Use Of English: Test H

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Use Of English: Test H

Shopping in Japan

Unlike millions of Britons, who will not know how much the Christmas turkey, child’s bicycle and the January sales have __(1)__ them until the credit card bill arrives, the Japanese __(2)__ to settle up before they’ve even __(3)__ their shopping list.

The Japanese like to improve on every idea, even if the idea is cash. So they have been __(4)__ about the pre-paid card. It __(5)__ the bother of banknotes and it saves the Japanese __(6)__ the fear of being in __(7)__ to someone else.

It __(8)__ with the convenient pre-paid telephone card and has __(9)__ through train ticket cards, taxi cards, and supermarket cards all the way to McDonald’s hamburgers cards.

Few Westerners can understand why anyone __(10)__ want to give money to a supermarket or a department store __(11)__ by buying a pre-paid card. But credit companies are held in some suspicion in Japan. People have traditionally preferred cash and will happily stroll the streets with quite large __(12)__ of money in their pockets. The fact that street crime is fairly __(13)__ helps.

Pre-paid cards are now as __(14)__ as chopsticks and twice as convenient. About 500 million cards were sold in the first five years after they became __(15)__.

- A) lost
- B) cost
- C) charged
- D) priced
- A) prefer
- B) desire
- C) enjoy
- D) select
- A) written about
- B) written off
- C) written out
- D) written up
- A) keen
- B) enthusiastic
- C) exciting
- D) eager
- A) does away with
- B) does out of
- C) does without
- D) does out
- A) of
- B) from
- C) for
- D) by
- A) payment
- B) bill
- C) debt
- D) interest
- A) opened
- B) invented
- C) introduced
- D) started
- A) followed
- B) developed
- C) changed
- D) turned
- A) would
- B) will
- C) may
- D) must
- A) in time
- B) in front
- C) in future
- D) in advance
- A) savings
- B) sums
- C) deposits
- D) masses
- A) seldom
- B) slight
- C) rare
- D) slow
- A) common
- B) usual
- C) regular
- D) often
- A) prepared
- B) possible
- C) ready
- D) available

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