Something Men Do Not Like to Do
Eric Brown hates shopping. "It's just not enjoyable to me," said the 28-year-old Chicago man who was carrying several shopping bags along the city's main. street,Michigan A venue. "When I’m out________(51), I basically know what I want to get. I rush in. I buy it. I________(52)."Common wisdom says that guys hate to shop. You can ask generations of men. But people who study shopping say that a number of social, cultural and economic factors are now_________(53) this "men-hate-to-shop" notion."_________(54) social class and age, men say they hate to shop," says Sharon Zukin, a-City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they________(55) to shop. Men generally like to shop for________(56), music and hardware (硬件). But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, 'Well, that's not shopping. That's________(57)."
In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are________(58).Women will________(59) through several 1,000-square-metre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the_________(60) digital camcorder (摄像放像机).
Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a mission or a________(61)to be won."Men are frequently shopping to win," says Mary Ann McGrath, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the last one and if they .do that it________(62) them happy."
When women shop, "they're doing it in a way where they want________(63) to be very happy," says McGrath. "They're kind of shopping for love."
In fact, it is in clothing where we see a male-female_________(64) most clearly.Why, complain some men, are all male clothes navy, black or brown But would they wear light green and pink (粉红色的)
These days, many guys wear a sort of "uniform", says Paco Underhill, author of "Why We Buy". "lt's been hard for them to understand what it means to be fashion-conscious(时常意识) in a business way. It becomes much, much easier________(65) you narrow your range of choices."
第 51 题
A. playing
B. fishing
C. shopping
D. going