I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me years ago af

I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dadgave it to me years ago after mom passed away.

I have mixed feelings about having the clock. I loveit because it was my mom’s, but it also holds some bad memories.

You see, it chimes. It counts out the hour and ringsonce on the half hour. Or at least it used to. Now you never know what numberit will ring.

When my mother was at home dying from cancer, sheasked for the clock to be unplugged. Hearing the hours count down reallyangered and frightened her.

Mom passed away. I decided I wanted to get the clockfixed 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, butit 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 Ido. We remove the clock works (机件) and replace it with abattery-operated movement (机芯) that chimeselectronically,” 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 otherplaces and was told the same thing.

“How incredibly sad,” I told the last onedisappointedly.

How incredibly sad that we have become a society thatreplaces craftsmanship with convenience and easy fixes. We copy the originalinstead of creating something new. We duplicate (复制); wedon’t originate (发明).

Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself.

Each of us is an original, one of a kind. But we findit so much easier to copy another style than to develop our own.

We are wannabes (崇拜别人的人) ratherthan hey-world-look-at-mes.

We fail to see the real value in who we are, so wespend our lives trying to be someone else.

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

A．Because itwas a really old and valuable clock.

B．Because itwas the only thing that her mother had left her.

C．Because itbrought her memories of being with her mother.

D．Because itleft the author with mixed feelings.

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

A．The partsthat the clock needed were electronic.

B．It would costa lot to repair the clock.

C．They hadnever repaired a clock like this before.

D．They couldonly make the clock electronic.

3. The author intends to ________.

A．criticize theirresponsible clock shop owners

B．criticizepeople who do not value things with a history

C．criticizepeople who do not have a creative attitude toward life

D．criticizepeople’s ignorance of traditional craftsmanship

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【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.C 

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