Harrington Wilson's selling technique was 【C1】______itself. It was nothing more than a 【C2

Harrington Wilson's selling technique was 【C1】______ itself. It was nothing more than a 【C2】______ manipulation of human vanity. He was aware that there were a number of people who professed to know a great deal about antiques, and even more who would rather not confess that they did not and who accordingly practised little tricks and subterfuges to 【C3】______ their ignorance from their neighbors.

The women--they were mainly women--jostling round his stall, picking over his shoddy wares, would sometimes run a finger round the rim of a cup or hold it knowingly up to the light as if to test its luster, and plates were 【C4】______ turned upside down in search of china marks. To such a customer, Harrington would lean forward, benevolent and confidential, and in a conspiratorial whisper would murmur: "No, madam. I'm afraid it's not genuine (Wedgwood, Sevres--whatever it might be) but it is a superb copy--no one 【C5】______ ever suspect that it was not real, unless, of course, you told them. I can let you have it for—I could sell it for much more, but it would be unethical of me to try to pass it off as genuine..."

The customer, overwhelmed by such honesty and privately determined not to be quite so honest about the article to heir friends, would then willingly pay ＄ 2 for something that 【C6】______ Harrington a few pence. The profit 【C7】______ on these transactions was obviously so great that he was soon able to 【C8】______ another stall and then a shop and yet another and so on. He enlarged his specialties, dealing 【C9】______ spurious Victoriana, Georgian silver, trinkets and bric-a-brac, eventually branching out into reproduction furniture and paintings. Without any deliberate intention of doing so, he acquired an 【C10】______ knowledge of the antique business and as time went on, was accounted one of the greatest experts of his time.

【C1】______

A．simple

B．simplication

C．simplicity

D．simply