Question

  

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact _________ she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished _________ a driving rule-breaking.

Then one day she nearly _________ her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her __________a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed certain that she would be _________.

_____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the__________why she had not stopped at the red light was most probably that her __________had become weak for old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was _________, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was _________ and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she __________a needle（针） with the smallest eye, and threaded it at her first try. When she had __________done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your _________. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case against Mrs. Jones was_________. And her record _________ unbroken.

1.A.where B.when C.that D.how

2.A.about B.on C.to D.for

3.A.kept B.won C.broke D.lost

4.A.pass B.go C.nod D.wait

5.A.fired B.taught C.encouraged D.punished

6.A.Before B.While C.Until D.When

7.A.reason B.result C.excuse D.matter

8.A.hands B.ears C.eyes D.brain

9.A.speaking B.saying C.talking D.telling

10.A.inventing B.lifting C.carrying D.making

11.A.took B.brought C.bought D.chose

12.A.almost B.hardly C.successfully D.wisely

13.A.time B.turn C.chance D.job

14.A.canceled B.passed C.mentioned D.studied

15.A.warned B.covered C.required D.remained

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.C

4.A

5.D

6.D

7.A

8.C

9.B

10.C

11.D

12.C

13.B

14.A

15.D

【解析】

文章介绍了琼斯太太喜欢开快车，并且她很骄傲在她35年的开车生涯中，她从没有因为违章而被惩罚。然而有一次她闯红灯，差点被罚，通过和法官比赛穿针，法官又没惩罚她，她依然保持她的记录。

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