单选题 Wine buffs are like art collectors. Few can tell the difference between a well-made fake and the real thing. Yet whereas counterfeit art has been around for centuries, wine forgery is relatively new. It started in the late 1970s when the prices of the best wines—especially those from Bordeaux—shot up. Today, with demand from China fuelling a remarkable boom, counterfeiting is rife. By some estimates 5% of fine wines sold at auction or on the secondary market are not what they claim to be on the label.
The simplest technique is to slap the label of a 1982 Chàteau Lafite (one of the most prized recent vintages) onto a bottle of 1975 Lafite (a less divine year). Another trick is to bribe the sommelier of a fancy restaurant to pass on empty bottles that once held expensive wine, along with the corks. These can be refilled with cheaper wine, recorked and resealed. Empty Lafite and Latour bottles are sold on eBay for several hundred euros.
The margins are fruity. A great wine may cost hundreds of times more than a merely excellent one. Small wonder that oenophiles are growing more vigilant. Bill Koch, an energy tycoon and avid wine collector, currently has five lawsuits pending against merchants, auctioneers and other collectors. His grape-related gripes began in 2006, when he filed a complaint against a German wine dealer who sold bottles of Lafite he claimed had once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The case is unresolved.
"There is a code of silence in the industry," says Mr. Koch, who owns 43,000 bottles of wine and estimates that he has spent $4m～5m on fakes. Some collectors are too proud to admit that they have been duped. Others fear sullying a vintage's reputation and thereby reducing the value of their own collections. So instead of speaking out, "they dump their fakes into auctions or sell them to other private collectors," says Mr. Koch.
Wine merchants and auction houses say they are doing everything they can to filter out the fakes. Simon Berry, the chairman of Berry Brothers & Rudd, a British wine merchant, says his firm never buys wines from before 2000 unless they come from its own cellars. (Berry Brothers stores nearly 4m bottles on behalf of its customers. ) Christie's, an auctioneer, says all the wines it auctions are inspected three times by different people, using detailed checklists for condition and authenticity.
Fear of fakery has not stopped the boom. But the wines that win the best prices at auction are those whose provenance is certain. In May, Christie's sold an impériale (six-litre bottle) of 1961 Latour for $216,000 in Hong Kong. It came directly from the cellars of Chàteau Latour.

单选题 Which of the following is NOT true about wine forgery?
A. It is difficult to distinguish the well-made fakes from the real ones.
B. The sharp rise in prices of wine is the main reason for the appearance of counterfeits in the late 1970s.
C. The increasing consumption of best wine in China has stimulated counterfeits to become more popular.
D. Counterfeits have successfully entered the second market and even some auctions.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查第一段中的事实细节。第一段首句将酒类收藏与艺术品收藏进行比较，得出它们的共同点是难辨真伪，故而A正确；第一段第五句提到“中国对名酒的需求推动了名酒市场的繁荣，假冒伪劣酒也开始盛行”，故而C正确；第一段最后一句指出拍卖会和二级市场上5%的酒与标签不符，证明假酒已经进入这些领域，故D正确。由第一段第四句可知，假酒的出现是由于高端酒价格的上涨，B选项将概念偷换成酒类价格的普遍上涨，扩大了概念，因此B错误。
单选题 It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that ______.
A. the date of production is a significant symbol to assess wine
B. the original corks provided by sommeliers are indispensable to make counterfeits
C. the subscribers of empty Lafite and Latour bottles are probably fake-makers or working for them
D. the price of empty bottles is chiefly depended on the year in which the wine was produced
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查推理引申。由第二段第一句可知名酒的价格很大程度上取决于生产年份，A选项将概念偷换为“生产日期”，概念发生变化，故而不正确；第二段中提到两种名酒造假的方法，调酒师提供的瓶塞只在第二种方法中是必不可少的，B选项扩大了概念；D选项中，酒瓶的价格是由酒瓶所装的酒的价格决定的，而决定酒的价格的因素首先是产地(Lafite、Latour或者其他)，然后是年份，D选项片面地理解了这些决定因素。在第二段的论述中我们可以发现，造假者千方百计地试图得到名酒的空瓶，可以推论名酒空瓶的买家十有八九是造假者或为造假者工作。因此C正确。
单选题 What does the author want to tell us by citing the example of Bill Koch?
A. It's no use filing lawsuits after being cheated.
B. Many wine collectors think it's too humiliating to admit they bought fakes.
C. Collectors should be more vigilant before making decisions.
D. Some victims of wine forgery are also criminals in some sense.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查段落主旨。Bill Koch的例子集中在第三、四段，同绕着酒类造假这个话题进行论述，第三段主要讲Bill Koch的遭遇，第四段主要是Bill Koch的现身说法，揭露业内的潜规则，即买到假酒也毫不声张。由此可见，业内潜规则是作者论述的重点，受害者在知道自己上当之后往往会选择接着去欺骗别人以弥补自己的损失，从这个角度上看，他们既是受害者，又是犯罪者，因此D正确。其余三个选项都只是作者在举例中提到的某些方面而非主要意图。
单选题 What's the main writing technique to describe the actual state of wine market?
A. Comparison. B. Citing. C. Analogy. D. Deducing.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查写作手法分析。作者在第一段运用了类比的手法，将酒类收藏与艺术品收藏进行类比，引出酒类收藏真假难辨的特点；之后运用举例的手法说明酒类造假手段、业内潜规则、酒商及拍卖行的反应以及名酒市场的现状。在说明名酒市场的现状时举了佳士得拍卖行的例子，因此B正确。
单选题 According to the text, which of the following will most probably happen in the future?
A. The demand from China will become an important incentive for wine forgery.
B. The counterfeits will lead to a calamity in the wine market.
C. The collectors will break the code of silence in the industry and accuse the frauds.
D. It will become more difficult for the counterfeits to enter auctions.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查对全文的理解及推理引申。由第一段可知，中国对名酒的需求已经是刺激酒类造假的一个重要因素，这是已经发生的而非将要发生的，因此A错误；由最后一段可知对伪造名酒的担忧并没有阻止名酒市场的繁荣，名酒市场的前景依然乐观，因此说假酒会引起酒类市场的灾难在文中缺乏依据，故B错误；南第四段可知，买到假酒也毫不声张已经成为业内的潜规则，很难得到改变，并且现在没有出现收藏者准备打破这一潜规则的趋势，C选项过于绝对；由第五段可知，酒商及拍卖行表示他们正竭尽所能筛选出假货，因此假酒进入拍卖市场将会越来越困难，故D正确。