Imagine the scene. You’re sitting in the hot sunshine beside the swimming pool of your international luxury hotel, drinking your imported gin and tonic. In front of you is the beach, reserved for hotel guests with motor boats for hire. Behind you is an 18-hole golf course, which was cleared from the native forest and is kept green by hundreds of water sprinklers. Around the hotel are familiar international restaurant chains and the same shops that you have them at home. You’ve seen some local people—some of them sell local handicrafts outside the hotel. You bought a small wooden statue and after arguing for half an hour you paid only a quarter of what the man was asking. Really cheap!

曹老师好，请教您以下问题：

1.1）    hire 可以用hiring吗？for后面通常是动名词？其次2）除了用hire可否用rent？二者有何区别？

2.        You have them at home 中的them 可否去掉？

3.        最后一句what是融合性关系代词，what the man was asking = the price which the man was asking.对吗？

谢谢老师。