四、阅读短文,回答问题
In our town, every third Sunday in a month is full of freshly - cut wood and new ideas. That's when the community centre becomes a Repair Café, run by a group of retired (退休的) engineers and craft - loving teenagers. The DIY workshop has special tables for repairing different objects like clocks, toys and small furniture (家具). Their motto (座右铭)? "We don't fix things—we help you fix them yourself."
Ms Gupta, the 72 - year - old former Physics teacher, organizes the team. Last month, she helped a worried 13 - year - old put back together his grandmother's music box using tooth - cleaning string and a paperclip. The boy's hands stopped shaking (颤抖) when the first sound played.
The club's magic isn't just in repairing objects. When the bakery's oven (烤箱) stopped working before the charity (慈善) cake event, five neighbours teamed up under Mr Okafor's guidance (指导). After working together, they ended up with a working oven and even started a book club. The DIY spirit even fixed something no one knew was broken.
Their cool new plan? A "Treasure Hospital" where people bring broken things that are quite special to them, like a wedding vase (花瓶), a soldier's compass (指南针), a child's first shoes. Each repair comes with recorded stories about why the object matters. These stories now play on the café's first repaired radio (收音机).
As the sign on their window says, "Every broken thing holds two futures—one where it's rubbish, and the other where it's treasure."
前4题每题的答案不超过10个词,第5题的答案词数不限。
1. Who runs the Repair Café?
Retired engineers and craft-loving teenagers.
2. What's the Repair Café's main purpose (目的)?
To help people fix things themselves.
3. What happened after the neighbours fixed the oven?
They started a book club.
4. Where can people hear stories of the special repaired objects?
On the cafe's first repaired radio.
5. What does the window sign mean?
Broken things can become treasures instead of rubbish.
