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　　Questions are based on the following passage.

 

　　In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled hatnews reports hailed as the world's most expensive wrist watch--a timepiece (钟表计时器) entrusted with 1,282 diamonds, including six stones that weighed more han threecarats ( 克拉 ) apiece. It took 17 workers 14 months to set all the tones in the one-of-a-kind timepiece. The price tag? Five million dollars. The

 

　　company's president, Jean-ClaudeBiver, told the reporter that it'd be hard to ake a pricier watch than this one, given that "thesurface of a watch is imited" and there just isn't much room for more bling.

　　Hublot's over-the-top ( 奢侈的 ) watch is an elegant piece of wrist candy, to e sure,even if you wouldn't dare to wear it on the street without an armed scort. But if you'reconcerned about actually using a watch to tell time, this ne probably isn't that great of achoice, since there's so much glitter on the ace that the positions of the hour, minute andsecond hands are tough to iscern. Also, there's no digital display and no stopwatch mode,so it wouldn't e very useful if you want to keep track of your pace when you go for ajog in he park. In comparison, a humble Timex Ironman T5E321, the sort of watch youcan urchase on Amazon.com for as little as $47, can do all of that and far more. It as aback-lit ( 背光 ) display that you can read clearly even at night, and if ou're a traveler,you can set it to flip between two different time zones. In a inch, it even can double as analarm clock.

 

　　But most importantly, the $5 million watch doesn't necessarily keep time oreaccurately than a $47 watch--at least to any degree you could discern. In a tudypublished in Horological Journal in 2008, a researcher from the National nstitute ofStandards and Technology used sophisticated scientific equipment to est the performanceof four cheap watches, including a counterfeit Rolex

 

　　purchased from a street vendor for$15. He found that all four were astonishingly precise, to within a few thousandths of asecond per day.

 

　　So for strictly utilitarian ( 实用的) purposes, the answer to the question e'veposed is a simple "no". But "better" is subjective, and people pick watches　for a lot ofother reasons besides telling time.

 

　　What do we know about the world's most expensive wrist watch?

 

　　A.It was unveiled at a jewelry show in May 2012.

 

　　B.It was priced at five million dollars.

 

　　C.It was made by 17 workers for 14 years.

 

　　D.It was decorated with six diamonds.

 

　　2、Why would it be hard to make a pricier watch than the one unveiled by

 

　　Hublot?

 

　　A. There aren't enough precious diamonds.

 

　　B. Watchmakers cannot afford to make a pricier one.

 

　　C. Workers decline to make a more complicated one.

 

　　D. There is hardly room for more bling on a watch.

 

　　3、What does the author think about the most expensive watch?

 

　　A. The watch is not worth that amount of money.

 

　　B. The watch is not safe for people to wear casually.

 

　　C. The watch is easy to be read during night.

 

　　D. The watch is more useful for it has lots of functions.

 

　　4、What does the study published in Horological Journal in 2008 prove?

 

　　A. Cheap watches can also be very precise.

 

　　B. Cheap watches are all counterfeit.

 

　　C. Expensive watches last longer.

 

　　D. Expensive watches are more accurate.

 

　　5、What's the author's attitude toward expensive watches?

 

　　A. Negative.

 

　　B. Indifferent.

 

　　C. Objective.

 

　　D. Prejudiced.

 

　　【参考答案】

 

　　1、B2、D3、B4、A5、C