Question

 If you have a watch,don't repair it!I know it 1        Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch 2       perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to 3        it up. Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be 4        by the exact time. The watchmaker 5        my watch and said, "The regulator (校准器) is to be pushed up as your watch is four minutes 6      ."

  I tried to stop him and tried to 7        him understand that my watch kept perfect time,but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.

My beautiful watch began to gain time. It 8 faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it had 9        all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.

  What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately 10        he asked me to come in a week's time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to 11        down. And I began to be late for trains,business appointments and even missed my dinners.

  Now I went to a 12       watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch,he 13       it to pieces and said that he could finish this work 14        three or four days. I could do nothing but 15       . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.

  So I kept 16        my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.

  And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not 17        the time by my watch. The thing was getting 18       . My watch had cost two hundred dollars 19        but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I 20        to buy another watch,which I did.

(   ) 1. A. for ever   B. for once   C. for certain   D. for free

(   ) 2. A. kept   B. told   C. observed   D. struck

(   ) 3. A. turn   B. wind   C. pick   D. put .

(   ) 4. A. turned   B. taken   C. put   D. set

(   ) 5. A. examined   B. checked   C. studied   D. observed

(   ) 6. A. fast   B. short   C. ahead   D. slow

(   ) 7. A. get   B. persuade   C. make   D. explain

(   ) 8. A. gained   B. lost   C. went   D. won

(   ) 9. A. remained   B. left   C. stayed   D. fallen

(   ) 10. A. however   B. and   C. but   D. therefore

(   ) 11. A. go   B. walk   C. slow   D. fall

(   ) 12. A. third   B. second   C. first   D. fourth

(   ) 13. A. broke   B. took   C. tore   D. cut

(   ) 14. A. after   B. before   C. over   D. in

(   ) 15. A. follow   B. agree   C. refuse   D. depart

(   ) 16. A. taking   B. bringing   C. carrying   D. fetching

(   ) 17. A. recognize   B. tell   C. know   D. understand

(   ) 18. A. terrific   B. pleasant   C. funny   D. serious

(   ) 19. A. average   B. usually   C. originally   D. separately

(   ) 20. A. decided   B. continued   C. prevented   D. hoped

Answer 1

1. C 这里意为"我确切地知道这一点"。

for certain意为"无疑地，确定地"，是一个固定用法，相当于without doubt,for sure。

2. A keep time意为"走时准确"，是习惯用法， tell time"报时" , observe time"守时",strike表示"鸣钟"时，常用结构为"strike the hours (每小时报时一次) "。

3. B wind在这里作动词，意为"上(钟或表) 的弦;上发条"。

4. D set a clock / watch意为"对钟，校表，将闹钟等定时"。

5. A examine意为"检查"，check意为"核对"。

6. D从上文中的be pushed up得知，手表的时间慢了四分钟，而不是快了四分钟。

7. C make sb. do sth. = get sb. to do sth."使某人做某事"，此空后接了省去to的不定式understand ,所以用make。

8. A钟表快(慢) 于正确的时间，常用gain或lose。go只表示"钟表在走(时) "。

9. B leave sth. far behind"使某事处于落后状态"，A、C、D项都是不及物动词。

10. C表转折,意为：我原指望他迅速将表校对，可是他要我一周后才来拿。however是副词，表转折时常用逗号与句子隔开。

11. C slow作动词，slow down意为"减慢速度"。

12. A通过上下文得知作者已经去找过了两个修表匠，现在要去第三个修表匠那儿。

13. B took sth. to pieces意为"拆开，拆散"，在这里指把表的零件拆开。

broke意为"打碎"， tore意为"撕毁"，cut意为"切碎"。

14. D介词in表示"一段时间之后"。

15. B不得不"同意"他的做法。

16. A keep (on) doing sth. 意为"不停地做.. "。taking"拿去";bringing"拿来";

fetching"去拿来";carrying"提起，拿起"。

17. B tell the time指"能够看懂钟表上的时间"。

18. D get是连系动词，其后要接形容词作表语，此处用serious表示问题严重了。

19. C表"原本"花200美元。

20. A最后只有"决定"再买一块新手表了。