Question

Today Newtown is a clean place, but many years ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs. Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.

The city office ordered every one to kill rats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The city office could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats, either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as many dead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to kill rats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead rats together. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundreds of them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city as before,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. The city officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no more rats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.

1.The rats in Newtown were once ______

A．as big as cats	B．as dangerous as dogs
C．huge in size	D．run into cars there

2.When the city office first ordered the citizens to kill rats, most people ______.

A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

3.A big hole was dug so that ______.

A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.C

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：

1.细节理解题，根据文中语句“The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.”理解可知。这里的老鼠个头很大，故选C。

2.细节理解题，根据文中语句“most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats.”理解可知。市民都非常懒，不愿杀老鼠，故选C。

3.细节理解题，根据文中语句“at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it.”理解可知。市民偷死鼠来赚取政府的奖赏。故选D。

考点：考查记叙文的阅读理解。

点评：本文讲述了发生在Newtown的事件.以前这里鼠疫成灾，政府采取手段来灭鼠。最后将老鼠消灭掉得故事。所涉及的题目都是一些细节理解题。对于细节理解题，只要学生认真阅读，就能很容易的知道问题的答案。