Номер 3, страница 71 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Вербицкая, Маккинли

Unit eight.

Track fifty-seven.

Jason: It means that we all eat the same things and dress the same.

Jeff: Well, I'm not so sure that supermarkets and chain stores are as terrible as you think, Jason.

Sue: Well, you always complain when I ask you to do the shopping on Saturdays, Jeff.

Jeff: Well, okay. It's not exactly fun. But your mother and I can remember the days before supermarkets and it was probably even worse. Do you remember how it was, Sue, after we were just married? Every day you could spend hours in different shops just to buy a couple of things. You know, you wanted to buy boot polish, well, you'd have to go to a shoe shop. You needed some pet food for the dog, there was a pet shop a few streets away.

Sue: Oh, yes. It was so inconvenient. I wanted some lipstick, I had to go to the chemist on the corner. Sometimes I had to run because it shut at lunchtimes. Anything you needed, you had to go to stand in a queue in a different shop to buy each item. And there was always just one shop assistant. It was so slow.

Jeff: Bread from the baker's, vegetables from the greengrocer's, stationery from the newsagent's, meat from the butcher's, salt from the grocer's.

Sue: And what about clothes? What a nightmare. Skirts, tights, underwear, all in lots of little clothes stores.

Jeff: And of course, there was no shopping center with a handy car park to park your car. You had to walk for miles around the town.

Sue: And then take all your different bags of shopping home on the bus. Yes, I remember that.

Jeff: We used to spend hours at the shops every day. So actually, I'd say that thanks to supermarkets, we actually spend a lot less time shopping.

Sue: And of course, we have more money for other things now. Those little shops used to be so expensive.

Jeff: And there were no cash dispensers in those days. So, if you didn't have enough money on you, you had to wait till the bank opened.

Jason: Okay, okay. Well, yes, maybe you've got a point. But I still think that supermarkets are bad, you know? For a start, the wages in these shops are terribly low. It's also bad for farmers and small businesses. But worst of all, these shops make shopping trendy. Sometimes, you can see whole families, all wearing their best clothes, just strolling around the shopping malls, as if they're on a seaside holiday.