题目内容
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 (上发条). 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 (快慢调整器) 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 (检查) 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
1.A
2.C
3.A
4.D
5.A
【解析】
试题分析：故事讲述的是"一块精美、走时准确手表最终成为废物"的全过程。
1.A 细节理解题。根据第一段提到If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker’s unless something is wrong with the machinery如果你有块表，如果没有什么毛病，否则不要去修，故选A项。
2.C 细节理解题。根据第一段提到But one night it happened that I forgot to wind it up (上发条). Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be set by the exact time.我忘记上发条，我想让它走得更准确点，故选C项。
3.A 细节理解题。根据第三段提到My beautiful watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day.可知走得快了，故选A项。
4.D 细节理解题。根据第四段提到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，故选D项。
5.A 细节理解题。根据最后一段提到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这块表本来200美元买的，我修表花了200美元，最后我决定买块新的，故选A项。
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