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【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 fromBordeaux—shot up. Today, with demand fromChina 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 1982Chàteau 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. SimonBerry, the chairman ofBerryBrothers & Rudd, aBritish wine merchant, says his firm never buys wines from before 2000 unless they come from its own cellars.BerryBrothers 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 ofChàteau Latour.
What does the author want to tell us by citing the example ofBill 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.
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[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。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>