题目
题型:湖北省高考真题难度:来源:
had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don"t need one. I have a mobile phone
and I"m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices (装置) tell the time-which
is why, if you look around, you"ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going
down since 2007.
But while the wise have realized that they don"t need them, others-apparently including some distinguished
men of our time-are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling
command shocking prices, up to £250.000 for a piece.
This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap
clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come 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" (投资). A 1994 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 Times.
B. think watches too expensive
C. prefer to wear an iPod
D. have no sense of time
B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones
C. cheap cars don"t run as fast as expensive ones
D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell
B. It"s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.
C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.
D. It"s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.
B. My Childhood Timex.
C. Watches? Not for Me!
D. Watches-a Valuable Collection.
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 When I was seven, my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved i】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
China,
When India had not opened up its markers to the world, I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and
jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now.
Still, her answer surprised me:"Green tea."
As long as I can remember she didn"t even drink Indian tea.
I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her brother,
both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses.
At the turn of the century, China was not really familiar to the average Indian. It was a strange country.
How things change. And how soon.
Now every town of any size seems to have a "China Market". And everyone is talking about China.
The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are done. A minister once
said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment (投资) and such a step would "work wonders
as it did for China".
But it"s a two-way street, I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to
Rangalore to train in software. Meanwhile, all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in China.
No wonder that trade, which was only in the millions just ten years ago, is expected to his about us $15
billion for last year and us $20 billion by 2008, a goal set by both governments.
No wonder, my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian (中印) century as the
two countries started on January I the Sino-Indian Friendship Year.
But what is still a wonder to me is my mother drinking Chinese tea.
B. She had a son working in China.
C. She believed it had a curing effect.
D. She was fond of Chinese products.
B. Tea trade works wonders in both India and China.
C. Chinese products are popular in both China and India.
D. The exchanges between India and China benefit both.
B. It is seeking further development in China
C. It has attracted an investment of US $15 billion
D. It caught up with the US IT industry in2008.
B. his support for drinking Chinese green tea
C. his surprise at China"s recent development
D. his wonder at the growth of India"s IT industry
practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and
DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes-the list goes on and on.
The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was
still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating
from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time
he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was
so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade (升级) and he began charging a fee to members.
Joined by a friend, Peter Skill and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back.
Even in the great.com crashes of the late 1990s, eBay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one
of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.
eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have
to do is uploading an e-photo, writing a description, filling out a sales form and you are in business: the
world is your market place. Of course for each item (商品) sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great
deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of
the items are sold.
B. a website for them to upgrade
C. a place to exhibit their own photos
D. a chance to buy things at low prices
B. To make money
C. For gathering the engineers
D. To fulfill a task of his company
B. was always hopeful
C. did not think about the past
D. became more and more successful
B. By charging for each sale
C. By listing items online
D. By making e-photos
you may be able to throw your wallet away and pay for things with a quick wave of your smart phone over
an electronic scanner.
In January, Starbucks announced that customers could start using their phones to buy coffee in 6,800
of its states. This is the first pay-by-phone practice in the U.S., but we"re likely to see more wireless payment
alternatives as something called near field communication (NFC) gets into America"s consumer electronics.
Last December some new smart phones which contain an NFC chip were introduced to the public.
Already in use in parts of Asia and Europe, NFC allows shoppers to wave their phones a few inches above
a payment terminal-a contact-free system built for speed and convenience. But before NFC becomes widely
adopted in the U.S., a few problems need to be worked out, like who will get to collect the profitable transaction
(交易) fees. Although some credit card providers have been experimenting with wave-and-pay systems that
use NFC-enabled credit cards, cell phone service providers may try to muscle their way into the point-of-sale
(POS) market. Three big cell phone service providers have formed a joint venture (合资企业) that will go into
operation over the next 15 months. Its goal is "to lead the U.S. payments industry from cards to mobile
phones."
The other big NFC issue, apart from how payments will be processed, is security, for instance, what"s to
stop a thief from digitally pick-pocketing you? "We"re still not at the point where an attacker can just brush
against you in a crowd and steal all the money out of your phone," says Jimmy Shah, a mobile-security
researcher." Users may also be able to set transaction limits, perhaps requiring a password to be entered for
larger purchases.
Still uneasy about this digital-wallet business? Keep in mind that if you lose your smart phone, it can be
located on a map and remotely disabled. Plus, your phone can be password protected, your wallet isn"t.
B. The boom of pay-by-phone business.
C. The disappearance of credit cards.
D. The increase of Starbucks sales.
B. collect transaction fees easily
C. make purchase faster and simpler
D. improve the quality of cell phones
B. get a share in the payments industry
C. sell more cell phones
D. test the NFC technology
B. Set up a password.
C. Get all the money out of their phones.
D. Cancel large purchases.
At school, you had been fed cereal laced with radioactive chemicals so scientists could learn more about
the digestive system. Because the food was radioactive, scientists could easily trace its path through the
body.
Scientists now know that exposure to large amounts of radiation can cause cancer, a group of diseases
in which bodily cells grow wildly out of control. Some people who were part of the radiation studies later
developed cancer and blame the radiation for causing the cancer. Others are worried the radiation will
someday make them sick.
Some doctors say that, in many cases, such fears are unjustified because the radiation doses (剂量) used
in the experiments were too small to cause harm. They also say that since the dangers of radiation were less
well understood then than they are now, even researchers who used high doses of radiation didn"t do anything
wrong.
Some critics claim that no excuse is acceptable for not informing subjects about the nature of an experiment
and giving them a chance to refuse to participate. Today, government rules require such informed agreement
whenever a study uses people.
