Ⅰ.阅读理解
Andrea Cammelleri woke up, looked out the front window of her house in West Jefferson, Ohio, and panicked.Her Ford Ranger, which had been parked on the street the night before, was gone.
She called 911, but was told, “It was held for overtime parking.”Cammelleri was confused.There weren't any “No Parking” signs posted along the roadside.Her truck was licensed and drivable.Plus, she'd been parking it on the street nearly every day and night since she'd moved into her home two and a half years earlier.
Later, when a police officer sent the ticket, she found she'd been fined D|S120 for breaking a village parking law.She looked it up online.It said that it was illegal to park“any motor vehicle camper, trailer, and/or nonmotorized vehicle” on a street for more than 24 hours. She didn't believe that the law applied to her vehicle.“My truck wasn't a ‘motor vehicle camper’，” she says.
She went to the city office to point out the grammatical error, expecting the mayor to “give up the ticket”．That didn't happen, so she officially fought the law.The village argued that the law did apply, despite the missing comma (逗号) between the phrase “motor vehicle” and the word “camper”．The court agreed, ruling that she had to pay the fine.
She didn't give up.On June 22, 2015, the three judges in higher court generally supported her, which is called“a victory for punctuation”．“According to grammar rules, items in a series are separated by commas，”judge Robert Hendrickson wrote.“Reading ‘motor vehicle camper’ as one item does not produce an absurd result.If the village desires a different reading, it should put a comma between the phrase ‘motor vehicle’ and ‘camper’．”In the end, the village took his advice.
语篇解读：本文为记叙文。一位妇女在收到停车罚款之后发现规定中的一个语法错误，从而赢得了一场官司。
1．What happened to Cammelleri's truck?
A．It was parked at a wrong place.
B．It broke down on the street.
C．It was stolen by a thief at night.
D．It was taken away by the police.
解析：选D 细节理解题。由第二段“It was held for overtime parking”可知，她的车因为停放时间长被扣留了。
2．Why did Cammelleri think the law didn't apply to her truck?
A．She had her license to drive her truck.
B．She lived there for two and a half years.
C．She found a grammar mistake in the law.
D．She didn't leave her truck there for a long time.
解析：选C 细节理解题。由第三段“My truck wasn't a ‘motor vehicle camper’”可知，她认为自己的车不是motor vehicle camper，所以这条法律不适用于她的车。
3．We can infer that Cammelleri________.
A．failed in her first case
B．won the support of the mayor
C．was fined for refusing the ticket
D．made the court admit the grammar mistake
解析：选A 推理判断题。由第四段“The court agreed, ruling that she had to pay the fine”可知，在第一次诉讼中，她败诉了。
4．What is the main idea of the text?
A．A comma makes a woman avoid a parking ticket.
B．A woman refuses to pay a fine for parking wrongly.
C．A parking ticket leads to a change of grammar rules.
D．A court judgment shows the importance of grammar.
解析：选A 主旨大意题。本文主要讲述了一个妇女的车被扣留，她通过发现法律中的一个标点符号错误得以避免被罚款的故事。
