First listen and then answer the question.
What kind of shopping does the writer enjoy,do you think?
‘Do you call that a hat?’I said to my wife.
‘You needn't be so rude about it,’my wife answered as she looked at herself in
the mirror.
I sat down on one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited. We had
been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front of the mirror.
‘We must't buy things we don't need,’I remarked suddenly.I regretted saying
it almost at once.
‘You needn't have said that,’my wife answered.‘I needn't remind you of that
terrible tie you bought yesterday.’
‘I find it beautiful,’I said.‘A man can never have too many ties.’
‘And a woman can't have too hats,’she answered.
Ten minutes later we walked out of the shop together.My wife was wearing a
hat that looked like a lighthouse!
Nes wowds and expressions 生词和短语
rude adj.无礼的 remark v.评说
mirror n.镜子 remind v.提醒
hole n.孔 lighthouse n.灯塔
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 ...needn't be so rude...,英语中实际上有两个need.一个是普通动词need;另一个是情态动词need.情态动词的need 和can,may 等情态动词一样,后接动词原形,但只用于否定和疑问句,肯定句用must,have to,ought to 或should.