Mrs. Green was over seventies, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the
that 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 policeman in it saw her
a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed
that she would be punished. When Mrs. Green came up to the
, 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. Green 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 against Mrs. Green was
, and her record
unbroken.
| 小题1: | | A．fact | B．action | C．skill | D．age |
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| 小题3: | | A．kept | B．won | C．missed | D．lost |
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| 小题4: | | A．watched | B．chased | | C．followed | D．stopped |
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| 小题6: | | A．sure | B．able | C．certain | D．like |
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| 小题7: | | A．police | B．judge | C．officer | D．captain |
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| 小题9: | | A．cause | B．reason | C．matter | D．trouble |
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| 小题10: | | A．light | B．lamp | C．sign | D．one |
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| 小题12: | | A．speaking | B．saying | | C．talking | D．telling |
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| 小题13: | | A．holding | B．getting | | C．carrying | D．bringing |
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| 小题14: | | A．took | B．brought | C．picked | D．chose |
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| 小题15: | | A．almost | B．hardly | | C．successfully | D．successful |
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| 小题16: | | A．both | B．all | C．neither | D．either |
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| 小题17: | | A．time | B．turn | C．chance | D．job |
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| 小题18: | | A．thread | B．glasses | C．needles | D．needle |
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| 小题19: | | A．dismissed | B．passed | | C．settled | D．studied |
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| 小题20: | | A．was | B．kept | | C．seemed | D．remained |
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