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学利网 学科网( ZXXK COM)-名校独家资料 独家授权,侵权必究! 27. What does the last paragraph mainly tell us? A. Raisa and Gomez have a similar background. B. Gomez has fully recovered thanks to the kidney from Raisa C. It is vital for the donator and receiver to be of the same race. siut Sn 2L ISEC D. The organ from the donator of the same race matches the receiver better no 2UOIm6o 00 2920 C to ajsl b91etso-1is9en 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! have a mobile phone and I'm always near someone with an iPod or something like that All these devices (*r) 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 tof250,000 for a price 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 ss 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