In today’s world of mobile phones, most people have at least one time-telling tool with them. Since these small machines are so common, will people stop wearing the 500-year-old watches? According to some people, yes. A teenager says it’s unnecessary to wear a watch. Many young people agree-and use their mobile phones to tell time. Louis Galie, apresident, said that fewer young people wear watches today than five years ago.
However, watchmakers say that watches get popular again when people reach their 20s and 30s. By then, they want to spend money on a nice time-telling tool which doesn’t just keep a good time. For this reason, the watch industry has become an accessory business (配件業(yè)) in recent years.
Today’s ______ offer a lot of uses that meet the need of almost any personality (個(gè)性). They can be used as compasses (指南針), calendars, and even USB drivers…
People are always trying their best to creat new kinds of watches. A certain watchmaker business watches that don’t even look like watches. Their popular model uses different color lights to tell the time. Amother watchmaker business, make a “handless” watch, using a ring of circles to keep time. This watch makes people talk a lot about modern watches.
Whether a watch express fashion sense, creative ability of a love of sports, people want their time-telling tools to be beautiful, fashionable and practical. All in all, a watch has become more important than the time it tells.
小題1: Many young people agree that it’s unnecessary to __________________.
小題2:When do watches get popular again according to watchmakers?
______________________________________________________________
小題3: ___________________________________________________________
小題4: ___________________________________________________________
小題5:___________________________________________________________

小題1:wear a watch/wear watches
小題2:When people reach their 20s and 30s, watches get popular again.
小題3:watches
小題4:A watch has become more important than the time it tells.
小題5:人們一直/總是在努力創(chuàng)造/設(shè)計(jì)/制造新型/種類的手表。

試題分析：這篇短文給我們講述的是手表的發(fā)展。雖然現(xiàn)在的青少年們不喜歡用手表，但是手表這一個(gè)悠久歷史的發(fā)明物并不會(huì)退出人們的生活舞臺(tái)。很多二、三十歲的人們?nèi)匀幌矚g用手表，而且現(xiàn)在的手表不管是從外形，還是從功能上，都發(fā)生了很大的變化，它已經(jīng)不只是一個(gè)報(bào)時(shí)的東西了。
小題1:根據(jù)短文第一段的內(nèi)容以及A teenager says it’s unnecessary to wear a watch.可知，現(xiàn)在的青少年們都覺(jué)得沒(méi)有必要戴手表，他們可以通過(guò)手機(jī)來(lái)知道時(shí)間。這里wear a watch或wear watches都可以。
小題2:根據(jù)短文第二段中However, watchmakers say that watches get popular again when people reach their 20s and 30s.可知，手表制造商們說(shuō)，當(dāng)人們二、三十歲的時(shí)候，手表會(huì)變得又受歡迎起來(lái)。那個(gè)年齡的人們?cè)敢饣ㄥX來(lái)買一塊好的手表。
小題3:句意：現(xiàn)在手表為人們提供很多用途，來(lái)滿足不同個(gè)性的人們的需求。他們可以用作指南針、日歷，甚至磁盤驅(qū)動(dòng)器。根據(jù)句意可知，這里作者告訴了我們現(xiàn)在手表的很多用途，故這個(gè)空應(yīng)該填watches。
小題4:縱觀文章大意可知，短文的最后一句話對(duì)這篇文章的中心做了一個(gè)總結(jié)，是整篇文章的中心句。All in all, a watch has become more important than the time it tells.總而言之，手表已經(jīng)變得比告訴時(shí)間更重要了。故這個(gè)題的答案就是短文的最后一句話。
小題5:這個(gè)句子中使用的短語(yǔ)是try one’s best to do sth.，盡某人的最大努力去做某事；create是一個(gè)動(dòng)詞，意思是創(chuàng)造，在這里我們可以根據(jù)文意翻譯成設(shè)計(jì)或制造；new kinds of watches，新型的手表。因此這句話的意思是：人們一直/總是在努力創(chuàng)造/設(shè)計(jì)/制造新型/種類的手表。
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