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of a problem. With over 400 brands of shampoo on the market,  how does the
        consumer  (7)  ______   hold  of  the  information  necessary  to  choose  betvveen
        them?
           For  some  people  the  solution  is  to  huy  only  well-known  brands,  whilst
        others  are  happy  to  be  (8)  ______  hy  advertising.  There  is  evidence,  (9)
       ______,  that  for  some  people  the  (1 0 )_______of choice  available  to  them  in
        Britain’s  consumer  society  is  actually  a  (11)  ______   of  anxiety  and  stress.
        One man interviewed hy the researchers admitted that he had (1 2 )______to
       huy his girlfriend a mobile phone for her birthday, but was so  (1 3 )______ hy
        the number of diíTerent types on oíĩer in the shop that he (1 4 )______ up and
        decided to huy her a (15)______ of flowers instead!

        1.  A. deep            B. long           c. wide            D. tall
        2   A. beneíít         B. favour         c. proíĩt          D. value
        3.  A. considering     B. hoping         c. planning        D. thinking
        4.  A. styles          B. models         c. patterns        D. lahels
        5.  A. makes           B .lets           c. allows          D. leaves
        6.  A. report          B. represent      c. review          D.respect
        7.  A. take            B. come           c. have            D. get
        8.  A. persuaded       B. suggested      c. proposed        D. recommend
        9.  A. thereíore       B. moreover       c. however         D. whether
        10.  A. amount         B. height         c. total           D. rank
        11.  A. spring         B. reason         c. motive          D. source
        12.  A. looked for     B. set out        c. made up         D. go ne after
        13.  A. coníused       B. complicated    c. disorganised    D. misunderstood
        14.  A. hung           B. held           c. gave            D. kept
        15.  A. heap           B. handful        c. bundle          D.bunch


       22.                        M EN AND  SH O PPING
           Normally,  a crèche  is where  children are  looked aíter while their parents
       work,  but  recently  a  shopping  centre  opened  a  “crèche”  which  (1)  ______
        men to play Computer games while their partners go shopping.  The aim is to
        (2)  ______men  to  feel  that  shopping is  fun.  You  only  have  to  (3)  _______at
        men’s faces in a shopping centre in the UK to realise that they find shopping
        less  (4 )______ than women.  Whether they are  well  off or  (5 )_______up,  the
        eíĩect  is  the  same:  they  are  so  anxious  before  they  go  shopping  that  their
        stress levels increase to a truly (6 )______extent,  comparable to those felt hy
        (7 )______fighter pilots or riot police.  According to one  psychologist,  women
        are  much  more  (8)        in  the  shops  and  men  get  so  impatient  because
        men are less used to shopping than women.  She adds that,  quite  (9 )______ ,
        over  the  years,  women  have  developed  a  laid-back  (10)  ______ to  shopping,
        but that m en’s negative íeelings (1 1 )______when they 6ire bu3ãng things for
        people  other  than  themselves.  It’s  understandable,  then,  that  women  (12)

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