A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? But he discovered that it was a rattrap (捕鼠夾）.
Going back to the farmyard, the rat started to give a warning.
The rat turned to the pig and told him:“There is a rattrap in the house, a rattrap in the house!”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Rat,” said the pig, “I can only say this is something terrible to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered with it.”
The rat turned to the cow. But the cow said, “Like wow, Mr. Rat? A rattrap? I am in danger, Huh?”
The rat returned to the house, head down and dejected. So the rat had to face the farmer's rattrap alone.
That very night, a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a rattrap catching its prey (獵物). The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.In the darkness, she did not notice that it was a poisonous snake whose tail had been caught by the trap. The snake bit her.The farmer rushed her to hospital. She returned home with a fever. Everyone knows that a fever could be treated with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his knife to the farmyard for the soup. However, his wife's sickness continued.
The farmer's friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. But she didn't get well. Finally, she died, and so many people came for the last sight that the farmer had the cow killed to provide meat for all of them.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that the whole farmyard is at risk when there is a rattrap in the house.
小題1:From the passage we know that ______.
A．the pig helped the rat get rid of the trap
B．the cow strongly believed in what the rat said
C．no animals showed concern over the rat's warning
D．the snake was killed immediately after being caught
小題2:The underlined word ‘‘dejected” is the closest in meaning to _______.
A．disappointed B．surprisedC．irritated D．excited
小題3:We can learn from the article that _______.
A．the farmer had planned to kill the rat
B．the rat was very clever in avoiding the trap
C．the farmer's wife got good treatment in hospital
D．the rat had expected what would happen to the pig and cow
小題4: What message does the story intend to pass?
A．We should mind our own business.
B．Everything is related to something else.
C．We'd better treat animals in a friendly way.
D．The farmer couple and their friends are all foolish.

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：本文通過(guò)一個(gè)寓言故事，詮釋了這樣一個(gè)道理，每一件事物都和某一事物有著聯(lián)系，正所謂唇亡齒寒。
小題1:根據(jù)The rat turned to the pig and told him:“There is a rattrap in the house, a rattrap in the house!”“I’m sorry, Mr. Rat,” said the pig, “I can only say this is something terrible to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered with it.”The rat turned to the cow. But the cow said, “Like wow, Mr. Rat? A rattrap? I am in danger, Huh?”The rat returned to the house, head down and dejected. So the rat had to face the farmer's rattrap alone.可知沒(méi)有動(dòng)物在乎老鼠的警告，故選C。
小題2:根據(jù)The rat returned to the house, head down and dejected. So the rat had to face the farmer's rattrap alone.可猜測(cè)出‘‘dejected”意思是失望的，沮喪的，故選A。
小題3:根據(jù)But he discovered that it was a rattrap (捕鼠夾）.故選A。
小題4:根據(jù)So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that the whole farmyard is at risk when there is a rattrap in the house.可知這篇文章想要傳達(dá)的一個(gè)道理就是每一件事物都和某一事物有著聯(lián)系，故選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：這篇文章難度適中，記敘文中有大量的事件發(fā)展過(guò)程中的細(xì)節(jié)，包括記敘文的5W（what, who, when, where, why）要素。這篇文章題目的設(shè)置大多是推理判斷題，所以解題關(guān)鍵在于著眼于全文內(nèi)容的理解，細(xì)細(xì)體會(huì)其中蘊(yùn)含的哲理。
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D．buying empty shops
小題4:Boris finally chose an empty shop on a new estate because      .
A．it was not so expensive
B．he had a lot of old customers there
C．he could make good use of his skills there
D．there were good opportunities there
小題5:We can infer from the last paragraph that Boris       .
A．still couldn’t make good profits
B．set off in a successful career
C．found a lot of gold coins by accident
D．had great difficulty running his business

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