摘要：According to the passage , peple are advised . A.to treat wild and caged parrots equally B to set up comfortable homes for parrots C. not to keep wild parrots as pets D. not to let more parrots go to the wild C When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had amother 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 sonething like that. All these devices 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---apparantly 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 pounds for a piece. This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clthes. 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 colsed 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 piunds’ 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 famoly; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world. Watches are now classified as “investments . A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly 350,000 pounds, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from 15,000 pounds to 30,000 pounds 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 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 pounds beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Times.

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