Question

If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker’s unless something is wrong with the machinery. Once I had a beautiful watch. And it had kept perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to wind it up (上發(fā)條). Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be set by the exact time. He examined it and said, “The regulator (快慢調(diào)整器) must be pushed up as your watch is four minutes slow.

I tried to stop him from doing so, but he didn’t listen and pushed the regulator.

My beautiful watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it had left all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.

I could do nothing but take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch at once, but he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I got my watch back from him, it began to slow down. And I failed to be in time for trains, business affairs, and even missed my dinners.

Now I went to a third watchmaker. When I was waiting for him to repair my poor watch, he took it to pieces and said that he would try to finish this work in three or four days. What I could do was to nod my head. After that, my watch went for half a day, and then stopped. So I kept taking my watch from one watchmaker to another. But each watchmaker disappointed me.

My watch had cost me two hundred dollars, but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy another watch, which I did.

1.The writer was sure that ___________.

A. you’d better not have your watch repaired if nothing has gone wrong with it

B. you’d better never have your watch repaired

C. you’d better not have your watch regulated

D. you’d better repair your watch yourself

2.The writer took his watch to the first watchmaker in order to ___________.

A. check (檢查) it whether it kept good time

B. change some parts

C. have it set by the exact time

D. push up the regulator

3.The watch went faster than it used to be ___________.

A. after it was repaired

B. before it was repaired

C. during the time when it was being repaired

D. if it was repaired

4.Not long after his watch was regulated, he ___________ for the second time.

A. regulated it B. set it

C. repaired it D. had it repaired

5.The writer decided to buy another watch because ___________.

A. he would not spend more money on repairs

B. he didn’t like the old one

C. a new watch could keep good time

D. he had spent two hundred dollars on repairs

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.A

【解析】

試題分析：故事講述的是"一塊精美、走時準確手表最終成為廢物"的全過程。

1.A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker’s unless something is wrong with the machinery如果你有塊表，如果沒有什么毛病，否則不要去修，故選A項。

2.C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到But one night it happened that I forgot to wind it up (上發(fā)條). Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be set by the exact time.我忘記上發(fā)條，我想讓它走得更準確點，故選C項。

3.A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段提到My beautiful watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day.可知走得快了，故選A項。

4.D 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段提到I could do nothing but take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch at once, but he asked me to come in a week’s time.我第二次送到手表店去修，故選D項。

5.A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段提到My watch had cost me two hundred dollars, but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy another watch, which I did這塊表本來200美元買的，我修表花了200美元，最后我決定買塊新的，故選A項。

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