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 (機(jī)件) and replace it with a battery-operated movement (機(jī)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 (復(fù)制); we don’t originate (發(fā)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 (崇拜別人的人) 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.

1. Why did the author decide to get the clock fixed?

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.

2. What did the clock shop owners tell the author?

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.

3. The author intends to ________.

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

 

【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.C 

【解析】

試題分析:文章主要講述了作者想要修理鐘卻被告知只能將其改為電子鐘的故事,并且告訴我們?nèi)松袆?chuàng)意,不應(yīng)該模仿他人。

1.C 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第五段的原文I decided I wanted to get the clock fixed so I could remember the good hours we had with her.即是答案的提示,所以選擇C

2.D 細(xì)節(jié)題。店主的原話是We remove the clock works and replace it with a battery-operated movement that chimes electronically說明他的修理方法是將鐘改為電子鐘,所以選擇D

3.C 立意題。作者用修理鐘的故事告訴我們?nèi)松鷳?yīng)該有創(chuàng)意,而不是一味模仿別人。Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself.這句話便是他對(duì)于模仿他人的人生態(tài)度的批評(píng),所以選擇C

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