【正文】 other watches. Expensive watches e with extra functions—but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five－pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains。 a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family。 a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.Watches are now classified as “investments”(投資). A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a toy for self－satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up—they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.72．The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they ______.A. have other devices to tell the timeB. think watches too expensiveC. prefer to wear an iPodD. have no sense of time73．It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______.A. people dive 300 metres into the seaB. expensive clothes sell better than cheap onesC. cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive onesD. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell74．What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage?A. It targets rich people as its potential customers.B. It’s hard for the industry to beat its petitors.C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.D. It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.75．Which would be the best title for the passage?A. Timex or Rolex?B. My Childhood TimexC. Watches? Not for Me!D. Watches—a Valuable Collection[答案]作為計(jì)時(shí)工具的手表已經(jīng)被同樣有計(jì)時(shí)功能的手機(jī)、iPod等代替，但另一方面，社會(huì)顯達(dá)卻花大把的錢買名表。手表作為計(jì)時(shí)工具的作用在逐漸轉(zhuǎn)變。72．A?？疾榧?xì)節(jié)理解。第一段說(shuō)，現(xiàn)在人們使用的手機(jī)、iPod等裝置有顯示時(shí)間的功能，因此環(huán)顧四周，你看見(jiàn)的都是沒(méi)戴手表的空手腕。73．D?？疾榧?xì)節(jié)理解。從語(yǔ)境看，第三段開(kāi)頭的“這很荒謬”指前面說(shuō)的，智者知道他們不需要表，可是在我們這個(gè)時(shí)代，很多顯達(dá)，花大把的錢買名表，一塊手表能賣到25萬(wàn)英鎊。74．A?？疾橥评砼袛囝}。從第四段對(duì)瑞士手表的某些品牌的敘述可知，這些名表瞄準(zhǔn)的客戶是那些有錢人。他們戴著這些名表登山，開(kāi)飛機(jī)環(huán)游世界。75．C?？疾橹髦即笠?。本文介紹了關(guān)于手表的一種讓人感覺(jué)荒誕的現(xiàn)象：普通百姓不戴手表，因?yàn)橛捎诂F(xiàn)代技術(shù)的發(fā)展，手機(jī)、iPod等都有顯示時(shí)間的功能；另一方面，富人戴名表，這是財(cái)富和地位的象征。C項(xiàng)形象地表達(dá)了本文的主題：從時(shí)尚的角度說(shuō)，我不戴手表；從名表的角度看，我還是不戴手表，因?yàn)槟鞘沁_(dá)官貴人的奢侈品。Ⅴ.短文改錯(cuò)(共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分)2,000 yuan[答案]76．work→job或去掉work前的a。work為不可數(shù)名詞。77．去掉Because或so。because和so不能同時(shí)使用。78．have→had。此處用過(guò)去完成時(shí)，因?yàn)閐o some part－time work的動(dòng)作發(fā)生在set up my own business這一動(dòng)作之前。79．month→months。此處應(yīng)用可數(shù)名詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式。80．that→which。which引導(dǎo)一個(gè)非限制性定語(yǔ)從句。81．before→when。improve和realize兩個(gè)動(dòng)作是同時(shí)發(fā)生的。82．在lower前面加不一冠詞a。at a lower price“以較低的價(jià)格”。83．other→another。another修飾單數(shù)名詞。84．√85．去掉more，或more→much。better已經(jīng)是形容詞的比較級(jí)形式了。Ⅵ.書(shū)面表達(dá)(滿分25分)(2008全國(guó)Ⅰ)假定你是李華，從小喜愛(ài)大熊貓(panda)，一直通過(guò)有關(guān)網(wǎng)站(website)關(guān)注三年前在美國(guó)圣迭哥動(dòng)物園出生的大熊貓“蘇琳”和她的母親“白云”?，F(xiàn)在蘇琳即將三歲。請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)給動(dòng)物園工作人員寫一封信：1．自我介紹；2．祝賀蘇琳生日；3．感謝工作人員；4．索取蘇琳三歲生日照。注意：；2．可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；3．開(kāi)頭語(yǔ)已為你寫好。Dear Sir/Madam，Greetings from China!________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Yours truly，Li Hua[參考答案]Dear_Sir/_Madam，Greetings_from_China!I’m Li Hua, a student in Sichuan. I’ve been a panda lover since I was a child. About three years ago I was delighted to learn that Baiyun gave birth to her daughter Sulin and I’ve been watching her grow on your website. Now she’s going to be three. I’d like to wish her a happy birthday and to express my thanks to you for your hard work, because of which Sulin and her parents are living a happy and healthy life in the US.By the way, could I have a photo of Sulin taken on her third birthday? Thank you very much in advance.Yours_truly，Li_Hua