填空题 {{B}}第三节 短文理解 2{{/B}}
阅读下列短文，从[A]、[B]、[C]三个选项中选择一个正确答案。
{{B}} How Did Newtown Become a Very Clean Place?{{/B}}
Today Newtown is a very clean place. Many years ago, however (然面,不管怎样), there are millions of rats in Newtown. They attacked the cats and dogs. Sometimes a great number of them knocked down a man or a woman walking home at night. The rats were very large and they harmed many people.
The government (政府, 管理) ordered everybody to kill rats. Most were lazy (懒惰的), so they did not kill many. Then the government promised to pay some money for each dead rat. That made people very happy. They killed thousands of rats every day. A government officer put all the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man brought hundreds in one day.
After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people still brought many rats to the government officer. The government officer thought (认为,考虑) that people were stealing dead rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the government did not pay anymore money.
单选题 Newtown is a place which is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】根据开头Today Newtown is a very clean place。应该选[B] no longer dirty。no longer，不再。
单选题 When the government of Newtown first ordered people to kill rats, people were ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】正确答案是第二段第二句话Most were lazy，so they did not kill many 的改写。所以选C。too... to... 太……而不能。
单选题 The government's promise to give some money for each dead rat made people ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】文章提到，That made people very happy。
单选题 A deep hole was dug so that ______ could take any rats from the pile.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】根据最后一句话推断。把老鼠埋进洞里后，上缴的老鼠数量变少了，说明人们再不能stealing dead rats from the pile。
单选题 From the passage we can see that the government officer was ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】这个措施既达到灭鼠的目的，又替政府节约开支，当然是wise (英明的)了。