Multiple-choice cloze
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.
In a cramped workshop above a bakery, Tomasz Wierzbicki has spent forty years bringing damaged violins back to life. Some arrive in a state, their bodies cracked and their necks snapped in two; others merely need their tone coaxing back after decades of in an attic. Wierzbicki is under no about the limits of his craft. 'You cannot make a mediocre instrument great,' he says, 'but you can certainly make a great one mediocre if you are careless.' He has little for restorers who strip away old varnish in search of a showroom gleam, arguing that every scratch tells part of an instrument's story. His own approach is painstakingly slow: a single repair may weeks of gluing, clamping and waiting. Clients are sometimes taken by the bill, but few complain once they hear the result. Visitors are struck by the hundreds of tools that every wall, many of them made by Wierzbicki himself, each with a particular repair in .
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