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.

完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分,满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55题各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

If you have a watch, don't repair it! I know it   36  . Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch   37   perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to   38   it up. Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to   39   by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: "The regulator (校准器) is to be pushed up   40   your watch is four minutes   41  ."

I tried to stop him, tried to   42   him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.

My beautiful watch began to gain time. It   43   faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it   44   all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.

What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately   45   he asked me to come in a week's time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to   46   down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.

Now I went to   47   watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he  48 it to pieces and said that he could finish this work   49   three or four days. I could do nothing but   50  . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.

So I kept   51   my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.

And as a result of it the cleverest man in the world could not   52   the time by my watch. The thing was getting   53  . My watch had   54   two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy   55   watch, which I did.

36．A．for reality      B．for truth       C．for certain    D．for certainty

37．A．kept          B．told           C．observed            D．struck

38．A．turn          B．wind          C．pick          D．put

39．A．be turned      B．be taken        C．be put        D．be set

40．A．as          B．as if     C．when      D．if

41．A．fast         B．slowly         C．faster        D．slow

42．A．get                 B．persuade        C．make        D．explain

43．A．gained       B．lost        C．went          D．won

44．A．had remained         B．had left         C．had stayed    D．had fallen

45．A．however     B．and            C．but                 D．therefore

46．A．go          B．walk           C．slow                D．take

47．A．the third     B．the second      C．the first      D．the fourth

48．A．broke         B．took           C．tore          D．cut

49．A．after          B．before          C．over                D．in

50．A．to agree       B．agree          C．agreeing             D．agreed 

51．A．taking       B．bringing        C．carrying             D．fetching

52．A．recognize      B．tell            C．know        D．understand

53．A．seriously     B．pleasant       C．badly       D．serious

54．A．spent      B．took        C．cost        D．paid

55．A．another  B．the other        C．one   D．one more

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