Golden Rules Exam

This exam must be submitted over the web.  You must do the exam on your own, without help from a tutor or as "group work" with one or more classmates, but you should refer to the golden rules handout and the answered version of the quiz as you prepare your answers. Take your time and be careful to follow all the golden rules.

Improve the following ten items (i.e. translate them into acceptable formal English, with particular attention to the ten golden rules).  Type your answers carefully in the boxes below, and proofread closely before clicking "submit" at the bottom of the page.
 
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1) A person shouldn't drive faster than the speed limit says they should, I learned this the hard way. 

2) It was the kind of night when you've got to be crazy to be driving in the first place, dark, foggy, and snow was falling. 

3) That didn't stop me, though, I was on a mission. 

4) You'd never have guessed that before today my driving record was spotless if you could have seen me dodging in and out of the traffic on the interstate through the mountains like I was Jeff Gordon on the last lap of the Daytona 500, and no matter if a person honked or "flipped the bird" or flashed their lights at me because they didn't appreciate me riding their bumpers or changing lanes with blatant disregard for their safety or my own, I still kept on driving as though there wasn't a speed limit, like there wasn't bad weather, and as if I hadn't already gotten a ticket for not having my seat belt buckled, especially since I usually do that. 

5) I saw blue lights in my rearview mirror.  This wasn't good.  I pulled over on the shoulder.  The cop got out of her car.  She asked for my license and registration. 

6) You wouldn't believe how my hands were shaking when I couldn't find my registration.  Like I'd been stopped for armed robbery.  And was guilty. 

7) Even if you're innocent, a person gets nervous when they have to deal with cops. 

8) The officer asked what was my rush.  I said I had to use the bathroom.  She didn't seem to believe me.  A couple minutes later, she did believe it, though, believe you me. 

9) A person always hopes their judge is fair, sympathetic, and best friends with their parents.  Not necessarily in that order.

10) You have to admit, this is pretty silly.