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People often like collecting things. Collecting stamps, books, pictures and pens are some common hobbies. I know many kinds of collections, but the strangest is a collection of clocks. My friend Mr. Clock, a short man, has the hobby. He has as many as one thousand five hundred clocks.
There are clocks everywhere in his house. You can see shelves are full of clocks. As there is not enough room for so many clocks, the man has to fill some boxes with clocks.
Although Mr. Clock likes his large collection of clocks, his wife does not enjoy them at all. She complains (埋怨) every day about the work she has to do, for it is not easy for her to clean hundreds of clocks. She also complains about the noise. Each clock keeps a different time. So she can hear the chimes (報點聲) almost any time day and night. There is something even worse. With so many clocks around, she is never able to know what time it is!
小題1:What is Mr. Clock’s hobby?
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小題2:Does Mr. Clock’s wife like these clocks?
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小題3:Why doesn’t Mrs. Clock know the time?
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Answer 1

小題1:His hobby is a collection of clocks. / Collecting clocks.
/ To collect clocks. / He likes collecting clocks.
小題2:No, she doesn’t. / No.
小題3:Because each clock tells / keeps a different time.

試題分析：這篇短文講述的是Clock先生有一個很奇怪的收集愛好，他喜歡收集鐘表，他收集了多達1,500個鐘表。但是Clock夫人不喜歡他的收集，因為她每天要清理幾百個鐘表。而且這些表有不同的時間，她在任何時候都能聽到報點聲，但是她不知道到底是幾點了。
小題1:根據短文第一段中the strangest is a collection of clocks. My friend Mr. Clock, a short man, has the hobby.我們知道，人們經常喜歡收集東西，但是Clock先生的收集很奇怪，他喜歡收集鐘表。
小題2:根據短文第三段中Although Mr. Clock likes his large collection of clocks, his wife does not enjoy them at all.可知，雖然Clock先生很喜歡他的這些收集，但是他的妻子根本就不喜歡他們。故這個題的答案是否定的。
小題3:根據短文最后一段中Each clock keeps a different time. So she can hear the chimes (報點聲) almost any time day and night. With so many clocks around, she is never able to know what time it is!可知，每個表都有不同的時間，因此她任何時候都能聽到報點聲，因此她不知道現在到底幾點了。