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| 1.____ Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer.He asks the crowd assembled in the auctionroom 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 andsucceed in getting a high price by en  couraging two business competitors to bid against each other. |
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1. To be a good teacher,you need some of the gifts of a good actor:you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker,with a good, strong,pleasing voice which is fully under your control；and you must be able to act what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear. 2. Watch a good teacher,and you will see that he does not sit unmoved before his class:he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about,using his arms,his hands and fingers to help him in his explanations,and his face to express feeling.Listen to him,and you will hear the loudness,the quality and the musical note if his voice always changes according to what he is talking about. 3. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage,for there are very important differences between the teacher's work and the actor's.The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, and even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. 4. A good teacher works in quite a different way.His audience takes an active part in his play:they ask questions,they obey orders,and if they don't understand something,they say so.The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience.He cannot learn his part by heart,but must invent it as he goes along. 5. As a good teacher presently,you must take your audience as your friends,take care of them,help them and give them enough freedom and space.I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage play because their brains can't keep discipline:they cannot keep strictly to what another has written. |