Dialogue B

（A：shop Assistant B：Mr Smith C：Mrs Smith）

A：Can I help you？

C：I'd like to buy some Chinese cakes.

A：We have cream birthday cakes，ten yuan each. Do you like it？

C：Fine. Give me a cream birthday cake and two boxes of famous Chinese cakes，and help me to pick a variety of them，please.

A：All right. For Chinese style cakes，we have the Cantonese style and the Suzhou style. The skin of the Cantonese style cakes is sweet，soft，puffy palatable¹ and filled with heavy stuffing. The famous Cantonese cakes are moon cakes from Guangdong， Sha—pi—ma….The skin of the Suzhou style cakes is puffy and filled with fragrant² nuts.

There are not only sweet cakes but also meat moon cakes.

C：Well，will you wrap them up separately？

A：Certainly. Any thing else？

C：Nothing more. How much altogether？

A：Nineteen yuan and forty-five fen³.

C：Here are two ten-yuan notes. Keep the change.

A：For me？Oh，no. We don't accept tips. But thank you all the same.

C：O. K. . Good-bye.

A：Good-bye. Please step in again.

Words and Expressions　

Cantonese    a. n. 广东的，广东人，广东话

puffy     n. 松脆的

palatable    a. 可口的，味美的

stuffing    n. 填塞；填馅

fragrant    a. 芬芳的