10 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. value B. invented C. founded D. specifically
E. acknowledged F. match G. shaped H. offered
I. comprehensively J. element K. aid |
Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's, Chicago. 1 in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department stores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, 'the customer is always right, ' which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have 2 the phrase 'Only Shopping Days until Christmas'.
When he visited London on holiday in 1906, he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no 3 for their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges - a department store named after him at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team 4 an ambitious classical palace building with a wall of plate glass windows.
Opened in 1909, Selfridges 5 customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first 6 room and most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being 7 instructed in the art of making a sale.
Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and 8 stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key 9 of the 20th century culture, and Chaplin 10 the growing trend for shopping in the -department store in his film The Floorwalker.
