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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   61    she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished   62     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    63  (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her __64__(severe) and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason    65    she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, ___66___ she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she   67   (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ___68__ the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive    69    car well, and you have no doubts about your eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not ___70___(success). The case against Ms. Mary was dismissed, and her record remained unbroken.

【回答】

1. that                      ping.                  rely      5. why           

     7. chose   8. both              9. a     eeded           

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