A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a packag

A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.”
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?”
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
【小题1】We may infer that the passage is most probably a .A．fairy tale (神话)B．Fable (寓言)C．science fictionD．news report【小题2】We could see from the passage that the mouse was .A．kind and warm-heartedB．well-informedC．good at cheating othersD．foolish and rude【小题3】 The underlined word “ingredient” (Paragraph 7) refers to .A．the mouseB．the pigC．the snakeD．the chicken【小题4】What can we learn from the story?A．Better safe than sorry.B．Traps are usually well disguised.C．To help others is just to save you.D．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all.B

(答案→)B 解析：文章通过一个小故事告诉我们有时候我们认为不可能的事情由可能会发生在我们的身上的，所以不要说与我无关。【小题1】文章中出现了很多动物而且动物之间还有对话，说明是个寓言故事。选B【小题2】推理题。这只老鼠发现危险以后，通知了所有人，说明他很善良且热心。故A正确。【小题3】猜词题：从倒数第二段的句子：Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. 可知ingredient 指的是chicken，选D【小题4】推理题：文章介绍一个老鼠发现一个夹鼠器，告诉大家，但是其他的动物认为和自己无关，但是后来它们都受到牵连，说明陷阱都是伪装的很好，选B

我明天再问问老师，叫他解释下这个问题