Unit 1 Festivals around the world language points课时作业

I. 完形填空

　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 thirty­five 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. "