Tom woke up in the middle of the night and saw something white in his garden. It seemed to be moving towards the house. 
    "That is a thief!” He thought,and he took his gun(枪) and shot(开枪)at him. Then he went back to bed,
because he was too frightened(害怕)to go out of the house in the dark.
     The next morning Tom went out and saw one of. his white shirts hanging on(挂在)the clothes-line in
the garden,his wife had washed it the day before and hung it out to dry. Now it had a bullet-hole(弹孔)right through middle of it. 
     "My God" said Tom,"I was lucky 1ast night. If I had been wearing that shirt,the bullet(子弹)would have killed me!'' And he called his neighbors together and asked them to thank God for saving(救)him. 

1. At midnight Tom saw _______ in his garden
A. something strange      
B. a thief        
C. something white    
D. a ghost
2. Tom was so frightened that he _______
A. cried out for help            
C. dared not stay in his house
B. may be a thief                
D. couldn’t say a word
3. The next morning Tom found_______
A. his wife in the garden    
B. the clothes-line
C. the thief dead          
D. a bullet-hole through the white shirt
4. He called his neighbors together in order to _______
A. make a speech      
B. tell the story
C. thank God          
D. thank them
5. From the above story we can see that Tom is _______
A. foolish(愚蠢的)  
B. clever      
C. lively        
D. beautiful