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— I want to tell you something really important.
B. What's on
C. In a minute
D. That depends
One day my math teacher asked me to help him save back-up copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to 36 the grades for all of his classes. I showed him how to copy files from one disk to another and he 37 me.
A few days later be asked me to help him again, because he 38 how to do it. when I began to show this to him, some students in my class 39 and began to talk among themselves 40 . Later that day, at lunch time, I was 41 by several of them.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades in math? We’ll 42 you…”
I could not believe what I was hearing.I could get paid for something very 43 ." All right.I'll do it." The next day my math teacher 44 me to help him out.When he was not paying attention, I began to change their grades from F's to A's.
I soon became very 45 among my friends.They began to treat me like a god with a magical 46 .I began to change the grades of students.Word 47 quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine 48 I was called into the headmaster's office.When I got there, my teacher was mad, and the headmaster had an angry 49 in his eyes. "I have known you for three years now.I don't want to 50 what your teacher said, but I'm afraid that I must.He has too much 51 , " he said." Do you have anything to say 52 yourself?" he asked.
"No." I said finally.I did not realize how serious my actions had been.I had violated the 53 of my teacher, and the headmaster.And there was no way 54 .I was forced to leave my school.
That was a good 55 for me.
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I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me years ago after mom passed away.
I have mixed feelings about having the clock. I love it because it was my mom’s, but it also holds some bad memories.
You see, it chimes. It counts out the hour and rings once on the half hour. Or at least it used to. Now you never know what number it will ring.
When my mother was at home dying from cancer, she asked for the clock to be unplugged. Hearing the hours count down really angered and frightened her.
Mom passed away. I decided I wanted to get the clock fixed so I could remember the good hours we had with her.
I took it to a local clock shop the other day.
“I know this has no particular value as a clock, but it was my mom’s and I need to get it fixed,” I said to the shop owner.
I went on to describe the problem.
“We get a lot of these in,” he told me. “Here’s what I do. We remove the clock works (机件) and replace it with a battery-operated movement (机芯) that chimes electronically,” he told me.
“You can’t fix this?”
“No, we don’t have the time nor the parts.”
I thanked him and went home. I called a few other places and was told the same thing.
“How incredibly sad,” I told the last one disappointedly.
How incredibly sad that we have become a society that replaces craftsmanship with convenience and easy fixes. We copy the original instead of creating something new. We duplicate (复制); we don’t originate (发明).
Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself.
Each of us is an original, one of a kind. But we find it so much easier to copy another style than to develop our own.
We are wannabes (崇拜别人的人) rather than hey-world-look-at-mes.
We fail to see the real value in who we are, so we spend our lives trying to be someone else.
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A.Because it was a really old and valuable clock. |
B.Because it was the only thing that her mother had left her. |
C.Because it brought her memories of being with her mother. |
D.Because it left the author with mixed feelings. |
A.The parts that the clock needed were electronic. |
B.It would cost a lot to repair the clock. |
C.They had never repaired a clock like this before. |
D.They could only make the clock electronic. |
A.criticize the irresponsible clock shop owners |
B.criticize people who do not value things with a history |
C.criticize people who do not have a creative attitude toward life |
D.criticize people’s ignorance of traditional craftsmanship |