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Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-r
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-r
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2010-06-18
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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 "bid", 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.
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by prospective buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in numerical order; he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer there- fore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible.
The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should be acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the rivalries among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other. It is largely on his advice that a seller will fix a "reserve" price, that is, a price below which the goods cannot be sold. Even the best auctioneers, however, find it difficult to stop a "knock-out’, whereby dealers illegally arrange beforehand not to bid against each other, but nominate one of themselves as the only bidder, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a "knock-out’ comes off, the real auction takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.
The passage is mainly concerned with______.
选项
A、how an auction is conducted
B、the auctioneer’s role in an auction
C、the development of auctioning
D、the kinds of goods to be auctioned
答案
B
解析
纵观全文,第一段的前四句道出了拍卖人的角色和作用;第二段说明拍卖人的灵活性和个人利益的关系;第三段说明了拍卖的成功与否取决于拍卖人的个人素质。由此可见,本文的重点是说明拍卖人的作用,故选[B]。而其他选项均不符原文。
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