Question

　　Mrs. Green was over seventies, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the　　that she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished　　a driving offence(犯規(guī), 犯法).

Then one day she nearly　　her record. A police car　　her, and the policeman in it saw her　　a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed　　that she would be punished. When Mrs. Green came up to the　　, he looked at her seriously and said that she was　　old to drive a car, and that the　　why she had not stopped at the red　　was most probably that her eyes had become weak　　old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished what he was　　, Mrs. Green opened the big handbag she was　　and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she　　a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt.

When she had　　done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed　　the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your　　. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure about your own eyesight. ”

　　The judge took the　　and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case against Mrs. Green was　　, and her record　　unbroken.

1.A. fact　　　B. action　　　C. skill　　　D. age

2.A. aboutB. onC. toD. for

3. A. keptB. wonC. missedD. lost

4. A. watchedB. chased

C. followedD. stopped

5.A. passB. goC. runD. rush

6. A. sureB. ableC. certainD. like

7. A. policeB. judgeC. officerD. captain

8.A. soB. veryC. tooD. quite

9.A. causeB. reasonC. matterD. trouble

10.A. lightB. lampC. signD. one

11. A. withB. becauseC. forD. of

12. A. speakingB. saying

C. talkingD. telling

13. A. holdingB. getting

C. carryingD. bringing

14. A. tookB. broughtC. pickedD. chose

15. A. almostB. hardly

C. successfullyD. successful

16. A. bothB. allC. neitherD. either

17. A. timeB. turnC. chanceD. job

18. A. threadB. glassesC. needlesD. needle

19. A. dismissedB. passed

C. settledD. studied

20. A. wasB. kept

C. seemedD. remained

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.D

4.C

5.A

6.C

7.B

8.C

9.B

10.A

11.A

12.B

13.C

14.D

15.C

16.A

17.B

18.D

19.A

20.D

【解析】

【文章大意】70多歲的老太太開車闖了紅燈, 在警察面前她輕松地把線穿過針眼, 這不僅避免了懲罰, 還使多年安全開車的紀錄得以保持。

1.選A。詞語辨析題。結合句意分析句子結構可知空格后的句子“that she had never. . . been punished　　　a driving offence. ”是她為之驕傲的具體內容, 即與要填入的名詞為同位關系, 故用fact(事實)。action行動; skill技能; age年齡, 都不能與that從句形成同位語。

2.2】選D。習語搭配題。根據句意“她很自豪35年來從來沒有因為違反交通法規(guī)而受到懲罰。”, punish sb. for sth. 由于某事而懲罰某人。

3.3】選D。邏輯推理題。結合上文知道她始終保持著35年來沒違規(guī)的紀

錄, 但下文說到她闖了紅燈, 因此說那天她差點丟了這個紀錄。lose丟掉, 符合句意。keep a record保持紀錄。

4.4】選C。背景常識題。警車跟在她后面, 用followed, 而watched不妥, 因為主語是警車, 而不是人。chase追趕, 根據上下文可知動作發(fā)生在警察發(fā)現(xiàn)她闖紅燈之前, 警車在此之前沒有理由追趕她或阻攔(stop)她。

5.5】選A。邏輯推理題。根據下文的without stopping可知她pass a red light(闖紅燈), 如用go, 則要用go by。

6.6】選C。習語搭配題。此處缺少表語形容詞, 因為主語為it, 相當于it is certain that句式, 故用certain, 不用sure, able, 因為sure, able常以人作主語; like一般不用于這一句式。

7.7】選B。詞匯復現(xiàn)題。根據下文第三段的內容可知對她的行為及年齡做出評論的是the judge, 故選B項。

8.8】選C。習語搭配題。根據句意“她年紀太大了不能再開車了”可知這里是too. . . to. . . 結構, 表示“太……而不能……”。

9.9】選B。詞語辨析題。reason是說明某事或某現(xiàn)象的理由, 而cause則指火災、水災或事故的起因。此處在考查固定句式: the reason why. . . is that. . . ……的原因是……。

10.0】選A。詞匯復現(xiàn)題。根據上文可知她沒有在紅燈時停下來。“紅燈”用red light。

11.1】選A。邏輯推理題。根據句意“由于年齡老了, 她的視力不行了�！笨芍�選表示原因的介詞, 解釋引起前面形容詞weak的原因要用介詞with, 此處相當于because of。

12.2】選B。邏輯推理題。在賓語從句中what很顯然作的是動詞的賓語, 可排除speak, 因為講某種語言時它才是及物動詞; 強調說話的內容用say。

13.3】選C。詞語辨析題。根據句意可知她拿出了隨身攜帶的手提包。表示隨身攜帶, 不強調方向性, 用carry, 而bring則表示由遠往近帶來。

14.4】選D。詞語辨析題。此處是挑了一根小眼的針, 用took, brought和picked都要加up或out。

15.5】選C。邏輯推理題。從下文內容來看, 老太太顯然是成功了。修飾動詞用副詞。

16.6】選A。詞語辨析題。根據句意可知此處指針和線兩者, 所以用both。

17.7】選B。習語搭配題。it’s your turn表示輪到你了。很顯然老太太想讓警察穿針來證明她眼神很好。

18.8】選D。詞匯復現(xiàn)題。根據后面說他要thread it, 可知他要把線穿過針眼。剛談過針線之事。

19.9】選A。邏輯推理題。根據警察和老太太穿針的對比, 證明了警察的結論是錯誤的, 所以警察的指控是錯誤的, 故老太太的案子被取消了。be dismissed被取消了。

20.20】選D。邏輯推理題。根據文章內容可知老太太的35年未違規(guī)的紀錄仍然沒被打破。remained“依然是”, 表示過去是這樣, 現(xiàn)在仍然保持這一狀態(tài)。seemed語氣不夠肯定; kept此處應用was kept。