Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house. One of them crawled into the house while the other waited outside.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl into the house. “look! In comes one.” She said to the man in the house. Te 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!” the two thieves were terribly frightened. The man in he house said, “You saw them come in but where are they?” I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started to run 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 before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rope broke and the woman came home for one. 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 of her any longer 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 very quickly without their sweet potatoes
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

From the last paragraph we know that __________.

A．the two thieves were farmer selling potatoes.

B．The woman recognized the two thieves

C．The woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and mad fun of them

D．The two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all

When the woman said “How thy look like the two of last night”___________.

A．she referred to the two thieves	B．she meant nothing
C．she said it on purpose	D．she referred to the two mice

“__________” is the title for this passage.

A．Two Clever Thieves	B．Terrible Mice
C． Hit the Mark by a Fluke	D．A Clever Couple

Which of the following statements is false?

A．The two thieves not only failed to steal things but also lost their sweet potatoes.

B．Whenever thy 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.

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