Mr. Cronin has a clock shop in the center of the town. He tries his best to
36 it well. He often receives the customers(顾客)
37 and people like to buy
38 in his shop.
It was a cold day and
39 people would go out to do some _
40_. Mr. Black, one of Mr. Cronin’s_
41_, came to the shop. He knew the man was_
42_ his miserliness (吝啬). But he tried to persuade (说服) him to buy a watch in his shop.
“You’d better buy a watch for
43 _, Mr. Black,” said Mr. Cronin. “It’ll be _
44_ to you whenever.”
“No, no,” said Mr. Black. “I’ll _
45_need any watches.”
“But how do you know when it’s time to _
46_?”
“The people who live around me always
_47_ their televisions at seven for the news. So I can hear 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 _
48_,” Mr. Black said with a smile. “It takes me ten minutes to _
49_ 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 _
50_ working.”
“When do you _
51_ your office, then?”
“There’s a _
52_ near it, its siren(汽笛) can tell me the right time.”
“How do you know the time if you _
53_ in the middle of the night?”
“I always put a stick by my bed”
“But a stick can’t tell you the time”
“You’re _
54_. But I can use it to knock on your wall. You always _
55_, “What are you knocking on my wall for at two in the night?”
小题1:A. watch B. manage C. build D repair
| 小题2: | | A．coldly | B．luckily | C．simply | D．warmly |
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小题3:A. something B. everything C nothing D. anything
| 小题4: | | A．many | B．most | C．plenty of | D．few |
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| 小题5: | | A．work | B．reading | C．shopping | D．fishing |
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| 小题6: | | A．neighbors | B．friends | C．classmates | D．workmates |
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| 小题7: | | A．good at | B．famous for | C．proud of | D．fond of |
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| 小题8: | | A．you | B．me | C．yourself | D．myself |
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| 小题9: | | A．helpful | B．helpless | C．necessary | D．important |
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| 小题10: | | A．always | B．sometimes | C．never | D．often |
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| 小题11: | | A．get up | B．go to bed | C．go to work | D．have breakfast |
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| 小题12: | | A．show | B．turn on | C．turn off | D．sell out |
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| 小题13: | | A．easy | B．possible | C．different | D．probable |
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| 小题15: | | A．finish | B．enjoy | C．keep | D．start |
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| 小题16: | | A．clean | B．leave | C．go to | D．find |
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| 小题17: | | A．railway station | B．post office | C．university | D．factory |
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| 小题18: | | A．sit up | B．wake up | C．stand up | D．get up |
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| 小题19: | | A．clever | B．right | C．wrong | D．foolish |
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| 小题20: | | A．shout | B．wonder | C．laugh | D．request |
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