Question 5 is based on the conversation you have just heard.

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M: You say your shop has been doing well. Could you give me some idea of what “doing well” means in facts and figures?

W: Well, “doing well” means averaging ￡1,200 or more a week for about 7 years, making almost a quarter of a million pounds. And “doing well” means your earnings are rising. Last year, we did slightly over 50,000 and this year, we hope to do more than 60,000. So, that’s good if we continue to rise.

M: Now, that’s gross earnings, I assume. What about your expenses?

W: Yes, that’s gross. The expenses, of course, go up steadily. And since we’ve moved to this new shop, the expenses have increased greatly, because it’s a much bigger shop. So I couldn’t say exactly what our expenses are. They are something in the region of six or seven thousand pounds a year, which is not high. Commercially speaking, it’s fairly low, and we try to keep our expenses as low as we can.

M: And your prices are much lower than the same goods in shops round about. How do the local shopkeepers feel about having a shop doing so well in their midst?

W: Perhaps a lot of them don’t realize how well we are doing, because we don’t make a point of publicizing. That was a lesson we learned very early on. We were very friendly with all local shopkeepers and we happened to mention to a local shopkeeper how much we had made that week. He was very unhappy and never as friendly again. So we make a point of never publicizing the amount of money we make. But we are on very good terms with all the shops. None of them have ever complained that we are putting them out of business or anything like that. I think it’s a nice friendly relationship. Maybe if they did know what we made, perhaps they wouldn’t be so friendly.

5. What are the speakers mainly talk about？

解析：B。本题目为主旨题。问题为：对话者主要说了什么？原文所在句：M: You say your shop has been doing well. Could you give me some idea of what “doing well” means in facts and figures?（你说你的商店做的挺好，可以给我们提供一些事实和数据来展示一下这个“挺好”吗？）文章随后的对话都在谈论数据和一些经营事实来讲述女士在商业上的成功。因此，选项B) The business success of the woman’s shop（女士的商店的成功），与对话主题完全一致。一般长对话的首句会把对话的主旨提出来，之后的聊天内容围绕着开头的主旨句展开。