20. TEST 3 – SHOPS & SHOPPING 02

Why don’t you_____ the queue while I go and get some cash out of themachine?

• enter

• join

• stand

• belong

Only $300 for that laptop? That’s a real_____!

 

• bargain

• contract

• sale

• donation

The customer was so annoyed that he_____ the receipt in front of themanager!

    

• wore out

• ripped up

• took over

• tried on

The unscrupulous salesman_____ the old mem out of his life savings.

  

• deprived

• extracted

• robbed

• swindled

Salesmen always exaggerate, so I take what they say with a pinch of_____.

  

• salt

• flesh

• pepper

• caution

It’s very easy for the undereducated to be_____ by slick-talking salesmen.

• put aside

• put up

• taken in

• taken away

Eventually the salesman _____ me to buy the car.

    

• convinced

• decided

• suggested

• persuaded

The salesman told me that reading this book would make me more intelligent, but I think I’ve been_____.

  

• conned

• blackmailed

• libelled

• slandered

I didn’t lake up his recommendation, as he sounded so_____ about it.

   

• half-headed

• half-hearted

• half-handed

• half-witted

The _____ in television sales is causing some concern to manufacturers.

    

• slump

• deterioration

• poverty

• deficit