B. whether it is moral to experiment on people without telling them
C. what result can be obtained in a radioactive experiment
D. how radiation studies are conducted
B. As long as the danger of radiation has not been proved, high doses of it can also be acceptable.
C. Most cancers are caused by radiation.
D. Any exposure to radiation will surely cause cancer.
B. to prohibit all the experiments on humans
C. to licence all the tests related to human beings
D. to protect people"s human right not to be tested without permission
B. indifferent
C. critical
D. favourable
arena as a power. However, a series of issues since the beginning of this year, particularly Washington"s
stance on the U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises and the South China Sea issue have made the world
think: Is the United States ready to recognize China as a power on the world stage?
It is easier said than done for the United States to adapt itself to China"s development. Lip service is far
from enough to boost the development of Sino-U.S. relations. If Washington cannot find a way to recognize
and accept China"s peaceful rise onto the world stage, bilateral (双边的) ties will be like a roller coaster full
of ups and downs. However, no one would like to see the negative effects rocky relations would bring to
China, the United States and possibly to the world as a whole.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged China to play a greater role in solving the world"s
economic, environmental and political problems. She said global issues could not be solved by the United
States or China alone, but without participation of the two countries, no problems would likely be solved.
Washington has realized that the United States" global interest can be maintained only through changing the
way it deals with China.
The Obama administration released positive signals in its relations with China, which have been interpreted
as the United States showing its intention to change the traditional strategy of engagement and containment
(遏制政策 ). As a matter of fact, the general direction of Sino-U. S. relations provides a foundation on
which the United States can base its foreign policies and is more complicated than an adjustment in real
conditions. Issues such as arms sales to Taiwan, Google censorship, RMB exchange rates as well as finger-
pointing about economic responsibility show Washington still seems confused and impatient about relations
with China.
The relationship between China and the United States is the most important and complicated bilateral
relationship in the world this century. The development of Sino-U.S. relations will affect world peace and
stability, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Ian Bremmer, an American political scientist specializing in
U.S. foreign policy, said, "America and China will have more than ever to gain from closer political and
commercial ties, and must take steps to avoid a Cold War, or worse."
In that circumstance; the United States needs both wisdom and determination to recognize and accept
China, a country that is totally different from its own, as a power on the world stage.
B. there will surely be a Cold War between the USA and China
C. there are many differences between the USA and China
D. it is wise for the U. S. government to sell arms to Taiwan
B. the U.S. government has realized the importance of China
C. Washington are afraid of China both in economy and politics
D. the United States is ready to accept China as a power
B. opinion
C. ignorance
D. criticism
B. Is U.S. ready to recognize China as a world power?
C. Is U.S. still the most powerful country in the world?
D. Is Sino-U.S. relationship the most important and complicated in the world?
最新试题
- 1计算:(1)5x+4x;(2)-5x2+15x2;(3)6x-10x2+12x2-5x;(4)x3-x2+4-2x3-2
- 2在雷电来临时,电光一闪即逝,但雷声却隆隆不断,这是因为[ ]A.雷一个接一个打个不停B.双耳效应C.电光的传播速
- 3图显示为某国际大都市中心至70千米范围内的近远郊区的卫星城昼间与夜间人口数量。该都市与周边区域的铁路运输系统与通勤车站群
- 4求经过和直线相切,且圆心在直线上的圆的方程。
- 5读图,回答1—3小题。 1、举世瞩目的三峡水利枢纽工程所在的省区是[ ]A、① B、② C、③ D、④ 2、有两
- 6如图所示,在水平面上固定一光滑金属导轨HGDEF,EF∥GH,DE=EF=DG=GH=EG=L.一质量为m足够长导体棒A
- 7赵简子元日放生(8分)邯郸之民,以正月元旦献鸠于简子。简子大悦,厚赏之。客问其故,简子曰:“正旦放生,示有恩也。”客曰:
- 8【题文】阅读下面文字,完成后面题目。(5分)子曰:“志士仁人,无求生以害仁,有***身以成仁。”(《论语》)今吾生之为我有,
- 9I am my mother"s ______. I am a girl. [ ]A. dau
- 10读某中学生到新疆旅游时所写的日记,完成下面题目。材料一: 在新疆乘车沿着山脚下的公路行驶,隐约可见远处天山上的冰川
热门考点
- 1实验室里用加热的方法制取氧气的过程,大致分为以下六个主要操作:①点燃酒精灯,给试管加热;②熄灭酒精灯;③检查装置的气密性
- 2可能存在的第119号元素,有人称“类钫”,据周期表结构及元素性质变化趋势,有关“类钫”的预测说法正确的是[ ]A
- 3The woman made her son _____ finally after she told him some
- 4美国总统威尔逊1914 年9 月呼吁美国人民对待一战要“从思想到行动都应采取不偏不倚的态度”。可是,1917 年4 月美
- 5若方程组3x+y=k+1x+3y=3的解为x,y,且2<k<4,则x-y的取值范围是______.
- 6孟子主张民贵君轻,董仲舒主张君权神授,明末清初的进步思想家黄宗羲提出君主专制是天下之大害。对以上三种观念的理解,其共性是
- 7关于x的方程x2-kx+k2-1=0的两个实数根为a、b,且点(a-1,b-1)在反比例函数y=2x的图象上,求k的值.
- 8设椭圆C的中心在原点,长轴在x轴上,长轴的长等于23,离心率为33.(1)求椭圆C的标准方程;(2)设椭圆C的左、右顶点
- 9下列各组物质中最简式相同,但既不是同系物又不是同分异构体的是( )A.丙烯和环丙烷B.甲醛和乙酸C.乙酸和甲酸甲酯D.
- 10在双缝干涉实验中保持狭缝间的距离和狭缝到屏的距离都不变,用不同的色光照射时,则下列叙述正确的是( )A.红光的干涉条纹