Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact 小题1: she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished小题2: a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without 小题3: (stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason 小题4: she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak 小题5: old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished 小题6: he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 小题7: (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had 小题8: (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts 小题9: your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary 小题10: (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.
