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   小题1:      she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished小题2:      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 小题3:      (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason  小题4:      she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak       小题5:    old age, so that she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished  小题6:   he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 小题7:          (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had  小题8:   (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts  小题9:    your eyesight.”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary 小题10: (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.