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Have you ever thought about how people got to work on time without alarm clocks? Until the
1970s at some places in the UK, many workers were woken by the sound of a tap at their bedroom
window. Who made the sound? It was a man or a woman who held a long pole and walked alone on
the street in the early morning.
They used to come down the street with their big, long poles," remembers Paul Stafford, a 59-
year-old man who was raised above a shop in Oldham. "I would sleep with my brother in the back
room upstairs and my parents slept in the front. The knocker-up wouldn't hang around, just three or
four taps and then he'd be off. We never heard it in the back, though it used to wake my father in the
front."
But who woke the knocker-ups? There was a song like this:
We had a knocker-up, and our knocker-up had a knocker-up
And our knocker-up's knocker-up didn't knock our knocker up
So our knocker-up didn't knock us up
Because he's not up.
In fact, the knocker-ups didn't sleep at night and they slept during the day, waking at about
four in the afternoon. And that's why they were never late.
41. What does “knocker-up” mean?
(A) A person who knocked on doors.
(B) A person who held long poles in their hands for fun.
(C) A person who tapped windows on the streets at noon.
(D) A person who woke people up with the sound of taps at windows.
42. What can we learn from the song?
(A) There were alarm clocks in the UK1970.
(B) Knocker-ups always woke people up on time.
(C) Knocker-ups had their own knock-up.
(D) Knocker-ups couldn’t wake people up on time because they didn’t have their knocker-up.
43. Why could knocker-ups always wake up people on time?
(A) Because they don’t sleep long.
(B) Because they were the people who had alarm clocks.
(C) Because they slept during the day.
(D) Because they got up at 4 in the morning.
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I hope we can meet in another space-time,
Perhaps your hometown, where I may be a visitor.
I might ask you how to get to that famous museum,
And you might be kind enough to show me the way in person.
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