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.