四、閱讀短文,回答問題
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 Cafe, run by a group of retired (退休的) engineers and craft-loving teenagers.
A DIY workshop has special tables for repairing different objects like clocks, toys and small furniture (家具). Their motto (座右銘)? “We don't fix things—we help you fix them yourself.”
Gupta, the 72-year-old former Physics teacher, organizes the team. Last month, she helped a worried 13-year-old boy fix together his grandmother's music box using tooth-cleaning string and a paperclip. The boy's hands stopped shaking (顫抖) 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 Okado's guidance (指導). 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 (指南針), a child's first shoes. Each repair comes with recorded stories about why the object matters. These stories now play on the cafe's first repaired radio (收音機).
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.”
每題的答案不超過8個詞
1. Who runs the Repair Cafe?
2. What's the Repair Cafe's main purpose (目的)?
3. What happened after the neighbours fixed the oven?
4. Where can people hear stories of the special repaired objects?
5. What does the window sign mean?
答案：1. A group of retired engineers and craft-loving teenagers.
2. Help people fix things themselves.
3. They started a book club.
4. On the cafe's first repaired radio.
5. A broken thing can be rubbish or treasure.
