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The first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to

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问题    The first clue came when I got my hair cut. The stylist offered a complimentary nail-polish change while I waited for my hair to dry. Maybe she hoped this little amenity would slow the growing inclination of women to stretch each haircut to last four months.
   Suddenly everything is on sale. The upside to the economic downturn is the immense incentive it gives retailers to treat you like a queen for a day. But now the customer rules, just for showing up. Finger the scarf, then start to walk away, and its price floats silkily downward. When the mechanic calls to tell you that brakes and a timing belt and other services will run close to $ 2,000, it’s time to break out the newly perfected art of the considered pause. You really don’t even have to say anything pitiful before he’ll offer to knock a few hundred dollars off.
   Restaurants are also caught in a fit of ardent hospitality, especially around Wall Street. New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni characterizes the new restaurant demeanor as "extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation."
   Now everyone is hoping to restart the economy. But human nature is funny that way. In dangerous times, we clench and squint at the deal that looks too good to miss, suspecting that it must be too good to be true. Store owners will tell you horror stories about shoppers with attitude, who walk in demanding discounts and flaunt their new power at every turn. These store owners wince as they sense bad habit forming: Will people expect discounts forever? Will their hard-won brand luster be forever cheapened, especially for items whose allure depends on their being ridiculously priced?
   There will surely come a day when things go back to "normal"; retail sales even inched up in January after sinking for the previous six months. Bargain-hunting can be addictive regardless of the state of the markets, and haggling is a low-risk, high-value contact sport. Trauma digs deep into habit, like my 85-year-old mother still calling her canned-goods cabinet "the bomb shelter." The children of the First Depression were saving string and preaching sacrifice long after the skies cleared. They came to be called the "greatest generation." As we learn to be decent stewards of our resources, who knows what might come of it? We have lived in an age of wanton waste, and there is value in practicing conservation that goes far beyond our own bottom line.
Why did the stylist treat the author so well when she got her hair cut?
选项 A、Shops try various kinds of means to satisfy customers.
B、Large shops or small shops, are offering big discounts.
C、Women are inclined to have their hair cut less frequently.
D、Customers refrain from purchasing things impulsively.
答案C
解析 根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段。通过原文可知，卖家在绞尽脑汁地取悦顾客，希望其能频繁护理头发，光顾小店。而她这样做的原因正是因为女性倾向于减少剪发次数，四个月才去剪一次头发，因此C项“女性倾向于减少剪头发的次数”符合题意。A项 “商店尝试各种各样的方法来满足顾客”、B项“大大小小的商店提供大额折扣”和D项“顾客不愿冲动地购买东西”均不符合题意，故选C。
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