Question

 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.

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

2.The underlined word ‘‘dejected” is the closest in meaning to _______.

A．disappointed       B．surprised          C．irritated           D．excited

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

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.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.A

3.A

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文通過一個寓言故事，詮釋了這樣一個道理，每一件事物都和某一事物有著聯系，正所謂唇亡齒寒。

1.根據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.可知沒有動物在乎老鼠的警告，故選C。

2.根據The rat returned to the house, head down and dejected. So the rat had to face the farmer's rattrap alone.可猜測出‘‘dejected”意思是失望的，沮喪的，故選A。

3.根據But he discovered that it was a rattrap (捕鼠夾）.故選A。

4.根據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的一個道理就是每一件事物都和某一事物有著聯系，故選B。

考點：故事類短文閱讀理解。

點評：這篇文章難度適中，記敘文中有大量的事件發展過程中的細節，包括記敘文的5W（what, who, when, where, why）要素。這篇文章題目的設置大多是推理判斷題，所以解題關鍵在于著眼于全文內容的理解，細細體會其中蘊含的哲理。