Time spent in a bookstore can be enjoyable, if you 【S1】______are a book-lover or merely th
Time spent in a bookstore can be enjoyable, if you 【S1】______
are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a
present. You may even have entered the shop just to
find shelters away a sudden shower. 【S2】______
Whatever the reasons, you can soon become totally
unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a
book with an attractive dust-jacket is irresistible, even 【S3】______
this method of selection ought not to be followed, as
you might end up with a rather bored book. You soon 【S4】______
become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it
is only much later that you realise you have spent far far 【S5】______
much time there and must dash off to keep some
forgotten appointment without buying a book, of
course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday
life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop.
There are not many places where it is impossible to do 【S6】______
this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You
can wander round such places to your heart's content. If
it is a good shop, no assistant will approach to you with 【S7】______
the inevitable greeting: "Can I help you, sir?" You
needn't buy anything if you don't want. In a bookshop
an assistant should remain the background until you 【S8】______
have finished browsing. Then, only then, are his
services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out
where a particular section is, since when he has led you 【S9】______
there, the assistant should retire discreetly and look as 【S10】______
he is not interested in selling a single book.
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