Question

【題目】 Today Newtown is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats(老鼠) in Newtown. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or woman walking home at night. The rats were very large and they harmed many people.

The Government(政府) ordered everybody to kill rats. Most people were very lazy, so they did not kill them. Then the Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made people very happy. A Government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man brought hundreds in a day.

After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought rats to the Government officer. The Government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the Government did not pay any more money.

【1】According to (根據(jù)) the passage, which of the following is true?

A.In Newtown, anyone who was riding home at night could be knocked down by rats

B.In Newtown, anyone who was at home at night could be knocked could be knocked down by rats

C.In Newtown, anyone who was going home on foot at night could be knocked down by rats

D.No matter when the people in Newtown were walking home, they could be knocked down by rats

【2】Why were the people stealing the rats from the pile?

A.Because they thought the dead rats should be put in a deep hole

B.Because they thought it was a good way to get more money from the Government

C.Because they thought they were not lazy

D.Because they thought they were all poor and were forced to do so

【3】Which of the following is the correct one?

A.The officer ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the dead rats in it just only to save money for the Government

B.Soon the Government did not pay any more money, and there were no more rats

C.The officer wanted to teach the lazy people a lesson, so he ordered his men to put the dead rats in deep hole

D.The officer and his men put the dead rats in a deep hole in order to prevent the dead rats from being stolen and get rid of all the rats in the city

【4】The best title(標(biāo)題) for this passage should be .

A.How Newtown became a very clean place

B.How the people in Newtown became rich

C.How to dill rats in a city

D.Newtown---a rat city

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】D

【4】A

【解析】

本文介紹了紐鎮(zhèn)以前有很多老鼠，政府答應(yīng)人們給每一個(gè)死老鼠付錢。然后把死老鼠埋到一個(gè)坑里。今天，紐鎮(zhèn)變得干凈了。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or woman walking home at night.可知，在紐鎮(zhèn)，在晚上，老鼠會(huì)撞倒在路上步行的人，故選C。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Then the Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat.和The Government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile.可知，很多人從大堆上偷老鼠，是因?yàn)檎�府答�?yīng)為死老鼠付錢，因此有人偷死老鼠，是為了賺錢，故選B。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)The Government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the Government did not pay any more money.可知，那個(gè)官員和他的人挖了一個(gè)洞，把老鼠放進(jìn)去，是為了防止人們偷老鼠，因此除去了城市里的老鼠。故選D。

【4】標(biāo)題歸納題。根據(jù)Today Newtown is a very clean place. Many years ago, however, there were millions of rats(老鼠) in Newtown.可知，本文介紹了紐鎮(zhèn)以前有很多老鼠，現(xiàn)在變得干凈了，因此標(biāo)題應(yīng)為“紐鎮(zhèn)如何變得干凈了”。故選A。

認(rèn)真閱讀題干，根據(jù)題干要求，在文中尋找答案所在的語(yǔ)句或段落，進(jìn)行分析理解，詞義猜測(cè)，推理判斷和概括歸納，選出正確的選項(xiàng)。例如小題2，根據(jù)Then the Government promised to pay some money for each dead rat.和The Government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile.可知，很多人從大堆上偷老鼠，是因?yàn)檎�府答�?yīng)為死老鼠付錢，因此這些人偷死老鼠，是為了賺錢，故選B。