If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker...

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

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_____ you have worked out the first problem, you may go on to work on the second.

A．Even if            B．Unless            C．Now that          D．Though

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You should not go rafting ________ you know how to swim.

A．if                B．if not             C．when             D．unless

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_____ I don’t want to go to the cinema.

_____I ________go _________-.

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Do you like going to a theater to watch live performances? If you do, I’m not alone.

Live performances at theaters interest different groups of people from rich people to office workers. If you go to any theater and look at its audience, you will find it is made up of teenagers, the elderly and anyone in between. One part of it is due to the marketing and the show itself. For example, Hair isn’t going to interest the same audience as My Fair Lady. Another part of it is due to the area in which you live. The Palace Theater in Manchester, for example, interests a more urban (城市的）crowd than the Leddy Center in Epping. All of these people have an interest in the magic of live performances and they go to the theater for different reasons.

There is nothing better than live theatre performances to increase your cultural awareness (意识) When you go to see a live theater performance, no matter whether it is a musical or a play, you are improving your knowledge of the world around you. Some people go to the theater to have fun and escape their troubles; others, particularly rich people, go to the theater to develop their knowledge of the world around them. Both of them are very good reasons for going to see live theater performances. However, personally, I often go to the theater more to have fun than anything else.

Everyone has the right to enjoy any performance, whether it’s a world-famous performance by the New Hampshire Ballet or a second-rate performance by your local community theater. The main thing to remember is whether you are there to heighten your awareness of the culture or to get away from your problems. You should appreciate the performance for what it is, because too many people these days don’t know enough about the arts.

1.What does the author mean by saying she is not alone?

A. She no longer feels lonely.

B. She loves watching popular performances.

C. She often visits a theater with a friend.

D. She likes going to the theater.

2.The example of Hair and My Fair Lady shows that______.

A. many shows have a lot in common

B. some shows are better than others

C. not all shows are attractive to the audience

D. different shows interest different people

3.According to the author, going to the theater is helpful because of the following reasons EXCEPT______.

A. improving the ability to read others’ feelings

B. being a way of learning something

C. being a way of entertainment

D. improving people’s understanding of their own or other cultures

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．Well, if watching TV or seeing a film doesn’t______ to you, how about going hiking, instead?

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---- Are you going to the cinema this evening?

---- If you don’t go, __________________.

A. neither do I        B. Nor will I         C. So will I          D. So do I

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About once a month I have to go to Bedford for my work. One day I went into a 21 there to have something to 22 . The waiter took my coat and put it in a small room.

About an hour later I was 23 to go. The waiter 24 me my coat. Something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. I took a 25 look at the 26 . “Oh, you’ve brought 27 coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,28 it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.”

“Oh, then I 29 someone has taken your coat and left his,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing 30 sometimes.”

I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold 31 in it. The waiter and I 32 to go to the police station.

“Has anyone lost a ring?” I asked at the station.

“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in London.”

He 33 the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.

“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I 34 you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and 35 I lost it on the train!”

After I told him the 36 of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel, so how did my ring 37 in the coat?”

“Did anyone sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.

“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”

“You may remember this 38 ,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”

“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here isn’t the thief.”

The policeman laughed. “No,” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and 39 our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the 40 coat away with him.”

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—A new film will be on tonight. Will you go to see it?

—If you don’t go , ________.

A. so do I          B. nor do I         C. so will I        D. neither will I

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.

---- My watch is out of order.

---- Then why don’t you have ____?

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