is always full of people – even on Sundays when most of the shops are open. Need a break from all your shopping? There are also a number of wonderful cafes and restaurants to choose from.
It’s easy to see why Oxford Street is a big 4_______ for shoppers from all over the world.

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A department store is a store which sells many different kinds of goods, each in a separate department. Modern department stores serve the needs of entire families. People enjoy shopping in such stores because they can make all their purchases under one roof.
The typical department store occupies one large building, with separate departments located on a number of floors. A number provide special services, such as a travel agency or optician’s.
Different stores employ hundreds of people for different jobs. Employees buy, price, and sell the goods. The sales promotion manager and his staff promote the sale of merchandise through advertising and other techniques. The comptroller heads the section that keeps records and manages the store’s financial affairs. The personnel staff hires employees and handles other employment problems.

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Woolworth’s is an American chain store which opened its first branch in 1909. The store used to sell a wide range of goods including food, furniture, records, toys, sweets, clothes and paint. Woolworth’s was seen as the place where poor people would go to buy cheap goods. Woolworth’s now sells small range of profitable goods, such as children’s clothes, sweets, videos and make up. It has a clever advertising campaign which concentrates on videos and CDs and always uses the same simple formula. This attracts people into Woolworth’s to buy other things.
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Woolworth’s was seen as the place where poor people would go _______.

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Dillons first opened in 1936 as the bookshop to the University of London. The shop was bought in 1977 by Pentos which specialises in prints, stationery, posters and greeting cards. Dillons is now a chain of high-quality modern bookshops. They are often to be found in large buildings of traditional architecture, with modern hi-tech interiors. Dillons’ image is one of academic excellence and they are keen to be associated with the older universities. There are branches in Exeter and Oxford, and in Cambridge Dillons has one of the largest bookshops in Britain.
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Dillons is now _______.

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Harrods is a tourist attraction in London like Buckingham Palace or the Tower of London. It is also a department store. 40% of Harrods’ business is to foreign customers and there is a total of 50,000 customers a day. It all started as a grocer’s shop in 1849, owned by Harry Charles Harrod. The area where Harrods is, Knightsbridge, became fashionable and wealthy after the 1851 Great Exhibition was held in nearby Hyde Park. Harrods has always sold luxury to the rich. In the first 50 years to 1901 Harrods grew larger, and by 1905 it had become the store we see today, employing 4,000 people. Harrods has about 230 departments, among them 16 Food Halls and 34 for fashion. The store runs a library, has a bank, arranges funerals, has a kennel for customers’ dogs, and its own water supply and electricity generators. Harrods covers 1.8 hectares and seems like a potential independent state in London, a Vatican of commerce.
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Harrods has always sold luxury _______.

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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, _______.