For the country’s growing class of the newly rich, however, a ridiculously high price tag is all part of the package. In recent years, China’s conspicuous (引人注目的) consumers have made the purchase of overpriced wines, which is one of their favorite ways of showing off wealth, in some cases buying bottles priced at several hundred dollars only to smash them on the floor. There is now a new trend that may strike the world’s wine merchants as an even greater outrage. Some Chinese wine drinkers have decided that a good claret (干红) or Chardonnay goes down more smoothly when mixed with Sprite.

　　9．Grape wines become more popular than the traditional rice wine in China for all the following reasons EXCEPT that________.

　　A．rice wine consumes so many grains that its production has been discouraged

　　B．it is believed that grape wine does more good to health than rice wine

　　C．drinking grape wine is a symbol of wealth and therefore is a fashion for some people

　　D．grape wines are often less expensive and so more people can afford them

　　10.The underlined word “frivolous” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”．

　　A．significant

　　B．precious

　　C．authentic

　　D．unimportant

　　11．Mr. St. Pierre and Mr. Carl Crook are cited as examples to show ________.

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