题目内容
第三部分 语法填空(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为5l—60的相应位置上。
Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact 51. she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 52. a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without 53. (stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason 54. she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak 55 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished 56. he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 57. (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had 58. (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts 59. your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary was dismissed(驳回), and her record remained 60. (break).
51. that 52.for 53.stopping. 54. why 55.with
56.what 57. chose 58. successfully 59.about 60. unbroken.