题目内容
Classified Ads Business Opportunities
WE BUY MACHINE TOOL COMPANY NYC will buy machine tools. Reply 7832673 | MODERN BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT For sale. Near station. Call Dora 6041360 |
WEST COAST FAST FOOD For sale. Upscale quick food. Most popular in county. Only serious inquiries. Call 3421557 | FAMOUS DELI For sale. Quick takeover and catch the season. Owner will train. Very profitable. Call Rity 2299689 |
WANT TRUCK BUSINESS Doing containers. Import / export, 1 truck or many. Call 3328725 | GOURMET SHOP in the heart of wealthy neighborhood is looking for buyers for this outstanding operation. Call Greg 5755718 |
Aunold Bread Clearwater Flamust SELL some financial possession. Call Walter 5304017 | AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS NOW FOR SALE will talk deal if terms are agreeable. Call Mr Kent 9497221 |
WANT TO OWN A BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT Good location and good service Call Stein 6560232 | If you own a small successful business but have no time for yourself, I am an honest woman looking to become a working partner in your business. Call Mrs Meikle 4783784 |
55. If you want to buy an automobile business, you should call __________.
A. 3421577 B. 6560232 C. 9497221 D. 3328725
56. Whom should Dora call?
A. Mr Kent B. Stein C. Walter D. Mrs Meikle
57. How many selling ads are there in the chart?
A. Four B. Six C. Eight D. Ten
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Below are some classified ads from an English newspaper.
Classified ads FOR DIRECT CLASSIFIED SERVICE CALL 800―0557 10A.M.-4P.M. MONDAY-FRIDAY | ||
FOR COME to moving sale----Plants, pottery, books, clothes, etc, Sat, Dec. 14#----9a.m.-5p.m.1612 Femdale, Apt. I.800-4696.
USED FUT COATS and JACKETS. GOOD condition. $30-$50. Call 800-0436 after 12 noon. MOVING: Must sell. TV21”, $50; AM/FM radio A/C or battery, $15; cassette tape recorder, $10. Call Jon or Pat, 800-0739 after 5 p.m. or weekends.
SHEEPSKIN COAT: man’s, size 42, I year old. $85. After 6 p.m.,. 800-5224. LOST AND FOUND FOUND: Cat, 6 months old, black and white markings. Found near
LOST: Gold wire rim glasses in brown case. Campus area. Reward, Call Gregg 800-2896.
FOUND: Set of keys on Tappan near Hill intersection. Identify key chain. Call 800-9662.
FOUND: Nov.&----A black and white puppy in Packard-Jewett area. 800-5770. | PERSONAL OVERSEAS JOBS---
THE INTERNATIONAL CEMTER plans to publish a booklet of student travel adventures. If you like to write about your foreign experiences, unusual or just plain interesting. Call us (800-9310) and ask for Mike or Janet.
UNSURE WHAT TO DO? Life-Planning Workshop, Dec. 13th -15th, Bob and Margaret Atwood, 800-0046. ROOMMATES FEMALE ROOMMATE WAMTED: Own room near campus. Available December 1st . Rent $300 per month until March 1st . $450 thereafter. Call Jill for details, 800-7839.
MEED PERSON to assume lease for own bedroom in apt. near campus, $’380/mo. starting Jan. 1st. Call 800-6157 after 5p.m.. | DOMESTIC SERVICE EARLY HOUR WAKE-UP SERVICE: For prompt, courteous wake-up service, call 800-0760. HELP WANTED BABYSLTTER―MY HOME If you are available a few hours during the day, and some evenings to care for 2 school-age children, please call Gayle Moore, days 800-1111, evenings and weekends 800-4964.
PERSONS WANTED for delivery work, Own transportation. Good pay. Apply 2311 E. Stadium. Office 101, after 9 a.m.
TELEPHONE RECEPTIONIST WAMTED. NO experience necessary. Good pay. Apply 2311 E. Stadium. Office 101, after 9 a.m.
WAITRESS WANTED:
HELP WANTED for house cleaning 1/2 day on weekends. When----to be discussed for mutual convenience. Good wages. Sylvan Street. Call 800-2817. |
45. Where will you post a notice if you need someone to look after your children?
A.PERSONAL B.HELP WANTED C.DOMESTIC SERVICE D.ROOMMATES
46. A second-hand jacket will probably cost you .
A.$60 B.$40 C.$20 D.10
47. To have your travel notes published, you may contact .
A. Students’ Union B.Gayle Mcore
48. If you want to have someone wake you up in the morning, you may call .
A.800-5224 B.800-5770 C.800-7839 D.800-0760
When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t 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 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.
【小题1】The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they______.
A.have other devices to tell the time | B.think watches too expensive |
C.prefer to wear an iPod | D.have no sense of time |
A.people dive 300 metres into the sea |
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 |
A.It targets rich people as its potential customers. |
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. |
A.Timex or Rolex? | B.My Childhood Timex |
C.Watches? Not for Me! | D.Watches — a Valuable Collection |