Question

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   1   she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished   2   a driving offence (犯规，犯法).

Then one day she nearly   3   her record. A police car   4   her, and the policemen in it saw her   5   a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed   6   that she would be punished.

7   Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was   8   old to drive a car, and that the   9   why she had not stopped at the red   10   was most probably that her eyes had become weak   11   old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was   12, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was   13   and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she   14   a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had   15   done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed   16   the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your   17. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”

The judge took the   18   and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was   19, and her record   20   unbroken.

1. A. which           B. when            C. that               D. this

2. A. about           B. on                C. to                 D. for

3. A. kept             B. won             C. missed          D. lost

4. A. watched       B. after            C. followed        D. ran after

5. A. pass             B. go               C. run                D. rush

6. A. sure             B. indeed          C. certain           D. perhaps

7. A. Before          B. While           C. Until             D. When

8. A. so               B. very             C. too                D. quite

9. A. cause           B. reason          C. matter             D. trouble

10. A. light          B. lamp             C. sign               D. one

11. A. with           B. because        C. for                  D. of

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. both            B. all                C. neither            D. either

17. A. time            B. turn              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

Answer 1

1-5 CDDCA 6-10 CDCBA 11-15 ABCDC 16-20 ABDAD

解析:

1．C．fact后接that, 因为that 引导的是一个同位语从句。

2．D．for表示被惩罚的原因。

3．D．她始终保持着记录，但那天她差点儿丢了这个记录，因为她闯了红灯。

4．C．警车跟在她后面，用followed，而watched不妥，因为主语是警车，而不是人。ran after 也不对，警车在此之前没理由追赶她。

5．A．pass a red light，而用go 则要说go by。

6．C．用certain，不用sure，因为sure 常用人作主语。

7．D．此处came为瞬间动词，不能用while。

8．C．这是too…to结构，表示太…而不…

9．B．reason是说明某事某现象的理由，而cause 则指火灾、水灾或事故的起因。

10．A．红灯，用red light。

11．A．with此处相当于because of。

12．B．强调说话的内容用say，指说话的动作或讲某种语言用speak。

13．C．表示随身携带，不强调方向性，用carry，而bring则表示由远往近带来。

14．D．此处是挑了一根小眼的针，如用took, brought和pick都要加up或out。

15．C．从下文看，老太太显然是成功了。

16．A．指针和线两者，所以用both。

17．B．your turn表示该轮到你了。

18．D．为什么是针呢？因为后边有一句说她要thread it。

19．A．be dismissed被取消了。

20．D．remained表示过去是这样，现在仍保持这一状态。seemed，语气不够肯定。kept此处应用was kept。