A Man without a Watch

Mr. Cronin has a clock shop in the center of the town. He tries his best to  1  it well. He often receives the customers  2  and people like to buy something in his shop.

It was a cold day and  3  people would go out to do some shopping. Mr. Black, one of Mr. Cronin’s  4 , came into the shop. He knew the man was  5  his miserliness(吝啬). But he tried to  6  him to buy a watch in his shop.

“You’d better buy a watch for yourself, Mr. Black,” said Mr. Cronin. “It’ll be  7  to you whenever.”

“No, no,” said Mr. Black. “I’ll  8  need any watches.”

“But how do you know when it’s time to  9_ ?”

“The people who live around me always  10_ their televisions at seven for the news. So I can  11_ the announcer(播音员) say, ‘The time is seven o’clock. Here is the news.’”

“But you don’t know when to go to work..”

“That’s  12_ ,” Mr. Black said with a smile. “It takes me ten minutes to  13  and shave(刮脸). I have breakfast at twenty past seven. I get to the bus stop at twenty to eight and fifteen minutes later arrive at my office and  14  working.”

“When do you  15  your office, then?”

“There’s a  16  near it, its siren(汽笛) can tell me the right time?”

“How do you know the time if you  17  in the middle of the night?”

“I always put a stick by my  18 .”

“But a stick can’t tell you the time.”

“You’re  19 . But I can use it to knock on your wall. You always  20  . ‘What are you knocking on my wall for at two in the night?’”

1. A. watch        B. build          C. manage           D. repair

2. A. warmly          B. luckily         C. simply            D. coldly

3. A. many        B. few        C. plenty of           D. most

4 A. workmates    B. friends          C. classmates        D. neighbours

5. A. famous for  B. good at    C. proud of         D. fond of

6. A. suggest       B. admit          C. persuade          D. support

7. A. helpless         B. helpful         C. necessary         D. important

8. A. always       B. sometimes     C. often          D. never

9. A. go to bed         B. get up         C. go to work         D. have breakfast

10. A. show       B. turn off        C. turn on        D. sell out

11. A. see             B. guess       C. suppose        D. hear

12. A. easy         B. possible    C. different            D. probable

13. A. cook        B. wash       C. tidy            D. rest

14. A. finish       B. enjoy       C. start           D. keep

15. A. leave        B. clean       C. protect            D. design

16. A. hospital        B. post office      C. university       D. factory

17. A. sit up       B. stand up    C. wake up       D. the down

18. A. desk        B. house         C. car            D. bed

19. A. clever          B. right       C. wrong             D. foolish

20. A. shout       B. wonder     C. laugh             D. request

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