One evening two young men were walking in the street together. They tried to find a chance to steal something. The clock struck twelve. Most of people went to bed. Quietly they came to a house. There were no lights in the house and it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Standing at the front door gate, one said in English in a low voice, “You wait here. I’ll go round to the back door and then get into the house…” Suddenly out of the house ran a dog, barking at them. The two men were very frightened and ran away as fast as they could. They dare not stop until they got into a lonely place. The man said: “It’s too bad. I hadn’t expected that the dog could understand English.”
The two young men were ________.
A. workers     B. doctors      C. thieves
There were no lights in the house because _______.
A. the people in the house had been out
B. nobody lived there.
C. It seemed that everyone was asleep.
“One said in English to the other in a low voice.” Here means _______.
A. he knew English
B. he didn’t want to let anyone else understand what they would say
C. both A and B
“Did the dog understand English really?” _______.
A. Yes, it did.   B. No, it didn’t.   C. No, but it wanted to understand.
The dog ran out of the house and barked at them only because ________.
A. it understood English    B. it heard them talking    C. the two men frightened it

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