任务型阅读（共5小题）
阅读短文，并按要求完成1-5题。
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, a president, 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 0industry has become an accessory business (配件业) in recent years.
Today’s ______ offer a lot of uses that meet the need of almost any personality (个性). They can be used as compasses (指南针), 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.
1.Many young people agree that it’s unnecessary to _____________.
2.When do watches get popular again according to watchmakers ?
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3.Fill in the missing word.
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4.Find and write the topic sentence of the whole passage
___________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.
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【答案】
1.wear a watch/wear watches
2.When people reach their 20s and 30s, watches get popular again.
3. watches
4. A watch has become more important than the time it tells.
5. 人们一直/总是在努力创造/设计/制造新型/种类的手表。
【王老师翻译小课堂助你理解】
在今天的移动电话世界里，大多数人都至少有一个计时工具。既然这些小机器如此普遍，人们会不会停止佩戴具有500年历史的手表呢?根据一些人的说法，是的。一位十几岁的青少年说，戴手表没有必要。许多年轻人同意这一观点，并且用他们的手机来报时。首席执行官路易斯•加莉(Louis Galie)表示，如今戴手表的年轻人比五年前少了。
然而，手表制造商说，当人们到了二三十岁时，手表再次流行起来。到那时，他们想要花钱买一个不仅走得准而且外观也不错的计时工具。出于这个原因，近年来，钟表业已经成为配件业了。5
今天的手表提供了多种用途，几乎可以满足任何个性。它们可以用作指南针、日历，甚至USB驱动程序……
人们总是尽他们最大的努力来创造新款手表。某制表商的商业手表甚至看起来不像手表。他们流行的模型使用不同颜色的灯来显示时间。另一家制表商行，制作一款“无指针”手表，借助一圈又一圈来计时。这只表使人们对现代手表议论纷纷。
无论手表是否表达了时尚感、热爱运动的创意能力，人们都希望自己的计时工具美观、时尚、实用。总之，手表已经变得比它显示的时间更重要了。
【答案解析】
1.答案可以从第一段中间即可轻松找到答案。
2.“ When do watches get popular again according to watchmakers ?”答案可以在第二段中找到。
3.联系上下文即可将文中横线处空缺的一个单词填写在答题纸上。
4.让找出并写出全文的主题句。一般情况下，要找全文主旨句，我们先来看一看第一段和尾段的第一句和最后一句，当这里面没有时再快速扫描其它段落。
5.汉译英
【总结】
这道任务型阅读难度一般，但是所涉及到的话题比较新颖。
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