完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
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 36 she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 37 a driving offence (犯规,犯法).
Then one day she nearly 38 her record. A police car 39 her, and the policemen in it saw her 40 a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed 41 that she would be punished.
42 Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was 43 old to drive a car, and that the 44 why she had not stopped at the red 45 was most probably that her eyes had become weak 46 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished what he was 47 , Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was 48 and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 49 a needle(针) with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.
When she had 50 done this, she took the thread(n.线) out of the needle again and handed 51 the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your 52 . I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight.”
The judge took the 53 and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was 54 , and her record 55 unbroken.
A.which B.when C.that D.this
A.about B.on C.to D.for
A.kept B.won C.missed D.lost
A.watched B.after C.followed D.ran after
A.pass B.go C.run D.rush
A.sure B.indeed C.certain D.perhaps
A.Before B.While C.Until D.When
A.so B.very C.too D.quite
A.cause B.reason C.matter D.trouble
A.light B.lamp C.sign D.one
A.with B.because C.for D.of
A.speaking B.saying C.talking D.telling
A.holding B.getting C.carrying D.bringing
A.took B.brought C.picked D.chose
A.almost B.hardly C.successfully D.successful
A.both B.all C.neither D.either
A.time B.turn C.chance D.job
A.thread B.glasses C.needles D.needle
A.dismissed B.passed C.settled D.studied
A.was B.kept C.seemed D.remained