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单选题About how many customers come to Harold’s on an average day?

A．30，000．
B．300，000．
C．1．5 million．
D．9 million．

W:Tell me, Peter, what makes Harold' sso famous?
M:Well, it's the biggest department store in the UK, and its food hall and Egyptian hall are very famous. People come to Harold' s just to see them.
W:What is special about the food hall?
M:It sells many different kinds of food: For example, it has two hundred and fifty kinds of cheese from all over the world, more than 180 kinds of bread. Customers also love all the different kinds of chocolate. They buy one hundred tons every year.
W:That' s amazing, and why is the Egyptian hall so famous?
M: Well, when people see it they feel they' re in another world. It looks like an Egyptian building from 4,000 years ago, and it sells beautiful objects.
They are not 4,000years old, of course.
W:Is it true that Harold's produces its own electricity?
M:Yes, it is 70%, enough for a small town. To light the outside of the building we use 11,500 light bulbs.
W:Really, tell me, how many customers do you have on an average day?
And how much do they spend?
M:About 30,000 people come on an average day. But during the sales, the number increases to 300,000 customers a day.How much do they spend? Well, on average, customers spend about 1.5 million pounds a day. The record for one day is 9 million pounds.
W :9 million pounds in one day?
M : Yes, on the fast day of the January sales.
W:Harold' s says it sells everything to everybody everywhere. Is that really true?
M :Oh, yes, of course. Absolutely everything.

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