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小题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小题3:“______”is the best title for this passage.
A．Two Clever Thieves
B．Terrible Mice
C．Hit the Mark by a Fluke
D．A Clever Couple小题4:Which of the following statements is FALSE？
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.
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:D
题目分析：这篇文章讲了两个小偷与夫妻俩的故事。夫妻俩是在说老鼠，但小偷以为是在说他们俩。
小题1:这两个小偷听到夫妻俩的说话，误认为是说他们。
小题2:这对夫妻是指昨晚上的老鼠和犁地用的绳子，而这两个小偷误认为被他们发现了。小题3:选项C的意思很符合这个故事的内容。
小题4:这人叫他的妻子回家拿绳子，是用来犁地用，并不是用来逮小偷。
点评：本题型考查了对文章段落或某一板块的理解概括能力。先阅读问题，然后带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。在词义与句义理解的基础上，结合上下文总结归纳某一段或几段的大意，对于把握文章主旨，分析全文结构都是至关重要的。纵观历年高考试题，阅读理解试题一般有以下几种题型：一是直接回答who, whom, which, what, where, when, why, how等疑问词引起的细节问题；二是猜测词义题；三是推理判断题；四是综合概括题。在做阅读理解题时，一定要仔细看完，看清楚试题要求再作答，特别要注意NOT，TRUE，EXCEPT等词。有时，要先看题，后阅读文章，带着问题去读短文，可缩短阅读时间，效果也许会更好。