Mr.West intended to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very busy, so he was never1to find time to go to the shops. At last, when it was the week2Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he3that he could not wait any longer. He worked in an office, and4had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them quickly and went out to a big shop near his office during his lunch5.The shop was full of women, who were also buying presents during their lunch hour. Mr.West stood politely at the edge(边)of a crowd of women who were6forward to try to get to the people who were7necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forward slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were8into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly past him. After half an hour, he was just as far from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been9he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to an end, so he decided to change his10 of doing things: he put his head down,11a sudden loud shout and started to push his way towards the12of the crowd as hard as he could. The women around him became very13when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold him."Why can't you behave like a gentleman?"they shouted. "Ladies,"he14them,"I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half hour, and it has done me no15,so now I am starting to behave like a lady!" |