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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 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 very quickly without their sweet potatoes.
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
2. From the last paragraph, we know that _____.
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
3. The woman said, "How they look like the two of last night." Here"the two" refers to _____.
A. the two thieves
B. nothing
C. the mice
D. the sweet potatoes
