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.