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The Greatest Bazaar in the World
You can buy anything in New York. Everything is for sale: Tibetan beads, canned rattlesnake, Irish claddagh rings, lizard-skin cowboy boots, ponchos, old photograph cylinders, Australian wines, Navaho jewelry, love potions, tongs for removing toast from a toaster, orange blossom honey, air guns designed to fire coins into the baskets of toll booth, frozen yogurt, dried seaweed, prayer wheels, wormwood, Iberian hams, polish sausages, paintings that sell for as much as five million dollars, rare books, props from hit plays, the autographs of every president of the USA since George Washington, African masks, lessons in yoga, do-it-yourself harpsichord-assembly kits, “organic” peanut butter.
You name it, and there is a store in the big apple which sells it.
Price-conscious shoppers should remember that there is always a bargain sale going on somewhere in the big appleon the Labor or Memorial day holidays, and on Washington’s or Lincoln’s birthday, prices at department stores decline. If there are no specials, just take a bus to the lower east side, or Loehmann’s in the Bronx, where there are permanent sales and you can get quality goods at vastly reduced prices.
Keep in mind also that most of the things for sale in New York city can also be rented or hired: wedding suits, fur coats, diapers, Rolls Royces, bartenders, automobile tools, animals, bikes, rug cleaners and ski equipment.
You can, believe it or not, rent an interesting guest to attend your party if you want toenjoy it to the fullest.
20. As a New Yorker, which of the followingcannot be bought?
A. The luxury car Rolls Royces.
B. Ski equipment.
C. The autograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
D. A person accompanying you to a party.
22. On what kinds of days are prices in the big apple department storesnotmarked down?
A. Labor day. B. Memorial day.
C. Washington’s birthday. D. Womens’ day.
23. If you want to buy discount goods at any time, which of the following places will you most probably go to?
A. The upper east side.
B. Loehmann’s in the Bronx.
C. Department stores in New York.
D. George Washington Monument.
