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 (犯規(guī)，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?yàn)閠hat 引導(dǎo)的是一個(gè)同位語從句。

2．D．for表示被懲罰的原因。

3．D．她始終保持著記錄，但那天她差點(diǎn)兒丟了這個(gè)記錄，因?yàn)樗�闖了紅燈。

4．C．警車跟在她后面，用followed，而watched不妥，因?yàn)橹髡Z是警車，而不是人。ran after 也不對，警車在此之前沒理由追趕她。

5．A．pass a red light，而用go 則要說go by。

6．C．用certain，不用sure，因?yàn)閟ure 常用人作主語。

7．D．此處came為瞬間動詞，不能用while。

8．C．這是too…to結(jié)構(gòu)，表示太…而不…

9．B．reason是說明某事某現(xiàn)象的理由，而cause 則指火災(zāi)、水災(zāi)或事故的起因。

10．A．紅燈，用red light。

11．A．with此處相當(dāng)于because of。

12．B．強(qiáng)調(diào)說話的內(nèi)容用say，指說話的動作或講某種語言用speak。

13．C．表示隨身攜帶，不強(qiáng)調(diào)方向性，用carry，而bring則表示由遠(yuǎn)往近帶來。

14．D．此處是挑了一根小眼的針，如用took, brought和pick都要加up或out。

15．C．從下文看，老太太顯然是成功了。

16．A．指針和線兩者，所以用both。

17．B．your turn表示該輪到你了。

18．D．為什么是針呢？因?yàn)楹筮呌幸痪湔f她要thread it。

19．A．be dismissed被取消了。

20．D．remained表示過去是這樣，現(xiàn)在仍保持這一狀態(tài)。seemed，語氣不夠肯定。kept此處應(yīng)用was kept。