Passage Five
Auctions (拍卖) are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands, This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum.
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called "subusta", meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold by the candle’, a
A. spoilt goods
B. property taken from the enemy
C. old worn-out weapons
D. spears
Passage Five
Auctions (拍卖) are public sales of goods ,conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of goods. This is called" knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands, This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum.
The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called" subusta", meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods were often sold by the candle’, a short cand
A. for the highest price offered
B. only at fixed prices
C. at a price less than their true value
D. very cheaply
Auctions are public sales of goods,
conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in
the auction room to make offers, or "bids", for the various items on sale. He
encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as
the buyer of the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the
bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he
stands. This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum. The ancient Romans probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auctio, meaning "increase". The Romans usually sold in this way the spoils taken in war; these sales were called sub basra, meaning "under the spear", a spear being stuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. In England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goods A. because they took place at night B. as a signal for the crowd to gather C. to keep the auctioneer warm D. to limit the time when offers could be made [名词解释]
拍卖 [简答题]potential sales
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