A large store was having its spring sale on shoes and boots. It was the first day of the sale, and the shoe department was full of women who were eagerly trying to buy them. There were all kinds of shoes and boots in a variety of colors, and the prices had been reduced a lot, because the store wanted to get rid of as many as possible in order to make room for their new stock.

The cashiers were kept busy, and at one moment a woman came to one of them with her money in her hand and said, "I don't need a bag, thank you. I'm wearing the shoes I bought." She pointed to them on her feet.

"Would you like a bag to put your old shoes in then?" the cashier asked politely as she took the woman's money.

"No, thank you," the woman answered quickly, "I've just sold those to someone else."

A     Answer these questions:

1. What were on sale in the large store that week?
2. Why were they being sold cheaply?
3. Was the sale successful?
4. What did a woman say to one of the cashiers?
5. What did the cashier ask her?
6. Why didn't the woman need a bag?

C     Draw lies from the words on the left to the correct words on the right. Then write out the five complete sentences.

1. The cashier                                  a. had bought the woman's old shoes.

2. Another woman                          b. had sold her old shoes.

3. The woman                                 C. offered the woman a bag.

4. The shoes and boots                  d. was having a sale.

5. The store                                    e. were of all kinds and colors.