Ⅰ. 阅读下面的短文,从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项
Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug(挖)a hole in the wall of the house.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl(爬行)into the house. “Look! In comes one,” she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him, so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together.” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted, “In come two, catch them!” Then the thieves were terribly frightened. The man in the house said, “You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started running away at once.
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came to the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳)broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, “How they look like the two of last night?” The man said, “I asked you to fetch a rope. Why don’t you hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away quickly without their sweet potatoes.
()1. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because ______.
A. they were found out
B. they were frightened by what they had heard in the house
C. they didn’t work together well with each other
D. mice stopped them from doing so
()2. The underlined word “ploughing” probably means ______.
A. 犁耕 B. 捆柴 C. 宰牛 D. 放牧
()3. From the last paragraph, we know that ______.
A. the two thieves were famous for selling sweet potatoes
B. the woman knew the two thieves
C. the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them
D. the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all
()4. “______” is the best title for this passage.
A. Two Clever Thieves B. Terrible Mice
C. Hit the Mark by a Fluke D. A Clever Couple
()5. Which of the following statements is wrong?
A. The two thieves not only failed to steal things but also lost their sweet potatoes.
B. Whenever they found mice, the people in the house would try to catch them.
C. The two thieves ran away at once, because they thought the woman had seen them.
D. The man let the woman go home for a rope, which would be used for catching the thieves.

【解析】：1. 小偷因误听主人谈论老鼠的话（"In comes one""In come two, catch them"）而以为被发现，两次逃跑均因害怕听到的内容，未被真正发现，选B。
2. 结合"rein broke"（缰绳断了）及"in their fields"，"ploughing"与田间耕作相关，意为"犁耕"，选A。
3. 小偷次日假装卖红薯，因女人说红薯"look like the two of last night"及男人催拿绳子而逃跑，实际主人未发现他们，小偷不知自己未被发现，选D。
4. 主人无意的对话吓跑小偷，属"歪打正着"，"Hit the Mark by a Fluke"符合，选C。
5. D项中"拿绳子抓小偷"错误，缰绳断了拿绳子是用于耕作，非抓小偷，选D。
【答案】：B A D C D