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 bee 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.that
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(答案→)that
解析：
【小题1】这里含有一个同位语从句，且引导词在从句中不作任何成分，也没有实际意义，故用that。
【小题2】表示因为，故用for。
【小题3】介词之后，用动词的-ing形式。
【小题4】表示为什么，故用why。
【小题5】表示那么大年龄，故用with。
【小题6】这里含有一个宾语从句，且引导词在从句中作宾语，表示“什么的”意义，故用what。
【小题7】表示过去发生的事情，故用一般过去时。
【小题8】用副词修饰动词。
【小题9】no doubts about 是固定用法，意思是毫无疑问。
【小题10】发生在过去的事情，且表示被动，故用一般过去时的被动语态。