题目内容
A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house; there is a mouse trap in the house.” The chicken with her head high, said, “Shut up, Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who said, “A mouse trap; am I in great danger, huh?”
So the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard through the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital.
She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So next time someone is facing a problem, don’t say that has nothing to do with you.
【小题1】We could see from the passage that the mouse was______.
| A．good at cheating others | B．dishonest |
| C．kind and warm-hearted | D．foolish |
| A．The others helped the farmer kill the cow. |
| B．The mouse trap was very practical. |
| C．The pig is more friendly than the other animals . |
| D．The farmer’s family had no friends at all |
| A．Traps can always cause chain reactions |
| B．Sometimes when the least of us are threatened, we all might be at risk. |
| C．It is better to be safe than to be sorry. |
| D．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all. |
【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
解析试题分析：本文是一篇寓言故事告诉我们表面看上去没有联系的事物，实际上都可能联系在一起。
【小题1】C 推理题。根据文章2,3,4段可知老鼠看见危险以后立刻通知其它动物，说明他很善良也很热心肠，故C正确。
【小题2】D 细节题。根据文章倒数第三行so many people came for her funeral.说明这位农民有很多朋友，故D错误。
【小题3】B主旨大意题。文章通过中寓言故事告诉我们表面看上去没有联系的事物，实际上都可能联系在一起。故表面上最不会受到威胁的事物，也有可能出于危险中，故B正确。
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点评：寓言类短文是想通过一个故事阐述一个道理，本文的内容比较简单易懂，考生要注意上下文的串联和细节的理解。
Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl into the house.“Look！In comes one，”she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside，“She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him，so he said，“Let us two try to crawl into the house together.”At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house，too. The woman saw the mice and shouted，“In come two，catch them！” The two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said，“You saw them come in but where are they？ I will catch them tonight.”The two thieves started running away at once.
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein（缰绳）broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said，“How they look like the two of last night.”The man said，“I asked you to fetch a rope，why don’t you hurry for it？”The two thieves ran away quickly without their sweet potatoes.
【小题1】The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because______.
| A．they were found out |
| B．they were frightened by what they had heard in the house |
| C．they didn’t work together well with each other |
| D．mice stopped them from doing so |
| A．the two thieves were famous selling sweet potatoes |
| B．the woman recognized the two thieves |
| C．the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them |
| D．the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all |
| A．Two Clever Thieves | B．Terrible Mice |
| C．Hit the Mark by a Fluke | D．A Clever Couple |
| A．The two thieves not only failed to steal things but also lost their sweet potatoes. |
| B．Whenever they found mice，the people in the house would try to catch them. |
| C．The two thieves ran away at once，because they thought the woman had seen them. |
| D．The man let the woman go home for a rope，which would be used for catching the thieves. |
Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl(爬行) into the house. “Look! In comes one,” she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him, so he said, “Let us try to crawl into the house together.” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted, “In come two, catch them!” The two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said, “You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started running away at once.
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rope broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, “How they look like the two of last night.” The man said, “I asked you to fetch a rope, why don’t you hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes.
1.The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because _____.
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A．they were found out |
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B．they were frightened by what they had heard in the house |
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C．they didn’t work together well with each other |
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D．mice stopped them from doing so |
2.From the last paragraph, we know that _____.
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A．the two thieves were famous selling sweet potatoes |
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B．the woman recognized the two thieves |
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C．the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them |
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D．the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all |
3.When the woman said, “How they look like the two of last night,” _____.
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A．she referred to the two thieves |
B．she meant nothing |
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C．she said it on purpose |
D．she referred to the mice |
4.The best title for the passage may be ____.
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A．Two Clever Thieves |
B．Terrible Mice |
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C．Hit the Mark by a Fluke |
D．A Clever Couple |