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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 (吹嘘) of the fact   71    she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished   72     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    73  (stop). When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her __74__(serious) and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason    75    she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so 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   76   (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 ___77__ the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is   78   (you) turn. I suppose you can drive a 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 ___79___(success). The case against Ms. Mary    80   (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken. 答案：71. that    72.  for     73. stopping      74. seriously     75. why     76. chose    77. both      78. your     79.succeeded       80 was dismissed

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