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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
Walk into Margaret Okafor's workshop and the first thing you notice is the ticking. Dozens of clocks line the walls, and 1. though they are all running, hardly any of them show the same time. Okafor has been repairing clocks for more than thirty years, yet she still cannot quite put her finger 2. what drew her to the trade. 'I suppose I liked the idea that something broken didn't have to be thrown 3.,' she says. Much of her work involves cleaning and adjusting parts that have simply worn out. But now and 4., a clock arrives that has been neglected for so long that she has to make new parts by hand. Such jobs can take months, and she admits that she rarely charges 5. the work is really worth. Clock repair is not a trade that many young people go into, partly 6. the training takes so long. Okafor has recently taken on an apprentice, however, and is determined to pass on as 7. as she can. 'If nobody learns these skills,' she says, 'they will be lost 8. good.'