If you have a watch, don't repair it! I know it 36 . Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch 37 perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to 38 it up. Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to 39 by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: "The regulator (校准器) is to be pushed up 40 your watch is four minutes 41 ."
I tried to stop him, tried to 42 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 43 faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it 44 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 45 he asked me to come in a week's time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to 46 down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to 47 watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he 48 it to pieces and said that he could finish this work 49 three or four days. I could do nothing but 50 . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept 51 my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not 52 the time by my watch. The thing was getting 53 . My watch had 54 two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy 55 watch, which I did.
36．A．for reality B．for truth C．for certain D．for certainty
37．A．kept B．told C．observed D．struck
38．A．turn B．wind C．pick D．put
39．A．be turned B．be taken C．be put D．be set
40．A．as B．as if C．when D．if
41．A．fast B．slowly C．faster D．slow
42．A．get B．persuade C．make D．explain
43．A．gained B．lost C．went D．won
44．A．had remained B．had left C．had stayed D．had fallen
45．A．however B．and C．but D．therefore
46．A．go B．walk C．slow D．take
47．A．the third B．the second C．the first D．the fourth
48．A．broke B．took C．tore D．cut
49．A．after B．before C．over D．in
50．A．to agree B．agree C．agreeing D．agreed
51．A．taking B．bringing C．carrying D．fetching
52．A．recognize B．tell C．know D．understand
53．A．seriously B．pleasant C．badly D．serious
54．A．spent B．took C．cost D．paid
55．A．another B．the other C．one D．one more
解析：
本文是根据美国著名作家(Mark Twain)马克•吐温的故事改编的一篇记叙文。故事讲述的是“一块精美、走时准确手表最终成为废物”的全过程。选项设计上侧重训练学生的英语语感和词义辨析能力。
36．C for certain“无疑地，确定地”，是一个固定用法，相当于without doubt, for sure；for certainty应为for a certainty才对。
37．A keep time“走时准确”，是习惯用法，tell time“报时”，observe time “守时”，strike表“鸣钟”时，常用结构为“strike the hours（每小时报时一次）; strike 12这种刚敲12点”。
38．B wind sth. up“上（钟或表）的弦；上发条”。
39．D set a clock / watch “对钟；对表；将闹钟等定时”。
40．A as用来引导表原因的状语从句。
41．D 从上文中的be pushed up得知，手表的时间慢了四分钟，而不是快了四分钟。
42．C make sB．do sth. / get sB．to do sth. “使某人做某事”，此题之后接了省to的不定式understand，所以用make。
43．A （指钟表）快(慢)于正确的时间，常用gain或lose。如：This watch neither gains nor loses.这表不快也不慢。go只表示“钟表在走（时）”。
44．B leave sth. far behind“使某事处于落后状态”，A、C、D都是不及物动词。
45．C 表转折，意为：我原指望他迅速将表校对，可是他要我一周后才来拿。However是副词，常用逗号隔开。
46．C slow作动词，slow down“减慢速度”。
47．A 通过上下文得知作者已经去过了两个修表匠，现在要去第三个修表匠那儿。
48．B took sth. to pieces “拆开，拆散”，在这里指把表拆成零碎。broke“打碎”； tore“撕毁”； cut“切碎”。
49．D 介词in表示“从当时算起再过多长时间”。
50．B but前有实义动词do时，but后要接省to的动词不定式。
51．A keep(on)doing sth., 意为“不停地做……”。taking “拿去”；bringing“拿来”； fetching“去拿来”； carrying“提起，拿起”，无方向性。
52．B tell the time 指“能够看懂钟表上的时间；看钟表等而说出时间”。不要受中文影响而错用understand。
53．D get 是连系动词，其后要接形容词作表语，可排除A、C，再从逻辑上分析，可排除B项。
54．C cost表示“某物花费多少钱”，有“等价交换”之意。
55．A another表示“另一个（与之不同的一个）”；the other表“两个当中的另一个”；one表“数量（一个）”；one more“买了一个不够，还要再买一个”。
