Do you expect to eat dinner with a 300-pound bear(熊)? The idea may make most people _______ and run away! But for one family from Russia, it is only a _______ of life to share good food at the dinner table.

Svetlana and Yuriy seem like any other common couple(夫妻) in Russia, but for their 23-year-old bear named Stepan they are very _______. Years ago, the couple found the 3-month-old Stepan in the forest. The bear got lost. So the couple decided to get it back to their _______ and keep it with them.

It was not so _______ to live with a bear. As it got bigger, it needed to eat more food. The couple had to work harder for more ______ to buy it food. At the same time, not everyone could understand _____ the couple did this. They were afraid the large animal might hurt(伤害) people. Luckily, the bear was always very _____ because it lived with the couple for a long time.

Now the bear is about 2.13 meters tall when standing _____ others. It is happy to live with the couple. Can you believe? Stepan ____ giving people hugs(拥抱), the real bear hug!

Experts in marketing have studied how to make people buy more food in a supermarket. They do all kinds of things that you do not even _______.

For example, the ordinary food that everybody must buy, like bread, milk, and vegetable oil, is spread all over the store. You have to walk by all the more interesting and more expensive things in order to find what you need.

The more _______ food is in packages with bright colored pictures. This food is placed at eye level so you see it and want to buy it. The things that you have to buy anyway are usually located on a higher or lower shelf. One study showed that when a supermarket moved four products from floor to _______ level, it sold 78 percent more. However, this is not the case with _______. Things that children like are on lower shelves.

Another study showed that for every minute a person is in a supermarket after the first half hour, he or she spends $0.5. If someone stays forty minutes, the supermarket has an additional $5. So, the store has a comfortable temperature in summer and winter, and it plays soft music. It is a _______ place for people to stay and spend more money.

So be _______ in the supermarket. You may go home with a bag of food you were not planning to buy. The supermarket, not you, decided you should buy it.