If you have a watch, don’t repair it! I know it . Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to it up. The next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: “The regulator(校准器) is to be pushed up your watch is four minutes .”
I tried to stop him, and tried to him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he it to pieces and said that he could finish this work three or four days. I could do nothing but . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest main in the world could not the time by my watch. The thing was getting . My watch had two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy watch, which I did.
A. for reality     B. for truth     C. for certain    D. for certainty
A. kept            B. told           C. observed       D. struck
A. turn            B. wind           C. pick           D. put
A. be turned       B. be taken       C. be put         D. be set
A. as              B. as if          C. when           D. if
A. fast            B. slowly         C. faster         D. slow
A. get             B. persuade       C. make           D. explain
A. gained          B. lost           C. went           D. won
A. had remained    B. had left       C. had stayed     D. had fallen
A. however        B. and            C. but            D. therefore
A. go             B. walk           C. slow           D. take
A. the third      B. the second     C. the first      D. the forth
A. broke          B. took           C. tore           D. cut
A. after          B. before         C. over           D. in
A. to agree       B. agree          C. agreeing       D. agreed
A. taking         B. bringing       C. carrying       D. fetching
A. recognize      B. tell           C. know           D. understand
A. seriously      B. pleasant       C. badly          D. serious
A. spent          B. took           C. cost           D. paid
A. another        B. the other      C. one            D. one more

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