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   36   she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished   37  a driving offence (犯規(guī)，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（縫紉）. Without saying a word, she 49   a needle （針）with a very small eye, and threaded（穿針） it at her first attempt.

When she had   50  done this, she took the thread （線）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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. A. speaking          B. saying              C. talking               D. telling

48. A. holding           B. getting             C. carrying              D. bringing

49. A. took               B. brought           C. picked                 D. chose

50. A. almost            B. hardly             C. successfully         D. successful

51. A. both              B. all                  C. neither                D. either

52. A. time              B. turn                C. chance                 D. job

53. A. thread           B. glasses            C. needles                D. needle

54. A. dismissed      B. passed              C. settled                D. studied

55. A. was              B. kept                C. seemed                D. remained

Answer 1

36．C．fact后接that, 因為that 引導(dǎo)的是一個同位語從句。

37．D．for表示被懲罰的原因。

38．D．她始終保持著記錄，但那天她差點兒丟了這個記錄，因為她闖了紅燈。

39．C．警車跟在她后面，用followed，而watched不妥，因為主語是警車，而不是人。ran after 也不對，警車在此之前沒理由追趕她。

40．A．pass a red light，而用go 則要說go by。

41．C．用certain，不用sure，因為sure 常用人作主語。

42．D．此處came為瞬間動詞，不能用while。  43．C．這是too…to結(jié)構(gòu)，表示太…而不…

44．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。

45．A．紅燈，用red light。     46．A．with此處相當(dāng)于because of。

47．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。

48．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。

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

50．C．從下文看，老太太顯然是成功了。    51．A．指針和線兩者，所以用both。

52．B．your turn表示該輪到你了。    53．D．為什么是針呢？因為后邊有一句說她要thread it。                    54．A．be dismissed被取消了。

55．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。