2017年6月大学英语六级阅读理解每日一练（20）
距离2017年6月大学英语六级考试还有一个半月的时间，已经报名的同学备考一定要抓紧，不要临时抱佛脚。新东方网英语六级频道为大家整理了英语六级阅读理解每日一练，每天一道题考试不担心。I have never attended a large company's board meeting in my life, but I
feel certain that the discussion often takes the following lines. The 11 of
producing a new—for example—toothpaste would make 8 Op the decent price for it,
so we will market it at ￡l. 20. It is not a bad toothpaste (not specially good
either, but not bad) , and as people like to try new things it will sell well to
start with; but the 12 of novelty soon fades, so sales will 13 . When that
starts to happen we will reduce the price to ￡l. 15. And we will turn it into a
bargain by printing 5p OFF all over it, whereupon people will rush to buy it
even though it still costs about forty-three percent more than its 14 price.
Sometimes it is not 5p OFF but lp OFF. What a shame to advertise lp OFF
your soap or washing powder or dog food or whatever. Even the poorest old-age
pensioner ought to regard this as an insult, but he doesn't. A bargain must not
be 15 To be offered a "gift" of one penny is like being invited to dinner and
offered one single pea (tastily cooked), and nothing else. Even if it
represented a 16 reduction it would be an insult. Still, people say, one has to
have washing powder (or whatever) and one might as well buy it a penny cheaper.
When I was a boy in Hungary a man was 17 of murdering some¬one for the sake of
one pengo, the equivalent of a shilling, and pleaded 18 The judge shouted 19 :
"To kill a man for a shilling! What can you say in your 20 ?" The murderer
replied: "A shilling here. . . a shilling there. . . " And that's what today's
shopper says, too: "A penny here... a penny there. . . "
A. missed
B. defense
C. real
D. cost
E. anxiously
F. attraction
G. fair
H. expense
I. fall
J. angrily
K. dismissed
L. accused
M. guilty
N. faulty
O. security
II. D 12. F 13. I 14. G 15. A 16. C 17. L 18. M 19. J
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