短文改错

　　此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行作出判断是对还是错。如果是对的，在该行右边横线上画一个(√)：如果有错误(每行不会多于一个错误)，则按情况改错如下：

　　此行多一个词；把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

　　此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

　　出行错一个词：在错的词下划一个横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

　　注意：原行没有错的不要改。

写作

短文改错

　　此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行作出判断是对还是错。如果是对的，则在该行右边的横线上画一个勾(√)；如果有错误(每行不会多于一个错误)，则按情况改错如下：

　　如此行多一个词，则把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线把该词划掉；

　　如此行缺一个词，则在该词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在该行右边横线上写出该加的词；

　　如此行错一个词，则在错的词下划一横线，并在该行右边的横线上写出改正后的词。

　　注意：原行没错的不要改。

短文改错

　　此题要求你对一段文章改错。先对每一行作出判断是对还是错。如果是对的，在该行右边的横线上写T；如果有错（每行不会多于一个错误），则按情况改错如下：

　　此行多一词：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉，在该行右边横线上写上该词，并也用斜线划掉。

　　此行缺一词：把缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写上加的词。

　　此行错一词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

　　注意：原行没有错的请不要改。

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A.　Goods for auction (拍卖) sales
　　B.　Definition of bidding
　　C.　Way to sell more goods by auction
　　D.　Auction sales in history
　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions
　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
【小题1】______
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 strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
【小题2】 ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
【小题3】 ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
【小题4】 ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential 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 the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
【小题5】 ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.