Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a __16__ shop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You __17__ buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out __18__ the book you want is. But if you fail, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not __19__ selling any books at all.

There is another story that tells us about a good shop. A __20__ found a very useful book in the shop, though it was too expensive for him to buy. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to read __21__ at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book ___22__ it was and was leaving __23__ he saw a woman assistant signing(示意) to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book __24__, “I put it there so as not to be sold out,” said the assistant. Then she __25__ the student to go on with his reading.

16. A. good              B. bad              C. special             D. usual

17. A. shouldn’t           B. needn’t           C. mustn’t            D. can’t

18. A. what               B. which            C. where             D. how

19. A. surprised at         B. proud of          C. interested in         D. fed up with

20. A. librarian            B. teacher           C. student            D. writer

21. A. little               B. a little            C. few               D. a few

22. A. where              B. what             C. that               D. which

23. A. while              B. when             C. as                D. until

24. A. in his hand          B. in her hand        C. in her pocket       D. in a corner

25. A. left                B. made               C. had             D. kept