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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