文章大意:这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了八十多岁的琼斯夫人开车很快,但在她的驾驶生涯中从未因违反驾驶规定而受到处罚。一次,她闯了红灯,法官认为她年龄大了,视力下降,不能开车,但琼斯夫人用自己的穿针技巧证明了自己的视力,最终对她的指控被驳回。
1 . 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 ________ 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 __________ and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was __________, and her record __________ unbroken.
1. A.which | B.that | C.when | D.this |
2. 3. A.kept | B.lost | C.missed | D.won |
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.When | D.Until |
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 |
16. A.all | B.both | C.neither | D.either |
17. A.turn | B.time | C.chance | D.job |
18. A.thread | B.glasses | C.needles | D.needle |
19. A.dismissed | B.passed | C.settled | D.studied |
20. A.was | B.kept | C.seemed | D.remained |