3 . 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 offence (犯规，犯法). Then one day she nearly
____ her record. A police car
____ her, and the policemen in it saw her
____a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed
____ that she would be punished
____Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was
____ old to drive a car, and that the
____why she had not stopped at the red
____ was most probably that her eyes had become weak
____ 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 with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. 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 turn. 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 (案例) against Mrs. Jones was dismissed, and her record remained unbroken.
1. | A．which | B．when | C．that | D．this |
2. 3. | A．kept | B．won | C．missed | D．lost |
4. | A．watched | B．after | C．followed | D．ran after |
5. 6. | A．sure | B．indeed | C．certain | D．perhaps |
7. | A．Before | B．While | C．Until | D．When |
8. 9. | A．cause | B．reason | C．matter | D．trouble |
10. 11. 12. | A．speaking | B．saying | C．talking | D．telling |
13. | A．holding | B．getting | C．carrying | D．bringing |
14. | A．took | B．brought | C．picked | D．chose |
15. | A．almost | B．hardly | C．successfully | D．successful |
