Do you haggle(讲价)? Many people are afraid of haggling 1. they don’t want to be considered 2. . When you are shopping with your friends, stop thinking about what they think of you. They may do the same as you after you get a good price!
It’s the right thing. 3. don’t let the seller know that you 4. it very much. You just show your attitude(态度)—If the price is OK, you will buy the thing. But you can also live 5. it.
When the seller asks a price that is 6. to what you want, you 7. say, “Oh, OK. Well, let me ask my mother or father. I want this for months, but she or he keeps saying it’s too 8. .” If you have a phone, you can call her or him, “Yes, but it’s what I’ve been looking for... I don’t know... OK... Yes, fine...” After your call, turn to the seller and say, “I can buy it for... You can give me a lower price.”
It is also important to keep the talk going. Keeping talking 9. the seller think that you want to buy the thing. Don’t stop talking, or the seller may think you have no 10. . Then he or she will not think of your price.

1. because 2. poor 3. But 4. want 5. without 6. close 7. just 8. expensive 9. makes 10. interest

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“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other. But when a person says “How are you?”, he or she hopes to hear the answer “Fine.”, even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. 1. They are common ways of saying “Hello.” and “Hi.”.
Sometimes, people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks “Do you agree?”, the other person may be thinking, “No, I don’t agree. I think you’re wrong.” 2. It’s a nicer way to say that you don’t agree with someone.
3. For example, when a person wants to finish talking with other people on the phone, he or she may say, “I have to go now.” Sometimes he or she gives an excuse like “someone’s at the door” or “something is burning” and so on. 4. It’s a polite way to stop a conversation and it doesn’t hurt the other person’s feelings. 5. This is one way of being nice to people and it’s a part of the game of language.
A. The excuse may be real, or it may not be.
B. It’s interesting when people want to finish talking.
C. People don’t always say exactly what they are thinking.
D. It’s hard to know how people want to start a conversation.
E. But it doesn’t sound very polite, so they may say, “I’m not sure.”
F. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question, and “Fine.” isn’t really an answer.

1.F 2.E 3.B 4.A 5.C